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Bondalucci said...By the way, Wet Willy you gotta get some perspective buddy -
WetWilly said,
"BTW, as an impartial observer, I think Bondy should be allowed to win his own comp..." 
Willy, read my lips -
You can't win your own caption comp. Sure, you can put in a caption and even get some green thumbs, ('cos the whole thing is just for fun), but the whole idea is you get to pass the baton on to another worthy recipient.
Keep pluggin' away Willy !


Come on, if he has the best one, why not? It's not like he can force people to vote for him, is it? It's not a matter of life and death, y'know?
First there were The Rules, then there were No Rules; now there's only one rule...who decided this?

Actually, this matter aside, I have a suggestion which might improve future comps (or improve some people's chances, anyway...

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I say we do away with the thumbs altogether, and require voters to actually post their opinion of which was the best capton. Why? Because of the unsportsman-like practice of people red-thumbing ones they don't like, effectively removing the green thumbs that've already been received. All it takes is a concerted effort by someone like, let's say Stamp or Luser, and anyone's votes can be erased. Particularly if that someone said bad stuff about kiting, even if it was all in fun. I watched it happen to me and it wasn't a nice feeling. Imagine getting a whole lot of votes and then watching them disappear...I thought the idea was to pick the best one, not try to tear down the votes of a person or caption you don't like.
We should vote on this. Yeah?