ah oh, Wade, was it you or was it me?

I don’t know who put up the post for the nomination but this morning I followed a hit in statcounter on Radical back to Bloodhound.

Wow, cool, it’s been nominated for this little contest, so I tell my staff, hey vote for me. Then as peruse the morning forums, I post, Hey I need your vote, and move on with my day. Late this afternoon, I check back to see who won and find this announcement:

“The People’s Choice Award voting was spampaigned again this week, and it’s really put me off my stride. It’s plausible that the folks — never more than one a week — who are spamming their address books don’t stop to think that they are cheating. But if they did stop to think, I don’t see how they could avoid the conclusion. It a simple idea: “How would I feel if I were bested not by someone who worked harder and did better, but who had a larger warm network?” No one has any trouble identifying injustice when they’re on the receiving end. In any case, I’m not going to name a People’s Choice winner this week. And starting next week I’ll put would-be spammers on notice every week.”

..and I thought what the hey?

Then I thought, oh oh, I posted this on two notary forums and one abstractor forum and you know what? There’s a whole lot of notaries and abstractors who read those forums. Trust me I know. I see the hits on my site. Ok, so I’m wondering am I the bad guy? My motives were pure because I think the more people who are in the biz who get driven to a site to read, the better and I consider the content of the post itself the contest.

In fact, I think participation by these two groups in voting would be a great way to bring attention to the subject. So, did I ruin a contest by trying to focus attention on the lousy treatment of notary signing agents and abstractors?

Well, then I started to chuckle because I recalled mentioning the contest to my friend C in an e-mail around lunch time and my friend C is very competitive and her husband works for a pretty huge corporation and her son is at Penn State and then I thought, NO, she wouldn’t, but I DO know my friend and she works networks like a fiend. So, I truly don’t know if I’m the contest crappo creep but I might be. If so, I humbly apologize.

I did get a good chuckle out of thinking about C tooling about the web raising a ruckus.

And whoever did nominate that post, thank you, because the message is heartfelt and you gave it some more life and that’s a good thing.

Wade, on the other hand was selling sex. I’ll bet his post has WAY more hits than mine, huh Todd?