Then again it's also not like the people who vote in the contest besides the members here are just some random sampling of porn fans as a whole out there either. If it was I might have a slightly easier time excepting some of the things that happen.
I also happen to think that people that are senior members here SHOULD have much much more weighted influence on the voting than some person that just comes in to vote, (like by factors of dozens if not hundreds or thousands of times the other people and not what has happened the last few years where the dedicated members here get some token benefit) because they:
1. Have a much greater chance of trying to be objective in who they choose. (Although I'm sure there are people that wouldn't)
2. Are more likely to take the contest more seriously and feel more strongly about it rather than it being a mindless button push.
3. Are more loyal to FreeOnes and are a bigger part of it's community and care about FreeOnes more.
4. Probably know more about what they are talking about as far as the contestants go on average, and know about a wider range of people.
5. Are more likely to treat the contest as something that has actual objectives to achieve and not a mindless popularity contest to see whom can funnel the most fans through the internet to it.
6. Are more likely to even consider more than a few people at each position in the first place, unlike the people that just come on to vote for a contestant that told them to do so.
7. It's called the Miss "FreeOnes" contest so it makes sense things more closely associated with FreeOnes should have a lot more say.
I guess it's similar why I think most sports MVP awards, the biggest music, movie, and television awards, awards for art, heck even the other major porn awards are chosen by a relatively small elite group of people and not the general public, which I grudgingly have to admit is probably for a good reason. Sure there have certainly been times those things have got their winners wrong, and there are also times some of the voters in the system are unfairly biased, but it's an order of magnitude better than the alternative which is basically equivalent to running it like the Wild West or letting the inmates run the asylum.
I guess it all falls on what one feels the contest should be, a fun popularity contest, or a serious award that tries to pick the best people. Maybe in a way neither side is wrong, but I would rather have the later. I also hope people that want or think it should be the former, either contestants or the fans that vote for them, never ever try and pretend it's something serious or accurate. One side wants it to be the Oscars for general adult stuff, the other wants it to be a worse version of American Idol, except the contestants even have a huge factor is artificially funneling votes to themselves.
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