prior to my "campaigning" for locopoke there were 5 legitimate noms for him. you can look at the post time if you don't believe me. not putting those posts back would in my eyes be a campaign AGAINST locopoke. he was supposed to be in a well before so I don't see the big deal in this. we are nominating a user that just got unbanned after 2 years, so it's not like people wouldn't have questions for him. he's not a random user that we throw in as a joke. we actually want to see locopoke in the well.not mind boggling at all, especially since he was nominated previously
note that jabba's post nominating locopoke still exists as it was not painfully obvious to me that he was whipped into voting for locopoke
the myriad of other users who clearly belong to the same clique, however, all had their posts deleted
i've explained how this does and doesn't work, and in r1 i made it very clear i wasn't going to tolerate any more attempts to screw with the system
let's get the thread back on track
yes, you bastard, i'm this close, hahahasmirk
and so as I previously stated you put back every locopoke vote back before I posted, and that's it. unless you think I was responsible for those too? I highlighted #pokemon last night when the vast majority of the votes came in. the nominations before were hours ahead.my objection was to users having no idea who a user was and bandwagoning them, as evidently was occurring
"campaigning" in this sense is not a community driven process whereby people all pool in and find out more about a user they have an interest in, but a group of people shepherding users that may have absolutely no idea or care for the subject of their votes into voting for them
that is what is wrong with campaigning
the restriction isn't arbitrary at all -- it's common sense. trying to workaround it is abusingthe process
the whole facade about "he's not a random" user is, as i have stated before, not the point at all. i don't care whether locopoke goes in the well or not. i care about why, and i care about people abusing the process and wasting my and everyone else's time
yes, you bastard, i'm this close, hahaha
because bandwagonning isn't a problem...it has and will happened regardless and it never hurts anyone.clarified in well r1
if you openly admit that people do it, then how am i trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist? i'm trying to fix a problem that we apparently both know definitely exists