February 2014 POTM - LOVE

[Coral Hoarder]

Originally Posted by Coasting

Mm nope you were right the first time. I see plenty of amazing photos get passed by for a photo taken by a popular member. It's a shame, some stunning stuff gets posted in these by lots of different people.

hav to agree here its just how it is tho

[kien]

Originally Posted by scott tang

hav to agree here its just how it is tho

How do you guys define "popular" around here? Post count? Reputation count ? I need to know because I want to be popular too!

While I totally agree that there are people who will vote for their friend or simply for the person they like more, not everyone does. Like you said though, in part, it's sort of the nature of the beast. Really no different than more important voting systems like say, an election. In any given election there will be people who will vote for their friend or just simply a candidate they like more rather than the candidate they might actual feel is more qualified based on the quality of their platform.

I guess what I'm getting at is that no one should feel that their submission is wasted simply because they feel that someone more "popular" than them is going to get more votes. History has proven that this is simply not true. Sphelps is very UNPOPULAR and he has won several POTMS. lastlight is very popular (based on his post and reputation count) and he consistently loses POTM.

[Coral Hoarder]

if people know and like you then you popular i dont want to start any arguements as thats never the intention but there was just a pic of a tank a few potm ago just the tank you couldnt see any corls or fish but it was the member that posted it that got an incredable amout of votes for a pic you couldnt see any thing in

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by kien

lastlight is very popular (based on his post and reputation count) and he consistently loses POTM.

I'm out to lose another.

I love cleanliness.

[Magickiwi]

Originally Posted by Coasting

Mm nope you were right the first time. I see plenty of amazing photos get passed by for a photo taken by a popular member. It's a shame, some stunning stuff gets posted in these by lots of different people.

Yeah, that's wrong. I won for last month and nobody likes me. Sure there were almost no pictures entered but I like to think I just intimidated the competition away.

On topic: I've got some little boyfriends for my Allardi next week so we'll see if there's any love there before I enter one.

<BTW Where is my POTM icon?>

[kien]

Originally Posted by Magickiwi

<BTW Where is my POTM icon?>

That is a question that I unfortunately can not answer.

[Delphinus]

Sorry, that's on me. I'll have it fixed before end of day.