Today, it was revealed that Listless Ink beaten Random Curiosity with a very small lead. However, there was some backlash from some commenters. RandomC had been the controversy throughout the competition. In the second round, the editorial blog, Behind The Nihon Review gets beaten and everyone points fingers at Random Curiosity for being “elitist.” In the third round in the tournament as you know before, Listless Ink beats RandomC with everyone cheering except a few others that are questioning the results and saying the tournament lost credibility.
Since when the Aniblog Tourney was serious business? This is supposed to be fun and now there are some people blowing it up just because their precious and the so called “elitist” Random Curiosity lost?
There is a reason I did not vote for Random Curiosity in both rounds. While I commend them on their dedicated effort to share the latest episodic posts on Anime, they are a bad influence on new bloggers. It leads to redundant episodic blogs that copy their style because its successful and not make their own. Long summary and less on thoughts is a bad sign of a poorly kept episodic blog that gives reader nothing new to read (e.g.: Author’s thoughts, analysis, etc). Blogs need originality and creativity other than slapping a long summary and a few lines of thoughts. This is why I don’t write summaries and keep them at a minimum because most of the people are already going to watch that episode already. There is no need to have it that long…Also, Anime Blogs should be fun to write. If you just doing it for the fame or become elitist, I think you pretty much miss the point. Like with any type of blog, they are meant to share ideas we want to share. Passion towards a hobby or interest is what attracts readers… not dull writing.
Listless Ink won because it has passion and the author seems to enjoy what they are doing. RandomC is like what ANN and news organizations like CNN. They simply don’t have the passion and just doing a service for the people, nothing else.
My suggestion to prevent this drama is that they need to use something like wp-polls plugin and not Poll Daddy and ban all proxies.
So yeah, I will let the dust settle and I will go formal about this issue in my Round 3 followup when all the polls are closed.
Well, RC basically owns the episodic format, that’s what they do, and for the most part it’s more akin to news than anything else. I wouldn’t say they don’t have passion though, because they are doing precisely what they set out to do; watch-summarize-reflect.
I’m surprised at the outcome, but also not that surprised. Logically, everyone should know what to expect from RC, and it’s pretty standard; the content is not highly diverse… so choosing a blog with more diverse content is sort of an obvious choice if one thinks about the “judging criteria” critically.
At one time my episodic posts were like that, but with every season, I gotten away from the format and just posted what I think along with some meta and analysis. However, I post other content like reviews and editorials to diversify the content. Lack of passion may not be the right word for it, but they definitely lack diverse content because they depend heavily on episodic posts. It’s just like the news paper, they mostly have news articles and nothing else… except some opinion and editorial pieces.
Also, writing it in their format takes too much time, especially when you are watching more than one show, so I dropped the format in the 2009 Fall Season starting with Seitokai no Ichizon.
For a blog to be successful, it needs to be unique… It’s okay to do episodics, but don’t copy the same format RandomC is using and provide content other blogs don’t have like your own reviews and editorials.
What gets my goat is when RC’s fans say that Listless Ink’s win was meaningless. No one is saying that Listless Ink is a more popular blog, or that it deserves to be thought of as a better blog than RC. That’s not what this contest is testing. The one criteria for winning is to be preferred by more people among those who actually take the time to vote within the allocated time. And on that front, LI won, and nothing that RC’s fans say can take that away or diminish it. The only thing that can take away from LI’s win is if it wasn’t fair-and-square and if there was foul play involved, and so far, there’s been no suggestion or evidence of that, and there’s been nothing suspicious that would cause the mods to investigate.
RC’s fans claimed there was a surge in the final moments of the poll, but it’d surprise me if this was orchestrated, because it’d require incredibly good organization and execution. And, if there was an orchestrated surge, that was timed so brilliantly that RC’s fans couldn’t rally quick enough to respond, then, damn that’s incredibly impressive. Either way, RC didn’t bother to campaign, while LI did, and now they’ve come away with the biscuits. Good on them, they did the work, tried their best, and have a reward to show for it. If RC or RC’s fans want to complain about the result, but didn’t do anything to try to rally support, they only have themselves to blame for the loss. They didn’t take their ample opportunity to act, and I can’t see how that can be seen as anything other than meaningful.
tl;dr LI’s tactics >>> RC’s tactics, and if RC or RC’s fans don’t like the result, well they should have used better tactics.
Reep what you sow… If the RC fans wanted RC to win, they should have try harder. Listless Ink won fair and square. Therefore they shouldn’t have anything to complain about… Except they do and I think it’s poor sportsmanship. They should stop complaining because in the end, RandomC will look bad in the end and therefore proving their elitist image.
I am angry!!! Angry over the fact that no one got pissed off on my behalf when I lost to T.H.A.T.!!!
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Don’t worry, I voted for you. :3
Now that commenting is closed on the mentioned post, I see no point to leaving this open…
To all the trolls… get a life and I could say the same to you. Your behavior is despicable.