Vote for Firefly (We're #3)! VIII

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FIREFLYGAL

Friday, February 2, 2007 1:51 PM

We have LOST ground to Xena today (yesterday) what is this 'Verse coming to?

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FLYVOTE

Friday, February 2, 2007 2:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Roy:
As there are a lot of FlyVote users and some of the people using it "forget" to vote for Firefly. Can the popup be set to always vote for Firefly every time the vote button is pressed regardless of what shows are selected ?

This has already been suggested. But I see it as being deceptive and I won't add it to FlyVote. We'll just need to do things the hard way and get more people to vote.

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CANTER

Friday, February 2, 2007 2:33 PM

I go away for like 3 days and when I come back we're losing ground to Xena.

Not good.

First things first. I apolosise for the lenght of this. Consider it a month's worth of bumps...

When Nathan first started his myspace, I sent him a few direct messages asking if he would maybe mention the voting campaign in his blog. I did it mainly before the December 1st Voting day drive.

He didn't respond.

I realised he maybe could not really respond to each and every request.

I then made mention of the voting thing in his "comments" for other Browncoats to read, and I added a link.

In his next blog he referred to annoying people who tried to guilt him into visiting fanboards and he then disabled all links in his "comments".

I somehow get the idea he doesn't want to get involved with this. To be fair, firefly is in his past and he's probably a bit busy. I don't blame the man ( I adore the ground he walks on) but I don't think we can look for too much help from that quarter. Unless everyone on this site start nagging him incessantly, until he realises how important this is to us....

I've requested Jewell to add me as a friend to her myspace, but that hasn't happened yet.

When we did the December 1st thing, a few of us started visiting other firefly boards to promote the day, but I personally think we will never get the numbers necessary to gain on Xena if we can't reach non-internet fans. For every fan active on the boards, there must be at least 10 who isn't. Why is it not possible to form an e-mail chain?

In 1999 I was in the UK while we had our general elections back home. For some reason, the government wouldn't allow us to vote, because we weren't in the country on the day of the election. Within about a month, we managed to obtain 55 000 e-mail "signatures" on a online petition against their decision. Every person involved knew at least 3 other people touched by the decision. E-mails were sent and the petition signed. How can that not work here? Don't you know of 3 other Browncoats? Before December 1 I "requested" (please read "blackmailed") a few of my friends to vote for the show, even though they've never seen it. They gladly did it (please read "fearing for their lives") and are now very curious about the show. I've converted at least three people to the show with that.

We will not succeed in this if we don't focus our attention and organise our efforts.

Consider that my two cent's worth.

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DERANGEDMILK

Friday, February 2, 2007 2:35 PM

Wow...I'm seriously saddened....THIS CANNOT HAPPEN AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!
-e

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CAUSAL

Friday, February 2, 2007 3:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Canter:
Unless everyone on this site start nagging him incessantly, until he realises how important this is to us....

I can't tell if you're seriously suggesting that we should do this or not, so I won't criticize. But I do want to put in my $0.02. I think that it's a terrible idea to bother Nathan and the other BDHs in an attempt to get them to mention the voting. In the first place, these are actors that have personal lives and other work to do. Firefly is in their past. It may be a treasured memory, and they might even hold on to the hope for more, like we do. But "nagging incessantly" could only have the effect of alienating them from the Firefly fanbase, which is something we want to avoid at all costs. We are obssessive, fine. But in the we've also had the reputation for being, well, not the nicest fandom ever. We certainly don't want our BDHs to share that opinion. In the second place, this voting thing can't become something that we live and die over. I would personally love to see Firefly take home the trophy; but if we don't, that will not change my love of the 'verse one tiny little bit, nor will it change the fact that Firefly is the best damned TV out there. I'm thinking we need to take a step back and breathe--this voting thing is not the end of the world. I reckon Mr LaBonte has himself a good hearty chuckle every time one fandom or the other gets all spun up over it. It's just a single website poll, folks, seriously.

/Rant

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CANTER

Friday, February 2, 2007 3:26 PM

Right,

I keep on forgetting that irony doesn't translate well. Not from Afrikaans to English, and most definetly not from my mind to the e-mail screen.

Please reread my previous post, and then ignore the bit about the "nagging incessantly".

And then discuss among yourselves whether we should consider an e-mail list.

And for clarity. I'm not suggesting toy-toying in the streets. (OK, for more clarity: toy-toying is something protesters do over here when they want attention. It looks a lot like dancing)

I'm suggesting spreading the word to more people than those on the boards. I think everyone realises that this is just a poll. A lot of us have been voting for a long while now, and we know exactly what it is about.
But it is a poll which is attracting a lot of attention. And every little bit of attention helps keeping my serenity-hopes in the air.
I do not apologise for them.

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FLATTOP

Friday, February 2, 2007 3:41 PM

Anyone else remember this one?

"Y'know, that's why we lost the war. Superior numbers."

"Thanks for the reenactment, Sir."

Or, a bit more obscure (not FFS), but in keeping with the theme:
"Things are going well sir. We're surrounded, behind enemy lines, out-gunned, and out-numbered. This is where we belong."

We are Browncoats. We may lose, but we won't quit. Let's at least make Xena work up a sweat!

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FIREFLYGAL

Friday, February 2, 2007 3:43 PM

I have friends voting that don't like Sci Fi, they are just voting to help me out. So spreading the word however we choose to do it is fine.

Since the BDHs admit to being fans themselves, I don't think it's inappropriate to request they post something on their My Space but of course, nagging is a no-no.

May I suggest those with fan items make a link to the voting site, that may help as well.

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AYCEOFSPADES

Friday, February 2, 2007 4:53 PM

I just don't get it. Xena hits 1k+ and all of a sudden our 1k+ streak ends. It's like SOME Browncoats are thinking 'what's the point?'

I would have thought Xena hitting 1k+ would have inspired us to vote even harder and start hittin 1300+. We were hitting around 1150+ regularly last week.

Let's not forget guys, this could just be a small phase from Xena fans and the voting is long term. It may just be a week or so of Xena fans hard voting and then relaxing again, but if we keep it above the 1k+, when they start to relax again it will make all the difference. Finding an extra hour a day to vote could make the difference between 1st and 2nd.

True heroes are not those who fall and stay down but those fall and come back even stronger. When this contest ends and Firefly is at number one, nothing will beat the feeling of thinking 'Yes, we did that!'

So come on Browncoats, let's show Xena and the rest WHO WE ARE!

'I start fightin' a war, I guarantee, you'll see somethin' new.'

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FLYVOTE

Friday, February 2, 2007 6:26 PM

Firefly's numbers went down AND Bonanza's numbers went down, Xena's numbers went up. Why would that be?

Did the numbers for other shows go down?

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