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what happened??
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Spanna_
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Bloke asked for votes. He had a brother or alias, I can't remember now which one, and he would get him to vote for his team.
Haha, that reminds me of a guy years ago (around the first or second year of the then Wellington Whales) who was desperate to be the clubs No.1 ticket holder.
For the life of me I cannot remember his username (I keep thinking of Peel and Port Adelaide, as well as a number that is in the teens for some reason) but I remember rejecting the application as we felt that the person was not fit to be a Whales ticket holder due to his association with a NAFL Reserves club from South Australia and because his extremely poor attitude was not something that the Whales wanted as a high profile member.
The time following the rejection must have really hit him hard, because I am fairly sure he spat the dummy, changed his username and decided to found a poor excuse for a team in New Zealand out of spite and jealousy.
Actually, when it comes to who that person was, El_Scorcho might remember.
ThundaMotherEffinPower_14.
It was like that but not quite.
Freight Train
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...isn't this essentially asking for votes?
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Look, i'll claim it because plenty of genuinely great sports clubs were founded because good people couldn't stand idly by and watch incompetent idiots run their favourite club into the ground.
(But I don't actually remember this happening and the search function was no help, so did this actually happen?)
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
What do you think?
I think the more important question is; If a tree falls on a mime and everyone is around, does anyone care?
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The Half Back
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Guys, remember that if you ask for votes, Barry Hall is coming for you.
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Only if they actually asked for votes, the post above came after he already got the votes.
Jones2ByrneJones
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BananaWharfie_13?
That rings a bell.
Jones2ByrneJones
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It was actually one of my many, manyformer usernames
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The agreement seems to be though, that they would vote for them in every match, idk.
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There not really any proof that he actually asked him to vote for his entry, though. Just a joke about the votes he already has.
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i cant control my bandwagon, I never asked for votes.
Komrad discovered me in this comp and promoted me, I had nothing to do with it. I suggested if he was gonna vote he should vote for other teams as well.
Komrad discovered me in this comp and promoted me, I had nothing to do with it. I suggested if he was gonna vote he should vote for other teams as well.
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oi everyone vote 4 mi or ill be upset and nobody wants that
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My main concern, and I'm sure it is everyone else's is the word promoted. The promoting could be the difference between another team making finals or not.
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My concern exactly, but at the same time I feel like there's nothing I can do because he isnt breaking the rules himself, but having his team promoted definitely bends the rules.
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Do you want me to unpromote my team???
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If you're the one personally promoting it, then I would say you are directly asking for votes, so yes.
But if you're not personally doing it, I see it as a hell of a grey area which sees you potentially receiving votes beyond the value of your designs- but at the same time you haven't actually broken the rules.
I'd err on the side of caution for this sort of thing - don't post about your team outside of the board. Refer to the NAFL, the game threads, etc, yes. But don't explicitly spruik your team.
I semi-regularly... OK that's generous... I post about once every 5 weeks on the Port board a link to the latest FIRA or NAFL threads or whatever is going down in order to boost the interest a bit. I never state my involvement though, it's just too much of a grey area, like TFT said.
I semi-regularly... OK that's generous... I post about once every 5 weeks on the Port board a link to the latest FIRA or NAFL threads or whatever is going down in order to boost the interest a bit. I never state my involvement though, it's just too much of a grey area, like TFT said.
