AND: Utterly humorless blog pitches a hissy fit!
Congrats Ann: you you have now undermined if not destroyed the relevance of the Weblog Awards as a contest by readers about content and are, as such, have [sic] done a dissservice [sic] to the organizers of the Weblog Awards who have put a lot of time and energy into organizing this contest and you are forever corrupting this contest.Ooh, the great and somber Weblog Awards! Corrupted! Disserved! Or should I say disssssssssserved? What a snake I am! Ooh, organizers put time and energy into creating such a lofty institution and here I am, fooling around. Oh, noooo!
And I love the way you perceived all that after it became painfully obvious that you were losing abysmally to the the "lady" blogger your blog attacked in demeaning and dishonest terms. And now you're all about indignant righteousness? What a laugh!
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And punished sounds much better than merely defeated.
Or can I suggest trounced, or annilihated, or this little jingo..."hit em with a stick, hit em with a broom, f em f em up, boom , boom, boom!
It looks like you're winning in a runaway. At least for today.
you are so like not going to lose
Good Lord, you're pathetic.
Hurray for centrism of any sort including heliocentric lunacy of every kind.
I d-did vote for you.
One only needs to look at the multiple nominations for the Daily Kos, and the vote totals for the Daily Kos and the other nutsroots blogs, to see how relevant these awards are.
It's simply a self serving popularity contest organized by the host that rewards the blogs with the most fanatical followers.
These awards are more of a joke than a high school student council election, and about as important.
Someone called Jimmy Carter a "humorless scold" recently. I thought how appropriate.
From the looks of it (at TPM) there must be a bit of that humorless stuff going around.
To paraphrase:
"You ruined our [weblog contest]! You ruined everything, ruiner!"
It's roont!
These awards are more of a joke than a high school student council election, and about as important.
Yeah, but they have such a nice banner to stick on your blog for a year if you win. :)
I looked at the explanation for the mysterious process by which nominees become finalists and it turns out it's just whichever blogs the guy personally thinks should be finalists, including blogs that weren't even nominated, with a preliminary step done by volunteers to make it appear there was more to it than that. I doubt they even looked at all the nominees, particularly in the less-paid-attention-to categories.
But I guess it's all just meant to be fun.
Maybe they should have categories that give awards for content. Like, "Most Influencial Post of the Year." Or, "Funniest Interblogospherical Squabble," "Most Dishonest Blogger", "Biggest Shill".....
And is it right to have some regular blogs up against massive community sites that each contain hundreds of blogs, like Huffington Post and DailyKos?
I don't know who is worse, Althouse for the way she is frenetically trolling for votes in this pathetic little vanity contest, or her sycophants, who seem so invested in the outcome.
I am comforted, though, by the small number of total votes, despite Althouse's hyperactive promotion. Since she and her closest minions have been probably voting 10 times a day on various computers, that leaves a very small number of people who actually voted spontaneously for this batshit crazy partisan.
Wow, those TMV folks really need to get a sense of humor.
you are forever corrupting this contest
Hee hee...I especially like the "forever." Long after your students are dead and your scholarship forgotten, you will be remembered as the corrupter of the Weblog Awards.
Let's vote, everybody--help Ann achieve immortality!
For a number of reasons, I'm going through and looking at many of the blogs nominated in many categories. Not one that I've looked at doesn't campaign for votes, and some of them far more ostentatiously than Ann here.
(And no, DTL, I haven't looked at them all, so if the statement I'm about to make is contradicted by an exception I missed, that does not make me a "liar.")
The point of awards like this is not to confer merit or popularity. It's to promote the business. A rising blogosphere lifts all blogs. The "controversy" undoubtedly helps.
I don't know who is worse, Althouse for the way she is frenetically trolling for votes in this pathetic little vanity contest, or her sycophants, who seem so invested in the outcome.
Lots of people are obsessed with this blog. Althouse is. Her fans are. You are.
John - You're not supposed to look at the other blogs.
You vote for Ann. That's it. The others are crap.
Trust me - I've read them.
LoafingOaf said...
"Yeah, but they have such a nice banner to stick on your blog for a year if you win. :)"
And not just for a year! The so-called Moderate Voice still has their "sticker" from the 2004 weblog awards on their masthead. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does clash a little with their newly-winted "we don't actually want to win" demeanor.
I'm not obsessed with this blog, but I love the spirit of competition. Crush away!
Burkean Reflections
Oh puh-lease!
This is the way that the Weblog Awards have always been run...you vote early, you vote often.
Bloggers campaign. Some of the campaigning is hilarious! It certainly doesn't forever (oh, the drama!) taint or ruin anything, you pantywaists!
You have a hefty lead so I voted again, verifying that my first vote for you was not a hanging chad
I just came back from reading the post on TMV, and I noticed that they posted 2 of my comments on this blog. Does that make me famous?
I find this really funny. First, the original author obviously completely misread Ann's post, having failed to detect the obvious humor. As I believe that he is Dutch, and English is not his first language, I'm willing to cut him some slack here. But, his refusal to even acknowledge his mistake when others there point it out to him is funny.
His fellow contributors then fail to give him a "heads up" about the humor involved in it before he digs himself (and them) into a deeper hole. Instead, they "rally 'round the flag." (Some might say they were "circling the wagons" in preparation for a siege.)
Nothing like a good blogwar to goose circulation, I guess. Absolutely hilarious.
Not that the facts are too relevant at this point, but the awards actually encourage concerted efforts by blogs to drive their readers to vote daily.
Tracy Flick. Ha! Perfect.
Wow, are you really a law professor?
My mouth hung agape all the way through this post ... not before on the internets have I watched someone degrade themselves so robustly in pursuit of a meaningless award.
For the love of God, please pull yourself together.
Ti-Guy, Eric, Neil, etc.: How can you survive with so little sense of humor? It must hurt.
How can you survive with so little sense of humor? It must hurt.
This type of childish retort is really age-inappropriate for a tenured law professor in her late 50's, don't you think?
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