SerenityDay: Change the Date? VOTE NOW
POSTED BY: Hera
UPDATED: Monday, May 1, 2006 09:38
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The votes are in.
14 people will buy the DVD on June 23.
31 people will buy the DVD on Sept. 30.
We're gonna kick some Hollywood ass!
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Hey.
nice one succatash...we are sooo going to get our sequel now. :P(kidding.... I know it aint the aim..) anyways...11th Hour, sorry yeah... it was a bit confusing. Then include me for sept 30th(but mention that it will include a small sales spike on june 23rd). Because I know and believe... people really want to do it on june 23rd, so i say let them. Because if i try to say"no dont do that"... then they will get antsy and tell me to sod off. Its only the first thing in the campaign anyways.
Prakash
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I vote both. Why the hell limit ourselves to one day, why not two?
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11th and Kaele - you 2 need to come together and not slag each other with votes and rhetoric. I don't care how many votes there are or how accurately they are counted... I remember how the domain name "fireflyday.com" won in a landslide 155 to 34, but it didn't actually win, it got rolled over for other names, "the people have spoken and they're wrong." Fansite voting has proven unreliable. And these votes are such a small percentage of the users here, a quick tally, about 50 total votes representing 20,000 users?! More important than the voting... you need to get together, lock yourselves in an e-mail room and get a consensus, a plan that serves both dates. You 2 are clearly the guiding forces behind both dates - come together and do us all proud, pull something positive out of this division - please!
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Fireflyday was decided against in the end because it did not, in practicality, reflect goals that we were trying to achieve.
Democracy has to be balanced with common sense.
Common sense would dictate not doing something that's going to cause a rift between the various fandoms, and that's exactly what we're headed into.
(Yes, it recieved the landslide of votes on the website, but not here on the board, oddly enough. I also suspect that there were people using multiple votes on the website.)
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
11th and Kaele - you 2 need to come together and not slag each other with votes and rhetoric.
"Slag"? I do admit to calling Kaele on things she's said in her posts that were not correct. Someone in the position of leader is held to a higher level of conduct, because their actions have a greater affect on people.
Kaele posted a vote tally that was obviously wrong, and was presented as yet another way to proceed with the date she wants.
This thread was created to have a vote... you even voted in it. Now that the count is in, and the date that you didn't vote for is the majority, you are questioning its usefulness.
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I don't care how many votes there are or how accurately they are counted...
Well, that's unfortunate.
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I remember how the domain name "fireflyday.com" won in a landslide 155 to 34, but it didn't actually win, it got rolled over for other names, "the people have spoken and they're wrong." Fansite voting has proven unreliable.
The voting on that website was anonymous, and it's hard to tell if there were any controls to prevent the same people from voting more than once. That is a pretty unreliable way to vote.
But the voting on this thread had peoples' names and reasons for voting... and mutliple votes are avoided. This thread is more than straight votes, it's people discussing the subject and working things out.
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And these votes are such a small percentage of the users here, a quick tally, about 50 total votes representing 20,000 users?!
Are you talking about the number of users who post every day, or are you looking at the total number of people who have registered on this site since it began... FOUR years ago? Many times people register, post a little, and then never come back.
The voting on this thread involved the people who care most deeply about the campaign... that's what's important.
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More important than the voting... you need to get together, lock yourselves in an e-mail room and get a consensus, a plan that serves both dates. You 2 are clearly the guiding forces behind both dates - come together and do us all proud, pull something positive out of this division - please!
I believe the plan does deserve both dates. But the dilemma is that kaele wants June 23rd to be Serenity Day and the big DVD buying extravaganza... and I firmly believe that the big DVD buying extravaganza needs more time to achieve the numbers that the fans need to make a truly big impression. My vote is that Serenity Day needs to be September 30th.
This is the issue that's the main sticking point... that and the way kaele wants the browncoat army to also be on hand to "attack"!
11th Hour
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I throw my hat to Sept. 30.
After reading all the arguments, Sept 30 makes more sense. We are not so far into this that adjustments can't be made.
One summer.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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11th Hour.. thank you for doing this.
I appreciate it.
And I want to add my own count, perhaps not as neatly as you since I'm not so artistically inclined. 
I counted 18 for the 23rd.
and 30 for the compromise
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Originally posted by FollowMal:
11th Hour.. thank you for doing this.
I appreciate it.
And I want to add my own count, perhaps not as neatly as you since I'm not so artistically inclined.
I counted 18 for the 23rd.
and 30 for the compromise
Serenity Summer Campaign
Hey, I'm glad you counted too!
Our counts are pretty close... the differences may be because I made extra categories. I was trying to show a bit more personalization to the votes.
So I went back and moved some votes around to streamline, and hopefully, make the categories clearer. Our counts are still pretty darn close! (The votes in the September 30th category still includes folks who like the compromise idea.)
Again, the vote count was an endeavor to stay with the intention of the thread... to vote for which day would be Serenity Day.
Though I was starting to see that some of the people who voted for June 23rd didn't seem to express that they understood that Serenity Day is more than just a DVD sales spike campaign... it's meant to be big enough to impress a studio. It's hard to tell how well informed the votes are... then one wonders if the vote would change if they had more understanding of the issue at hand?
Anyway, most folks seem to really like marking both days with a show of buying support... it's just working out which day is gonna be the BIG day.
11th
P.S.
Succatash - loved your post!
Just wanted folks to know his joke was made before I revised the list, so his numbers are a little different. I moved some "both days" folks to the 23rd, and via email I discovered that one of the "Miscellaneous" people actually was a 30th vote.
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11th Hour:
Try and bring people together... my bad.
Do you want to take this over? Is that what you really want? Then cut us all a break and just say so openly.
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