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Oct. 26th, 2010 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42For those of you not on the Trek fan communities, the NASA web site has a song contest where you can pick your favorite space song and the Star Trek theme is one of the choices. Another choice is a song by Big Head Todd, which I've never heard of but apparently it has a small but dedicated following. So dedicated that they're obviously cheating to get that song to be number 1. And some Star Trek fans are pretty upset about that.
OK, whatever, it would be cool if the one we like wins. But the top two songs will both be used and it's obviously going to be these two. And I'm getting a little sick of seeing a new overwrought post complaining about it EVERY DAY and urging us to vote more. See, there's no IP tracking or anything, you can just sit there reloading the page and vote as many times as you like. The lack of security is an indication of how seriously NASA is taking this. Which is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for a contest where people pick which song they like, actually!
It's painfully ironic that there's a real election coming up next week and people are complaining bitterly about fraud and voter apathy in a SONG CONTEST. OK, some of the users are too young to vote in the real election but I bet most of them aren't. And I know that getting all worked up about this thing doesn't mean people don't also care deeply about the real election. It's just bugging me that they don't seem to have any perspective. The post I linked to above urges people to protest to NASA about the Big Head Todd fans' VOTER FRAUD. NASA doesn't care. If they did, they would have made it harder to cheat. They can do that, they are NASA after all.
I was going to post a bitchy comment about it but I'm just going to leave it here. People tend to get offended when you point out that the thing they're losing sleep over is actually trivial and kind of stupid.
OK, whatever, it would be cool if the one we like wins. But the top two songs will both be used and it's obviously going to be these two. And I'm getting a little sick of seeing a new overwrought post complaining about it EVERY DAY and urging us to vote more. See, there's no IP tracking or anything, you can just sit there reloading the page and vote as many times as you like. The lack of security is an indication of how seriously NASA is taking this. Which is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for a contest where people pick which song they like, actually!
It's painfully ironic that there's a real election coming up next week and people are complaining bitterly about fraud and voter apathy in a SONG CONTEST. OK, some of the users are too young to vote in the real election but I bet most of them aren't. And I know that getting all worked up about this thing doesn't mean people don't also care deeply about the real election. It's just bugging me that they don't seem to have any perspective. The post I linked to above urges people to protest to NASA about the Big Head Todd fans' VOTER FRAUD. NASA doesn't care. If they did, they would have made it harder to cheat. They can do that, they are NASA after all.
I was going to post a bitchy comment about it but I'm just going to leave it here. People tend to get offended when you point out that the thing they're losing sleep over is actually trivial and kind of stupid.
