skirk

[isladar]

Holy fucking Skirk you are amazing

[isladar]

I keep trying to read the full thing but I can't stop laughing and I have to pee really bad

I'm fucking shudder laughing like the guy'll hear me or something oh god

[Callisto]

Skirk if you actually follow through and get this guy disqualified it'd be the greatest thing p. much ever done on the internet

[Charismatic]

Someone post pics of the thrad because I can't read it

[Stiker]

Skirk, well fucking done. That wall-o-text response just made my day.

[Mertron]

it would be funnier if someone else from bg entered the contest and we all voted for him instead, the guy will probably explode

[Charismatic]

I've been banned from general for months now with no explanation and without any reason as far as I know

[Conrad]

I figured people would get the reference

[Callisto]

I've been banned from general for months now with no explanation and without any reason as far as I know

I haven't personally seen anything about it or looked into it, but let's be real the likelihood that you did something to deserve it is high lol

[isladar]

I've been banned from general for months now with no explanation and without any reason as far as I know

I don't think I did it but if you say something nice to me I'll fix it

[isladar]

but let's be real the likelihood that you did something to deserve it is high lol

also this, but I'm bribeable

[Antithesis]

and Kazen and audi ruined it. Fuck.

[Callisto]

Chari

Hi everyone -

I hope it is ok for me to asking this here!

Last year a local radio station was holding a "Trick my Truck" contest. I made it to the final 3 but was not declared the winner. The contest is back! I need help from anyone willing so that I can get to the finals again this year.

Starting today you can go to their website voting page at http://www.thebig999coyotecountry.com/pages/8745532 and vote for my truck. My truck is number 59. (Link to the picture: http://www.thebig999coyotecountry.co...=2138544#imgXR)

You can vote once per day (on every computer you have). Voting will be done through the 16th and then on the 17th (which just happens to also be my birthday) they will announce the winner. I imagine that they will do it the same way where the 3 with the most votes online will be called to the station for them to make the final decision and announce the winner.

The only way I can get there is with your help!

Thanks in advance and Happy Holidays!

I am going to email the radio station and tell them you are using the internet to procure votes and you will be disqualified

I'm using the internet to get votes ... in an online voting contest .....

Don't think there was a rule saying you can't do that.

You're violating the spirit of the contest. We all live throughout the world so we may not even get your station, and we're complete strangers to you. I don't think they intended for people to stuff the ballot. If I were the station manager, I'd disqualify you in a second.

That quote is directly from the page. How can you say I am violating the spirit of the contest. The commercial on the radio says to send people to the website to vote for your truck, that's what I am asking for. If you don't want to help me (regardless of being a stranger to me or not) then don't, I won't lose any sleep because your opinion is that I am doing something that I should be disqualified for. If you chose to vote for someone else, then that is your option. I am not forcing people to vote for me, I'm not paying or offering anything in exchange for votes, I'm just asking in environments where there are people with internet access to vote. I don't know how you call that stuffing the ballot. If anything, they are using this contest to drive traffic to their website and by me putting out this request then I am giving them what they want while trying to win something that I want.

Bottom line ... I guess I'm lucky you are not the station manager.

Send PEOPLE to the website. As in, people you actually know, who have a vested interest in the results or at the very least have any idea what you're doing. We're not people on this site; in fact, we may as well not exist to you at all. You'll never meet us, you'll never see our names or faces in person...you're tampering with the votes and stuffing the ballot, and I'll make sure action is taken in this matter.

It's the principle of the thing. I was involved in a radio contest a few years ago, and I never solicited help from the internet to get votes because I found it was inherently wrong. This guy is doing something completely against what the radio station intended for him to do, and they deserve to know what's going on so that this doesn't happen in the future. Imagine what the honest people in the contest are feeling, having their chances de-legitimized by some guy who thinks he can cheat his way into victory.

If they handle the contest this year the same as last year then the online voting does not determine the winner. The radio show hosts actually pick the winner. Let's try this ....

Do you have to be here locally to vote? I am going to say no because, my mother doesn't live near me, she can't get a signal from this radio station so should she not be allowed to vote ... or rather if I ask her to vote is that cheating? I am going to say no, that is why the voting is online, so that people not in the area can also vote for someone. But then you're going to say, that's different because it's your mom and you know her.

Ok, granted, but why would the radio station want my mom going to their website?

Upon further investigation of the radio stations website, I noticed there is an option for people to listen online. Does this suggest that they would like people to go to their website and ... listen live? I think we can probably agree that it in fact does. But the radio station already broadcasts on an FM band, so why would they want people listening online? Oh you know I just thought of something ... maybe it's so that people can listen to their station when they are somewhere that doesn't not get the signal their towers send. So this tells me that my mom, while living in a completely different area could actually start listening to their station.

But why would the radio station want my mom to listen? I guess we have to dig a little deeper.

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark here and assume that radio stations make money from advertisers. But they need people to hear the advertisements so that they want to buy the stuff that advertisers are selling. It seems to me that the best thing the radio station could do for their advertisers is to get more people listening to their broadcast. But there is limited range on how far they can broadcast ... oh wait ... with the internet there is not a limited range. I think it's all starting to come together now.

If you could somehow find a way to get current listeners to put out their name (also known as word of mouth) and get more people to go to their website then some of those people may actually start listening. I got it! Hold a contest with online voting where the contestants give them the free website advertising by asking people to go to the website. Then maybe, just maybe a fraction of the people who go there and vote might start listening online and then they start to hear advertisements and then they buy stuff and it is a glorious day for the companies trying to make money.

Now all this is just my reasoning. There might even be a little logic in it. Maybe I am wrong, maybe you are right, maybe the radio station doesn't want me to send people there, even if I have never and probably will never meet them. Maybe there should also be a rule that I cannot have anyone vote for me unless I have physically met them in a social environment at least 3 time in the last year and prior to the start of the contest. Maybe I should not be allowed to ask anyone to vote. I mean is it cheating if I ask my wife to also vote on her computer? Maybe it should be random voting by only people who go there with no idea who owns any of the vehicles entered.

I'll tell you what, you go ahead and do everything you can to get me disqualified. Send your emails, get the number and call ... whatever it takes. I understand that businesses like this radio station probably get tons of junk email sent to them everyday. My biggest fear is that your concern over me "cheating" doesn't get heard. So let me offer this help to you. Just in case somehow the contest ends and they didn't get a chance to hear what you have to say. If I can get to the finals then I will thank the people from BG Forums for helping me to get there. Yeah, that's a radio plug for the forums. Then if I have done something wrong, they can announce my disqualification right then.

But you will have to take my word on it that I would actually do that ... oh my gosh, wait ... you don't have to take my word on it because you could actually go to the website and listen live right through your computer as it happens. It's an amazing world we live in ... what will they think of next?

tl;dr -
My asking for votes is free advertising for the website

[isladar]

and Kazen and audi ruined it. Fuck.

why we can't have nice things

[Mertron]

nah, fuck all y'all niggas

[Charismatic]

I'm dead serious. I hadn't even posted in general when I lost access to it. Also, I lost access to it back when I lost access to IAS, both seemingly for no reason as I hadn't really posted much in either.

[Charismatic]

isladar restored my access to IAS but not general... that's it.

[Charismatic]

Also, good work skirkman.

[Lucienne]

That thread was amazing.

[isladar]

I don't think I did it but if you say something nice to me I'll fix it

^