tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115556433372076865.post4996251837645373092..comments2022-03-08T01:26:13.872-08:00Comments on <a href="https://votermedia.blogspot.ca">Votermedia Democracy Blog</a>: UBC AMS VFM voting resultsMark Lathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05570922352903867246noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115556433372076865.post-6946672067406192862009-02-12T09:34:00.000-08:002009-02-12T09:34:00.000-08:00Thanks Maria and Justin for your thoughtful commen...Thanks Maria and Justin for your thoughtful comments. I helped tally the votes, and I think 6379 is the total vote count in the election + VFM voting, but many of those didn't vote in VFM. My count of VFM votes was 3820.<BR/><BR/>But more important than the hard numbers is subjective assessment of the value VFM adds to the AMS. I hope we get more comments about that.Mark Lathamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05570922352903867246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115556433372076865.post-53252147776010831262009-02-10T16:52:00.000-08:002009-02-10T16:52:00.000-08:00I think there are some other interesting aspects t...I think there are some other interesting aspects to VFMs. First of all, I feel like this year in particular, people have been trying to get their friends out voting for them, and some blogs have built-in groups of support, which would definitely help in a contest. I know I appealed to my friends to vote this year, and I know that authors for other blogs asked random people on the street to vote for them as well. Thus, I'm not sure if the trends really carry much meaning, aside from showing who puts in a lot of effort to either advertise their blogs and who has built in friends who would vote. Is this fair? I'm not sure. I don't think there's necessarily a correlation between effort of blogging and winnings, or even causation to be drawn from there. If you look at some of the VFM entries that won money, they wrote little about the election, and won more money than those VFMs that did a good job with covering the election.Maria J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10340711711063776117noreply@blogger.com