Re: An Idea (Hopefully Non-offensive)

At 7:59 pm -0400 24/4/01, Muke Tever wrote:
>From: "andrew" <hobbit@...>
>> Does Conlang have a site on Yahoo?
>
>Yup.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/
>Only, it appears to be broken, as there are no new messages past mid-January.
>
>> If it does then the competors could
>> be listed at the polls on that site and list members with access to
>> Yahoo could vote for their prefered specimen.  As the votes are
>> publically listed and it appears to be one person one vote I would
>> suggest that this would be a fair and unbiased system.
>
>An interesting idea if it can still be done.
Yes, but some of us old'uns probably remember attempts in the past on this
list Auxlang of getting votes for favorite/preferred auxlangs.  It has
always, I think, lead to friction if not actual flames.

The last attempt IIRC was by Bob Petry who invited us to list our 5?, 6?
(don't recall the exact number) favorite auxlangs in order of preference.
He did this on both lists.  I didn't take part in the Auxlang vote; I
resented his using the Conlang list for this and purposely listed only
artlangs; my top three, I remember, were: Quenya, Tepa & Kinya.  I remember
the exercise did degenerate and there was some flaming.

No, I advise strongly against this.  This list is pretty congenial at
present; let's keep it like that.  If people want to go along with David's
competition for _fun_ (as he said), it still my personal opinion FWIW that
the judging be done off-list by an agreed panel of judges.




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