Am I happy that the vote has been swayed by Will sending out PMs instead of by reasoned debate? Not that much.
Just out of curiosity.. anyone reading this, that got a PM from me asking for support.. DID I TWIST YOUR FUCKING ARM? Did I threaten the life of your first born? Did I tell you I'd fucking kill you, if you didn't vote the way I wanted you to?
No. The answer to those questions would be no.
I asked, nicely, simply put, could I have your support. I did the same thing everyone else did, through Bar room threads. I just did it better, more thought out, and not forcefully. I even encouraged people to vote for WHO THEY WANTED TO WIN.. all I asked for, was the opportunity to win their vote; to earn their vote.
If I'd sent out a few thousand PMs and got Lou Thesz over Sting, would I be feeling majorly chuffed with myself? Bet your ass I would.
Chuffed? Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?
Memories foggy, but I think Irish did it for Vader last year.
If he did, I never received one. But Justin claims I'm twice as horrible with my Edge backing as Irish was with his Vader backing from a year ago.. so its entirely possible.
I'm pretty sure Becca decided to take the first round of the Tag Team popularity tournament too seriously and sent out PMs to eliminate JMT and myself.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA You can NOT be serious. Becca sent out PM's to eliminate people from a poster tournament?
Oh wait, didn't I do the exact same thing when HBKlunker got eliminated to The Eternal Ones in the last major drama filled tournament happened? I seem to recall Klunker ranting and raving over it, and Becca not talking to me for a while.
I have a bigger history with PMing people than I thought.
And I'm sure early on more than enough people were sending them out to try and promote their favourite in this thing.
All in all, everyone has tried gaining votes cheap(ly) in some form or fashion. Anyone with a "Fuck Edge" sig, anyone with tons of members on their Messenger systems, anyone who started a campaign thread for sakes.
All Will seems to have done is to do it better than anyone else, and it would be a bit difficult for me to criticise that without making something of a hypocrite of myself.
Damn skippy.
Honestly though, have I not ALSO been IN each and every Edge/Tournament thread.. fighting the good fight, and proving why to each and every individual who says otherwise, why Edge should win?? I think I have.
I've been the Heart and Soul of this Tournament.
If being a staff member lets you mass PM instead of spending hours sending out individual notes then I've got a problem, but that aside, nothing new has happened.
I didn't send out Mass PM's. That'd be insane. I sent out PM's to a handful of people. And I had to do them individually. I could've sent out "mass" PMs, had I taken the time to type in each and everyone's user names.. but it was easier to just click, paste and send individually.
Perhaps banning people from PMing for votes would be an answer, but that's a slippery slope.
Well thats a bit much. Especially considering Two of our Three main Admins have encouraged doing this. Unless I'm misunderstanding them.
Don't get me wrong. This result sucks and Will is incredibly lame for bringing it about. Unfortunately, he's also in the right. So I guess we jsut have to deal with it.
Sooo.. does this mean if Edge wins, I can't count on your support?
Well I'm crossing your name off my PM list, Mister!
I tried puttin Will Head as my headline. Didn't look right. Xfear offered me his anus for a Taker vote. I demand he be banned. -Don't get all serious on me.
