> sulfugor wrote:
>> Personally, i found some of his comments funny 

I can't complain too much about r### [at] kol44kauhajokifi, as he complimented
me and made me laugh about my animation with a comment something like,
"I don't care if it's ugly, it's the winner!"  I did indeed LOL.

But this does raise a question about taste vs. ethics in voting in the
IRTC.  Undoubtedly many voters rate an entry on the question, "How
easily could someone confuse this for a photograph?"  I, on the other
hand, rate entries on the question, "Would this look cool on a T-shirt
seen from 100 feet away?"  I think it's more fun to look at plastic bugs
than beach scenes ('A Bug's Life' may be an exception). 

In my voting, I've also found myself thinking, "I don't care how good
this one is; I don't think it should win," or, "I don't want to lose to
THIS entry." Is this contrary to the spirit of the IRTC?  For example, I
thought I'd much rather lose to 'Pool Shark' than 'Canyon', and so gave
'Pool Shark' near 20-20-20's. I suppose this philosophy could be taken
to an unethical extreme, in giving everyone else's entry a 1-1-1. I'm
certainly not doing that.

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