# Vote for The Dope!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-the-dope/111063>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 27, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-the-dope/111063 "2002-05-27T17:27:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-the-dope/111063/1 "2002-05-27T17:27:18Z")

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The Webby Awards is asking for people’s opinions of good websites.

I vote for StraightDope in several categories.  
You?

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**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-the-dope/111063/2 "2002-05-27T18:43:06Z")

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Do you have a link to a site where I can vote?

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**Author:** ![Ozz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Ozz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ozz)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-the-dope/111063/3 "2002-05-27T21:00:39Z")

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My favorite site has to be [Zap2It.com](http://Zap2It.com), which has the best TV listings. I use it every day, because it’s more accurate than the newspaper, and 1 click get a real outline of a movie. Not the plot, but the year and main actors and 1-line description, genre and a star rating. That’s exactly the right info.  
Plus it’s got everyting on a well formatted grid with lots of sorting & selecting options.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-the-dope/111063/4 "2002-05-28T21:06:17Z")

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I think this came up a few weeks ago, though I’m leery of testing the hamsters with a search at this time of day to provide a link.

And that’s the rationale for **not** voting for the SDMB, no matter how much we love it: until this place is able to translate poster enthusiasm into income for the site, a huge wave of new posters is a potential catastrophe for a site that is as slow as this one is, so much of the time.

Otherwise, I’d vote for the SDMB early and often.

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-for-the-dope/111063/5 "2002-05-29T01:26:10Z")

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RTFirefly  
Agreed. We det many new members just by word of mouth and people just stumbling on us. I don’t think we need a target painted on us.