OT Shameless Self Promotion - VictoriaWinters.net

[victoriawinters]

Hi all my friends:

    My Dark Shadows fan site, http://victoriawinters.net/ was invited to compete in the Mystical Realms Website Competition.  I have been competing for five weeks already.  I won the team level competition.  Now I'm in the Championship round.  This is the last round.

    Please vote for me at Alchemist Championship Round.  Voting is from Monday to Friday 12 AM ET to 10 PM ET (10 PM PT to 7 PM PT).  If you are available to do so, please vote everyday.  You will be looking to vote for Victoria Winters.Net.  Fill out your e-mail address and click the "Place Your Vote" button.

    Thank you so much for your friendship and for your support of my website.

[Midnite]

Here's the correct link for The Mystickal Realms Site Competition--

http://twopagans.com/champrounds/alchemist.html

[victoriawinters]

Thanks hon!

[victoriawinters]

Thanks everyone for voting.  It's a really tight race.  Today (04/26), the other top contender and I tied.  This means they are only 9 votes ahead!  That's it.  I have a real fighting chance especially if you vote.

Please help me close this gap and make it 20 votes ahead tomorrow.  Based on previous week's scores, Wednesday is when the scores traditionally dip. Please if you haven't voted yet, please vote.  The voting link is in my signature.

Please be sure you vote during voting hours so your vote is counted.  They are 12AM ET to 10PM ET.

luv, victoriawinters

[Connie]

Your numbers seem screwed up at the voting site.  They're not added right.
Plus when I vote and refresh the page the number hasn't changed.
Will this stuff correct itself??

 

[victoriawinters]

They are messed up.  I've written the team leader about it.  There is also a contraversery swirling within the competition.  There were several instances of what appears to be duplicate votes.  This occurs when family members use the same computer or when they are voting from an office behind a router.  The same IP address gets logged.

It's a bit unsettling to me since I went from 94 to 2.  But, hopefully it will at least be added correctly later this evening and many of my votes will be restored.  (Cross your fingers.)

In the meanwhile, please still vote and we'll see what will happen later.

[victoriawinters]

So, the vote tally is more normal now.  Apparently, two votes were found to be from the same IP and they were eliminated.  But, hey it's not so bad.  I'm tied.  At least as of yesterday, I'm not behind.

Thanks everyone for voting!

luv, victoriawinters

[victoriawinters]

Hi everyone!

Today is the last day of voting this week.  As of yesterday, the scores show me 26 votes behind the leader.  It's a tall order to catch up and take a lead but I know DS Fandom is up to the task.  Let's make it a day to remember!

http://twopagans.com/champrounds/alchemist.html

Thanks again to all who voted and will vote.

luv, victoriawinters

[Connie]

Helpful hint....

If anyone's still stuck with a dial-up connection, and you have more than one access number you can call, you can vote when you're online with one number, then hang up, call the other number and vote again with a different email address.  My access numbers give me totally different IP's.

 

Hey -- I missed voting a couple of times this week so I'm just making up for it.   

[victoriawinters]

I hear no evil, smell no evil and look no evil.  (Will post smily later.  At work.)

[Connie]

Hey...I don't see or hear no evil either.  (I'm just an innocent babe in the woods - out to help my fellow man in whatever small, humble way I can).  Heh heh

[Mysterious Benefactor]

And apparently, along with being deaf, dumb and blind    neither of you has any shame either. 

I suppose winning legitimately and/or losing graciously are terribly passe nowadays, huh? 

[Connie]

 

"Oh listen to him.  Just listen to him..."
                                      - Carl Collins, Episode # 706

What - one extra vote I didn't get around to casting this past week?

-Shameless, shamefull
 CLC
 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

What - one extra vote I didn't get around to casting this past week?

-Shameless, shamefull

And what excuse do you imagine the other people still stuck with a dial-up connection might want to use? I know: their dog/cat/bunny (fill in the appropriate pet  ) pulled the computer's plug out of the wall while they were voting the first time, so they're not sure if it actually went through. 

But then, silly me, the title of this topic DOES contain the word "shameless" - what was I thinking? 

Nevermind...

[Connie]

MB....

Could you kill this thread from where I did that stupid "helpful hint" post?  It just occurred to me, you got certain types of people online who like nothing better than to cause trouble for people they decide they don't like, etc.
This competition appears to be the type where contestants are actively campaigning to get votes wherever they can.  It's not just a simple "visit these websites and vote for your favorite" type of contest.  Anyway, I certainly don't wish to promote anything unethical.  I discovered that thing with access numbers a few weeks ago and just shouldn't have mentioned it.

-CLC
Still shameless
but don't feel the need to make excuses
about much of anything actually.