Topic: Washington Post Has a Poll for Best Webcomic - Vote Before Wednesday (Read 18507 times)

Bob_Mozark · « **on:** 25 Jan 2010, 03:56 »

QC was nominated as one of the 22 best webcomics of the past decade.

Now is your chance to vote:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2010/01/the_best_webcomic_its_time_to.html

Border Reiver · « **Reply #1 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 05:04 »

I voted, it was hard to choose between my three favs on the list (QC, Girl Genius and Shlock Mercenary), but in the end the best strip got my vote....

And no, I'm not telling.

jonarus_drakus · « **Reply #2 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 06:12 »

I have no problem admiting i voted for QC because it's the only one on the list that i actually read

LTK · « **Reply #3 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 06:32 »

It was between QC and xkcd for me, I don't read anything else. But QC wins by a mile. Hey, jeph should put this in a newspost, that's gonna get him some votes.

JD · « **Reply #4 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 08:14 »

Quote from: Border Reiver on 25 Jan 2010, 05:04

I voted, it was hard to choose between my three favs on the list (QC, Girl Genius and Shlock Mercenary), but in the end the best strip got my vote....

And no, I'm not telling.

I'll hazard a guess. Girl Genius?

raoullefere · « **Reply #5 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 09:25 »

Oddly, I've never heard of Schlock Mercenary. Had to choose between QC and OOTS, which was difficult. Well, I also had to choose between them and Red String, but I've cooled a little on that since Gina let Mihara and Kazuo hit the rocks. Even getting Reika and Eiji together hasn't helped. Ah well.*

Sadly, Locus wasn't on the list. Better luck next year, Adam! (I assume there'll be a next year—if there's a Post next year)

*Sure, laugh. We all know you read Over and weep for Felix.

JD · « **Reply #6 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 09:36 »

I voted for PBF

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #7 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 09:39 »

Quote from: raoullefere on 25 Jan 2010, 09:25

Oddly, I've never heard of Schlock Mercenary. Had to choose between QC and OOTS, which was difficult. Well, I also had to choose between them and Red String, but I've cooled a little on that since Gina let Mihara and Kazuo hit the rocks. Even getting Reika and Eiji together hasn't helped. Ah well.*

Sadly, Locus wasn't on the list. Better luck next year, Adam! (I assume there'll be a next year—if there's a Post next year)

*Sure, laugh. We all know you read Over and weep for Felix.

Miharu, dear. Also, Fuuko and Hanae are infinitely adorable, therefore Gina gets a free pass for Kazuo being a spineless dick.

Plus I've never heard of Over; in future, if you're going to accuse people of reading things, you ought to at least provide a link so that there's a chance that it'd be true by the time they get around to rebuffing you.

Heliphyneau · « **Reply #8 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 09:58 »

FYI, this thread is a duplicate. http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24401.0.html

I voted for QC, naturally. I've never read Schlock Mercenary, but it sure seems to be way out in front. Is it actually that good?

Kugai · « **Reply #9 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 12:09 »

Voted for QC, but if Flaky Pastry had been on there it would have been a difficult choice.

raoullefere · « **Reply #10 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 12:37 »

Quote from: Mr_Rose on 25 Jan 2010, 09:39

Quote from: raoullefere on 25 Jan 2010, 09:25
Oddly, I've never heard of Schlock Mercenary. Had to choose between QC and OOTS, which was difficult. Well, I also had to choose between them and Red String, but I've cooled a little on that since Gina let Mihara and Kazuo hit the rocks. Even getting Reika and Eiji together hasn't helped. Ah well.*

Sadly, Locus wasn't on the list. Better luck next year, Adam! (I assume there'll be a next year—if there's a Post next year)

*Sure, laugh. We all know you read Over and weep for Felix.

Miharu, dear. Also, Fuuko and Hanae are infinitely adorable, therefore Gina gets a free pass for Kazuo being a spineless dick.

Plus I've never heard of Over; in future, if you're going to accuse people of reading things, you ought to at least provide a link so that there's a chance that it'd be true by the time they get around to rebuffing you.

Mi culpa: http://www.overcomic.com/ And http://www.needcomics.com/Locus/ for that matter. If you dig on horror/supernatural (and topless demon-fighters), does Adam Black have a webcomic you! Srsly.

And naturally, the one name I didn't cut and paste, I misspelled. And now I almost misspelled misspelled.

Wiregeek · « **Reply #11 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 13:17 »

I voted for Schlock.

Akima · « **Reply #12 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 14:01 »

Quote from: Heliphyneau on 25 Jan 2010, 09:58

I've never read Schlock Mercenary, but it sure seems to be way out in front. Is it actually that good?

It is good, if you like space-opera, though sometimes I find the humour a bit predictable and repetitive. Howard Tayler is super-professional, never missing an update, seven days a week (he was late once, when the server-farm where he is hosted was taken out. By an explosion), or indulging in filler-strips, guest strips etc. In summary, Schlock Mercenary deserves a lot of credit. But:

I've never felt impelled to join the forum, as obviously I have here.
I don't poke about in the archives regularly the way I do with QC.

So I decided, in the end, that I must care more about QC...

Carl-E · « **Reply #13 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 16:02 »

Akima, I appreciate your nuanced analysis, and must concur - there are several I follow, but few I care enough about to dance in the forums.

However, I'm not voting as per Jeph's tweets.

You see, I teach for a living. And lately, student evaluations/popularity contests have cost some of the best teachers I know their jobs, including me on a few occasions. Polls like this do no one any good, it's a matter of who has more viewers and/or can lobby the most people to go vote. And what's it do for anyone, especially the losers? The only good thing is the links to more new comics...

JD · « **Reply #14 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 17:38 »

PvP has gotten zero votes

scarred · « **Reply #15 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 17:57 »

PvP is pretty good but Scott Kurtz is an enormous douchebag (no pun intended) and online polls are silly etc.

BobtheDancingFlea · « **Reply #16 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 18:09 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 25 Jan 2010, 09:36

I voted for PBF

High-five, we're both part of that big ol' 1%! : D

Mr_Rose · « **Reply #17 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 18:27 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 25 Jan 2010, 17:38

PvP has gotten zero votes

Not even gonna pretend to be surprised.
PvP is a newspaper strip of the old school (y'know, when they were worth the extremely cheap paper they were printed on), but on teh intarwebz! I think this might actually make it the opposite of a webcomic.
The same is true of Sinfest, but that is at least more consistently endearing.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #18 on:** 25 Jan 2010, 22:26 »

Sinfest is a newspaper comic if a newspaper comic could do what its author wanted to to do.

PvP is Mary Worth for folks in their 30s.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #19 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 04:14 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 25 Jan 2010, 08:14

Quote from: Border Reiver on 25 Jan 2010, 05:04
I voted, it was hard to choose between my three favs on the list (QC, Girl Genius and Shlock Mercenary), but in the end the best strip got my vote....

And no, I'm not telling.
I'll hazard a guess. Girl Genius?

I'll fess up - GG did get the vote - right after it won the coin flip

Binary · « **Reply #20 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 05:24 »

Uh, this is Jeph's take on the subject (via Twitter):

I hate polls like that because they inevitably boil down to "who has the most readers/campaigns the most to win"
I urge my readers NOT TO VOTE in this poll because this kind of popularity contest is a stupid waste of time.
I don't give a rat's ass about being "the best comic of the decade" in some stupid bullshit online poll. I just want my comic to suck less
click here to vote in "best pet food of the decade!" click HERE to vote in "best anal fissure of the decade!"

Too bad I'd already voted before I saw this.

raoullefere · « **Reply #21 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 09:15 »

Me, too.

...

Where're they voting for the anal fissure?

Junodog · « **Reply #22 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 10:07 »

I only recognized six of the comics on there, and of those six I only read three. But I did find some amusement in the disclaimer-type thing at the bottom. "unscientific and nonbinding poll" indeed.

Binary · « **Reply #23 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 11:24 »

I have rectified my sin of voting in this poll by the simple expedient, over dinner, of voting once for every other comic on the list. Yes, they're so dumb they didn't check for multiple votes from the same IP address.

JD · « **Reply #24 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 11:27 »

I know most of them! Red String doesn't deserve to be on there.

Carl-E · « **Reply #25 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 14:40 »

Opine away, there will always be those who disagree!

Right, Raoullefere?

Kugai · « **Reply #26 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 16:10 »

To Paraphrase Groucho Marks

Jeph wouldn't want to be in any Comic Poll that would have his Comic on it.

BillyxRansom · « **Reply #27 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 20:47 »

Quote from: raoullefere on 26 Jan 2010, 09:15

Me, too.

...

Where're they voting for the anal fissure?

.

jwhouk · « **Reply #28 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 22:55 »

Well, poll is supposedly over, and somehow Perry Bible Fellowship ended up with an ungodly percentage of the vote - and about 140,000 votes were cast in the last 24 hours.

It's not a popularity contest; it's about whose followers can hack into the poll server and manipulate the results.

JD · « **Reply #29 on:** 26 Jan 2010, 22:57 »

They are the coolest hackers ever.

raoullefere · « **Reply #30 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 02:37 »

Quote from: Carl-E on 26 Jan 2010, 14:40

Opine away, there will always be those who disagree!

Right, Raoullefere?

(Does a Hanners lookaround) Right.

jeph · « **Reply #31 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 02:48 »

what a surprise

Spluff · « **Reply #32 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 05:38 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 26 Jan 2010, 22:55

Well, poll is supposedly over, and somehow Perry Bible Fellowship ended up with an ungodly percentage of the vote - and about 140,000 votes were cast in the last 24 hours.

It's not a popularity contest; it's about whose followers can hack into the poll server and manipulate the results.

It's probably being doctored by the Washington Post to lend a semblance of credibility to their readership.

Imagine one morning, they arrive at work, and check the state of their polls. They find LICD holding a huge portion of the votes. They did the only thing they could do - change it so PBF and Kate Beaton are winning, and then blanked the whole incident from their minds forever. It's the only way they could retain their sanity.

jwhouk · « **Reply #33 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 05:57 »

Quote from: jeph on 27 Jan 2010, 02:48

what a surprise

We humbly bow to your superior knowledge, oh great one.

Now can you nail that angie123 spambot with a Buick fixation to the ground like a jackhammer to concrete?

Carl-E · « **Reply #34 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 05:59 »

Quote from: Binary on 26 Jan 2010, 11:24

I have rectified my sin of voting in this poll by the simple expedient, over dinner, of voting once for every other comic on the list. Yes, they're so dumb they didn't check for multiple votes from the same IP address.

I don't think the Post needed to do anything - just a few PBF fans finding out what Binary found out will do the trick!

Just one of the many problems with a poll like this!

Binary · « **Reply #35 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 07:54 »

I imagine it would be trivial to write a few lines of Python to fire off votes to the poll in an endless loop.

What a farce.

Less trivial, but more amusing, would have been to write a bot that monitored the poll results and adjusted its voting pattern so as to ensure a 22-way dead heat.

Kugai · « **Reply #36 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 14:00 »

Well, you know what they say - There's lies, damned lies and rigged polls.

Shadic · « **Reply #37 on:** 05 Feb 2010, 02:06 »

I'm actually surprised so many people know of PBF.

syrupykeyboard · « **Reply #38 on:** 05 Feb 2010, 12:56 »

Achewood is excellent.
READ IT.
I am going back through the archives because I stopped reading at one point, so I am not up to date on it yet but it is good from what I remember.

JD · « **Reply #39 on:** 06 Feb 2010, 00:28 »

Ignore the previous two posters.

Don't read it.

syrupykeyboard · « **Reply #40 on:** 06 Feb 2010, 00:34 »

Carl-E · « **Reply #41 on:** 06 Feb 2010, 07:28 »

Gee, that could be almost everybody. You really want the thread all to yourself, huh?

Binary · « **Reply #42 on:** 06 Feb 2010, 08:39 »

And it's "fewer posts", not "less posts". Post is a countable noun.

Kugai · « **Reply #43 on:** 06 Feb 2010, 12:18 »

Quote from: Binary on 06 Feb 2010, 08:39

And it's "fewer posts", not "less posts". Post is a countable noun.

Thank you Officer.

raoullefere · « **Reply #44 on:** 06 Feb 2010, 13:54 »

Yes, laugh. Scoff. You have no idea the horrors we save you from—or would, if we could work out a way to rap someone's knuckles with a ruler over broadband.

JD · « **Reply #45 on:** 06 Feb 2010, 15:56 »

Quote from: Jeans on 06 Feb 2010, 06:56

Shut up, guy with less posts than me.

Nerd. Nerdddd Nerrrrrrd

Carl-E · « **Reply #46 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 02:02 »

Quote from: raoullefere on 06 Feb 2010, 13:54

Yes, laugh. Scoff. You have no idea the horrors we save you from—or would, if we could work out a way to rap someone's knuckles with a ruler over broadband.

All we need are virtual nuns.

That sounds worse than I intended...

Border Reiver · « **Reply #47 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 17:15 »

As long as they are the Penguin or Sister Wulfia we're good.

Eris · « **Reply #48 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 17:41 »

Hey, that guy has even less posts than zombiedude. Don't listen to him!

(I also don't read Achewood, so whatever. I voted for Kate Beaton)

raoullefere · « **Reply #49 on:** 07 Feb 2010, 18:47 »

Whack!

Dammit, still doesn't work.

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