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popularity contests suck.
popularity contests started by nice people with good intentions suck even more, because if you complain that it's a popularity contest and thus sucks, you get frowned on and assumed to be bitter that you haven't been picked yet and your obvious attack of such a nice person's pure intentions means you clearly don't deserve to be anyway.
in conclusion?
popularity contests suck.

Comments

[hecatehatesthat.livejournal.com]

In all seriousness, and I swear I am not saying this to be nice because the only reason I have not made this exact same post is I don't want someone to go nominate me to make me feel better, I was going to rec you. I was going to say I often read the posts on my friends page without checking whose post I'm reading, and every day there's one I find I particularly interesting or relevant and I look to see who it is, and it's you.

But before I could do that I had to read through pages and pages of recs of people who were never ever me and I got too upset to play. But you were really the first name that came to my mind when I saw the post.

Also, even if I had been picked, and gone in and made my nomination, it would still be a popularity contest and this is the first time I've really seen that so clearly on LJ -- when other people have left claiming they didn't like the popularity-contestness of it, I thought they were exaggerating. Not that this makes me want to leave LJ, but, well -- popularity contests suck.

::huggles::

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I believe you, and thank you. I honestly hadn't even started considering who I might nominate. I quit before I got to that point.

But before I could do that I had to read through pages and pages of recs of people who were never ever me and I got too upset to play.

You need a hug; I need a hug. ::huggles::

Not that this makes me want to leave LJ, but, well -- popularity contests suck.

Yep. And even being told that I might have been nominated, the very fact that you got upset before you even reached that point reaffirms to me the suckiness, because how many other people won't be nominated now because their nomineers got depressed first? And how many of those nomineers would have found themselves nominated after someone else had seen their post and been reminded of their presence and how awesome they are? ...sucks.