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Saxonia Issue 02 Part 018
Who are cheaters
By Rumrunner/VOID
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In the latest Eurochart by Iris (issue 46, that is), I found that the
makers had decided to include a list of those who had cheated in voting.
They told that this would perhaps become a regular feature if the voters
continued to cheat.
I remember that something almost the same (although more serious and, let's
say hardhitting) happened a long way back, I think it was when Crusaders
still ran the chart. Reading the small section that later became a mag,
an article told about cheating, and Crusaders wanted to get in touch with
a group named [2 Starion[0 to set things straight. So my best [1 guess[0 (with
emphasis on guess) is that somebody (a singleperson or a whole group) had
sent in several votesheets for their own productions and used the name
Starion in order to not get recognised.
We can all see that in the list in Eurochart 46, there were no such serious
things that occurred, all listed people had voted for their own
groupmembers and/or their own group's productions, and we cannot say that
this is a big offence, I think. However, the makers don't want people to
vote for their own group and that's something to take care of when voting.
However, where does the line go, there are instances where one can discuss
if somebody had voted for their own group(mates) or not. I would first like
to mention one instance where somebody has changed their group. As we all
know, the Eurochart isn't a regular production as it used to be. The makers
spell it out loud themselves, "the next issue will be out when it will be".
So, much can happen before the votes are counted. Let's say that I would
leave my group on the [1 12.th of October,[0 then, on the [1 14.th of October,[0 I
would vote for my old group in the charts. In such a case, I haven't voted
for my group, but will that come out in the open?
Also, for VOID's consern, and I am sure that there are other groups in the
same position, [2 Gone[0 has left our group to focus on the Jurassic Pack from
Scarab. But because of all the work he has done for VOID, we still keep
him on the memberslist, as a honouree member. The question now is, can
VOID members vote for Gone?
Let's also think a minute about all double- and even triplemembers there
are now. While such a thing was unlikely to occur back when people made
more productions than now, it has become more of a rule than of an
exeption. Let's say that I was a member of VOID, Nah-Kolor, Iris and even
Veezya. Now, let's also consider that I had not done any work for Nah-Kolor
for the last two years, therefore, I only consider the others in that group
to be such good friends that I don't want to leave because of that. Now,
can I vote for the group?
I am sure that there are many more special cases like this to be found if
one look out for them, the ones I have mentioned here are the ones that
sprung to my mind when reading the article in Eurochart 46. I might have
made more problems here than it really is, but to get as correct voting as
possible, it's important to sort out as many problems as possible,
preferably before they occur, since this is the only way to not leave
people disappointed.
In the end of this article, I would also like to say that I believe that
those on the cheaters list meant no harm by doing what they have done.
Although I most often don't believe in people, the Amiga scene is an
exeption. Really, how many people do you think wanted to cheat to get
famous among the low number of sceners who are left? And those who did
such a thing when the Amigascene was the biggest of it's kind are most
likely to have left a long time ago. I think that those who are left in
the scene have chosen to do so because they enjoy what they are doing.
There you have some aspects of the cheaters list, I understand that the
Iris people must be tired of discarding parts of, or even whole votesheets
because some people vote in a way you are not supposed to do. I remember
Darkhawks view in the article, where he listed several point that went in
the direction of letting people vote for their own group(members), but
that it still seemed impossible do to so. Seeing this attitude, it seems
that even the staff behind Eurochart don't consider the voters who have
broken the guidelines to be big bad nasty people, so perhaps it would be
more appropriate to rename the cheaters list to awareness list or something
like that, where people could check if they had crossed the given
guidelines.
