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Reist wrote:But how many times did you vote for yourself?

>9000. But only one of them got recorded. I assume Tungsten voted, and Generic said he did. I'd be curious to know who the others were, actually.

I was one

Hmmm ...

Just out of curiosity (to any SF'ers reading this), who all votes for themselves in fights? I've been wondering this for a while (since I always kind of assumed it wasn't done).

ps - so if what you say is true, Quoons - we actually got the same amount of votes (from other songfighters). I guess there was no reason for either of us to gloat after all!

I do sometimes. Often, by the time I vote, the shine's already off the apple for me. I voted for my own "Walking the Border," but I'm pretty sure I didn't vote for my "Elegy for Industry," "Love Me a Little Bit More," or my "We Keep Them Alive."

Used to vote for myself every week.

When it was one vote per fight I voted for myself only if Melvin wasn't in it. Now that I can vote for all the good ones then I vote for myself all the time.

Rone Rivendale wrote:When it was one vote per fight I voted for myself only if Melvin wasn't in it. Now that I can vote for all the good ones then I vote for myself all the time.

SO the only person who's ever been better than you is Melvin?

Under the new system I vote for myself when I think I'm in the top tier. I did not vote for myself very often under the single vote system.

I vote for myself if after listening to all the other songs, I still think mine is the best/among the best.

To date, I think I've only voted for my own song once.

I have never voted for myself. Coming up on 70 fights as Paco, and over a dozen as whoever, still no votage. I'll be glad to the day I have the best song but man, what a slow week that'd have to be.

Paco Del Stinko wrote:I have never voted for myself. Coming up on 70 fights as Paco, and over a dozen as whoever, still no votage. I'll be glad to the day I have the best song but man, what a slow week that'd have to be.

Yeah - same here.

I don't vote for you either.

Well, maybe sometimes....

I do always vote for myself though in the multi-vote world. If it wasn't something I'd vote for - I wouldn't enter it. Though I must admit that my Green 11 only just scrapped in. It is one of the very few entries I have put in that I didn't think was the greatest song ever written the moment I finished it.

Paco Del Stinko wrote:I have never voted for myself. Coming up on 70 fights as Paco, and over a dozen as whoever, still no votage.

Me either. I think that voting for yourself is pretentious. But posting that you don't ever vote for yourself is also pretentious. So everyone here is pretentious.
....tomorrows word is ostentatious.

Tomorrow's word is "apostrophe".

Spud wrote:Tomorrow's word is "apostrophe".

Stop being so ostentatious.

I vote for myself if I like my song enough. It's all very subjective anyway, so what the heck. So far there's been one song that I submitted that I didn't vote for. I'm sure you can figure out which one that was if you check the archives. I'm not planning to submit another song that I don't like, so it's likely I'll be voting for all songs I'm going to be submitting in the future. Unless I change my mind, of course.

Mr.Ray wrote:I don't vote for you either.

That won't stop me from loving you. C'mere, you big lug, you!

B.J.Sangwich wrote: But posting that you don't ever vote for yourself is also pretentious.

Is it? I was just answering a question. Although I have pointed it out in the past. However, I might argue that bragging that you have the best song in the world may be a bit more pretentious. Or I might not. When I write the best song in the world, we'll just have to see.

P.S. - I would be thrilled if I wrote something that won. But, since I'm close, I am secretly hoping to break a certain record around here. Doesn't mean I'll try and write crappy songs. Rather, just stick to tried and true methods and let everything fall into place naturally.

I voted for myself. Once. So that means 9 of my votes were real and 1 was a lie. Don't stone me for doing something obvious. It's not cheating. I mean who do you think Obama voted for. Wait... can a presidential nominee vote at all? Let's argue about that instead.

Nah, it's not cheating. Unless you somehow multi-vote. And yes, presidential nominees vote. Most elections usually feature a photo-op of the candidate coming out of the voting both early in the morning or stuffing a ballot in a box.

Reist wrote:so if what you say is true, Quoons - we actually got the same amount of votes (from other songfighters). I guess there was no reason for either of us to gloat after all!

Sure, burst my little bubble.

I guess I just assumed that everyone voted for their own songs. I learnded something today.

I was going to say this on a daily roll call or something, but now I see everyone's talking about it here. Last fall when I started I always voted for my own song along with all the good ones. With Green Eleven I've graduated to not voting for myself. Yay upgrade!

Sometimes, I listen to the other songs in the fight, and I think, "Boy, I really suck" and I don't vote for myself. Sometimes I feel like I'm holding my own against the rest of you and I do.

ElaineDiMasi wrote:I was going to say this on a daily roll call or something, but now I see everyone's talking about it here. Last fall when I started I always voted for my own song along with all the good ones. With Green Eleven I've graduated to not voting for myself. Yay upgrade!

That means that Elaine's most excellent Green Eleven and my Green Eleven got exactly the same number of non-self votes. I didn't need to feel better about myself, but I do anyway.

I don't vote for myself. I like to see what others think. I'd feel weird if I beat someone by 1 vote, and I voted for myself.