# SDMB VOTING \>\>\>NOW OPEN\<\<\< **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 28, 2000, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645 "2000-01-28T09:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/1 "2000-01-28T09:01:00Z")
Go ahead! To vote for someone for a category first see if they are nominated (listed under that category) if not NOMINATE THEM. Once they are LISTED (nominated) you can VOTE for them. Have at it kids, there are 120 categories! \\\[VOTE NOW](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions/vote.adp)\\\ * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/2 "2000-01-28T09:10:00Z")
Wow, Opal. You are truley amazing. You do some great work on that site. I’d like to thank you for everything you do for our little community. Though very much appreciated, I think you’re all too underappreciated. (I’m not trying to win votes, I just think you do some great work.) Keep it up! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/3 "2000-01-28T15:28:00Z")
Couple of things… I figure it will probably take about a week for the ballot to get really filled out, so please, nominate, nominate, nominate! You can nominate as many people as you want for each category! You can vote once a day. _Please_ check to see if the person you are nominating is already nominated in that category! I’ve already had to remove TWO duplicates! * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/4 "2000-01-28T15:36:00Z")
Vote once a day?! Wow! Why do I get the feeling somebody like “NewtonsApple” is gonna get more votes than anybody for “Mr. Congeniality”? ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/5 "2000-01-28T15:54:00Z")
**Opal** , I have a suggestion. I think it would be much more accurate if you had a week or two of nominations only, then close the nominations before voting. I say this because I would hate to vote for someone, then see another nominee that I wish I had voted for… Bad idea? ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/6 "2000-01-28T15:55:00Z")
Geez, 120 categories…assume at least three nominations per category…my brain all ready hurts…ah, well, here goes… * * * All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/7 "2000-01-28T16:24:00Z")
Ah, but Canthearya, since you can vote multiple times, you can correct that mis-vote by voting for the other person instead. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/8 "2000-01-28T17:18:00Z")
Hey, Opal, howcum I’m not on the TMHP even though I registered both as Flora and as Eve? Hmmmm? ---
**Author:** ![okatym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@okatym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okatym)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/9 "2000-01-28T19:30:00Z")
getting this to the top ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/10 "2000-01-28T19:35:00Z")
Yeah **David** , I see your point. I’m lazy. I only want to vote once. Too much information to look at more than once. ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/11 "2000-01-28T19:41:00Z")
Hey Opal- I don’t mena to sound like an ungrateful jerk, but I can’t seem to load the voting pages. Is it just a crush of traffic or is it my machine? Anyone else have this problem?? * * * -Frankie “Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?” -Bad Religion ---
**Author:** ![Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/12 "2000-01-28T19:47:00Z")
It seems to be loading awfully slowly for me as well, I’m not sure why…good thing I’m patient. (What, theres not “most patient” award?, sigh, oh well.) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/13 "2000-01-29T06:21:00Z")
Well, the ATMB categories don’t seem to accept nominations. The About Cecil’s Columns categories are all blank also, so I’m wondering if that’s happening there, too. * * * Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99. “[A]gainst stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.” --J.C.F.S. as quoted by H.M. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2000, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/14 "2000-01-29T06:35:00Z")
Nu - I know…it was slow at work for me, and now I can’t get on, period. I keep getting a “page not found” error, even when I reload. I got there ONCE today, so who knows what’s up. Opal? Any thoughts? * * * “You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!” - Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/15 "2000-01-29T07:02:00Z")
The pages take a long time to load because they are dynamic. Every time you load the page it is searching through a data file to created it (all the nominations) and writing the page on the fly. SOrry, but that was the only way to do it. The other way was to have everyone email me the nominations and have me update the voting pages 900 times a day, like I did last time. Not gonna happen. A lot of people who have registered for profiles don’t have them yet because I’ve been very sick this month and on top of that, very busy as well, so in my free time slogging through a huge pile of email and setting up profiles hasn’t appealed to me. That said, I’m considering just taking down the voting altogether because the pissy moderators don’t like that I announced it. They only want MPSIMS people to know about it, and what the fuck is the point of them if it’s only for MPSIMS people? God I’m sick of the administration of this site. * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/16 "2000-01-29T07:15:00Z")
Wow! I’m glad I’m not the only one having trouble getting into the voting pages! I thought it was my connection. I was having problems earlier tonight where I couldn’t open _any_ pages, but I was confused why now it only seemed to apply on Opal’s site. I think I’ll wait till I get back to school and my DSL connection. Hey Canthearya, why don’t you just wait until the last day to vote? Or wait a few weeks, even? Opal, no offense, honey, I appreciate all of the work you do for the TM Homepage, but you **know** (ok, _I_ know, maybe you disagree) that it wasn’t appropriate to post threads in every single forum about this. It really is a **MPSIMS** thing. * * * [Cessandra](http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/miscjunk/profile.html) I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids! ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2000, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/17 "2000-01-29T07:20:00Z")
Sorry if I seemed like I was complaining Opal…it’s been a LONG and rough week, and my tact has flown out the damn window. I was just curious about why it wasn’t loading…I’ll keep trying. Thanks, though!!! 🙂 (Side note: if you want help on the profiles, email me.) And WTF? Okay…yo mods! Deal! The awards are for EVERYONE! Hell, we’ve been having FUN with them today, including people from MPSIMS, GD, GQ…so um, lighten up? Please? Thank ya kindly. Besides…I’m still hoping to win “Chat Addict.” * * * “You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!” - Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2000, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/18 "2000-01-29T07:24:00Z")
No offense, but talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face… What good would taking down the voting thing do? It’s not like you’ll hurt the admins by doing so. The only one who’ll be hurt by it is you for your wasted efforts. So you posted where you shouldn’t have and got talked to/yelled at/whatever for it. It’s done and that’s that. Good to know for next time. * * * “I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/19 "2000-01-31T01:54:00Z")
Moving it out of page two land ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Carl\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Berry)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645/20 "2000-01-31T03:00:00Z")
121…The best, most honest, most intelligent. wittiest, my hero & the most frequent poster using WebTv…And the most looked down upon by computer snobs! * * * Zymurgist [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-voting-now-open/13645.md?page=2)