What are the MOTM rules?

Is it ethical and acceptable to "rally everyone to vote"?

Like most people here, we are perfectly capable of voting and do not appreciate "spam-type" of posts telling us what we should vote for, when we should vote, and what we should do and whom we should promote.

It seems like a form of "mind control", which, personally, I find offensive.

In other words, community building is "a great thing", but there is also "a small thing" called ethics and not spamming :-)

@imported silkroad: point taken and I apologize for any offense, certainly not intended.

As not all members are aware that motm exists, or that their favorite mod has made it to the list, messages like mine help serve as a means to inform. As the original message was posted almost 2 weeks ago and has been bumped up over ~2 pages, there are a number of visitors/users of the Mod that have not / will not see it.

I personally was excited to see my favorite Mod doing so well in the polls and wanted to share the good news with the community that helped get it there. My post was intended to be a satirical rally (hence the "in all seriousness"). The humor was apparently lost in the delivery.


As far as ethics goes, I don't personally believe that 2 posts in 2 weeks for a contest that runs 4 weeks justifies calling to question ethics, but that is just one guys opinion.

To answer your question, as outlined in the rules, the coder of the Mod (ie. Pedigree) is not allowed to solicit nominations. If the Mod makes it to the poll, the Coder is allowed to post one link within the Mod thread. There are no guidelines limiting the community.

To remove any confusion or distraction, however, my post above has been updated to reflect its original intent.

And to add, Ive not solicited any votes, here or on the stopforumspam.com (where I could do so, within the rules) site or asked anyone to do the same as I dont want to risk any infringement and get removed

Shall we leave it at there and wait to see what happens at the end of the month?

agreed.

As someone who comes to this board infrequently, I was glad that the MOTM info was posted in this thread, otherwise I would not have known about it. This mod has made my life so much easier and I was very happy to vote for it and the coder.

I won't say anymore as I realize you are trying to let this die down (and understandably so) but I did have to say that I, for one, am glad it was mentioned, and mentioned more than once. :)

Either way, pro or con, Im extremely flattered that I got nominated with thanks to the people using the mod, and very thankful that people have voted for it as well.

Better...

It takes away from "the greatest" of the mod when it is reduced to a "get out the vote" cheap contest.

When people like the mod, they can easily vote on it, but to overhype it like some cheap "let's make sure we win" simply distorts the process.

I like this mod -- but frankly it starts to look "cheap" when people find is necessary to spam the board with this type of overt marketing. That is why I posted. It is simply offensive to be told how to act and behave by others.

Just let the mod win, or not, based on the merits of the mod, not some spam / overtly influence the vote effort.

Then you can be proud you did the right and ethical thing.

Thanks.

I am not a sheep. Being told to vote does not make me vote. And frankly I do not feel like anyone on this thread did tell me to vote.

Im going to try to push this thread back to what its here for, to support the mod and to discuss the various painful ways in which we would all like spammers to die in.

agreed?? :)

Agree...... and sorry for the sidetrack.