I just came back from 2 overseas trips….

Congratulations on you winning the 2nd Prize under the “Most Popular Choice Award” ?

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Regards View all comments by Xwings

Cheers! View all comments by Shaun

Shaun: Hi Shaun, it’s great to see a first comment from you here! Most of us contestants and voters understand the organiser’s rationale of voting everyday. I don’t agree or disagree, though I do prefer if it’s a one-off vote rather than daily. Most people would probably vote for their friends rather than the better-quality blog. That’s why it’s great that there’s the 70% judges panel in place to even things up, unlike the Idol competitions where 100% of the results depend upon votes. Good luck to you in your rallying for votes!

Chiun AS: Wow, it feels awesome to have a longtime reader chiming in with a comment once in a while. I love that your family find my blog to be of value. It spurs me on to write even better posts! Thanks for the votes and your support! View all comments by Veron

I agree with you on having only one vote per person or IC number due to the possibility of exploits, especially from what I see how votes can be casted just by emails as an identifier. In all, I think we can have that in question to the organizers on the autherticity of votes, particularly whether they are actually tied down to respective valid living persons.

On your point on daily voting, when you come to think about sometimes, one of the secondary objectives of the award is the need for publicity, let be for the sponsors. Omy is a relatively new site, so that is maybe why I see the call for the daily voting stand to encourage re-visits, let be traffic.

To further elaborate on that, I believe it goes to be the same as what you see in reality shows, let be the superband or idol series. People can vote as many times as they want, sometimes people don’t vote for who the better singer is, but it boils down to the amount of supporters or just being “hey that idol’s from our county!” which in my personal opinion too is rather unfair as it fails to credit for the amount of work we actually put in.

Nevertheless, good to see you in the running, good luck on your side as well. Cheers! View all comments by Shaun

But let’s look at it this way: Sincere supporters wouldn’t mind spending 30 seconds each day casting a vote for their favorite blogs. After all, some of us spend hours painstakingly writing each post. What’s 30 seconds to people that genuinely want to support us right?

The biggest gripe I have with this competition is that anyone can simply use a fake email address and be able to vote successfully. Hence theoretically, any blog would be able to win, irregardless of the quality or the number of supporters. As long as they can create a vote margin big enough, the judges panel wouldn’t even matter anymore.

And it would be a real shame if the few dedicated bloggers who consistently churn out quality post after post lose out in the competition this way. View all comments by Veron

Miss Qian: Thank you so much for your support and words of encouragement. It means so much to me!

jeanjeanhe: The registration is still open, if a little confusing. You just need to enter your email address and a password. Then remember this password to vote again the next day! View all comments by Veron

drop by to say hello :) hope u r doing fine. yup. View all comments by TeReNcE