On 25 Apr 2007 09:04:04 -0700, gtrosper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Apr 22, 3:30 pm, "Peter H. Coffin" <hell...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> *unofficial*
>>
>> Look dude, the rules have been established and essentially abided by
>> for about seven years, with no one ever thinking that these were even
>> unclear. At the bottom of nearly all of the posts has been an email
>> address of where questions could be sent. Absent questions, the rules
>> and precedent are obviously clear. Now, two commitees decide that those
>> rules and precedents obviously don't apply to them and it never even
>> occurs to them to ask? No, the simple answer is that they didn't *want*
>> to be noticed by the steering commitee. They didn't *want* to ask and
>> be told "No, you can't." They specifically chose spaces they *knew* the
>> steering commitee didn't frequent. They didn't "pre-announce" or
"gather
>> opinion" on the afterglow mailing list, they didn't do it here, they
>> didn't do it on the two big LJ communities, they didn't do it on Tribe.
>> They *hid*, because they EXPECTED that it would be considered against
>> the rules, but thought that they'd have something to gain by doing it.
>>
> That's an assumption. Did you ask either committee if *hiding* was
> their intention?
Sure it's an assumption. Whether they intended *hiding* or not isn't
germane to the issue of bid disqualification. It sure looks damned
strange, though, because of below.
> I could just as easily assume that Dallas and Hollywood were over-
> enthusiastic about forulating their bids and used MySpace as a tool to
> get people involved in helping to formulate said bids.
>
> If a committee is going to take the time to bother creating a bid by
> speaking with hotels and entertainment venues, it only makes sense
> they would want to *win* the bid, thus Hollywood's "register to vote"
> blog on MySpace. Nefarious ulterior motives? Highly doubtful.
It only makes sense that they'd also push this information out on
official channels, where people that attend regularly look for it.
That's your real core of word-of-mouth spread, and the people you don't
have to coax into going. But... nothing. No word at all. Nothing on
LiveJournal. Nothing on the Afterglow mailing list. Certainly nothing
here.
--
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the
sleeping world."
--Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game
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