Important Message For All Horrorfest Filmmakers!

Brandon Rice

Brandon Rice

Distributed Producer
To make the job on Jarred and Barry S easier, PLEASE.... REMOVE ALL NUMBERS for your own film from your ballot. That way we will NOT have to do this manually, thanks a lot!
 
I'm sorry, but I think this is STUPID (all caps intentional). Do you think Oscar nominees are told they can't vote for themselves, or SAG Award nominees or basically anyone in contention for an award or public office??? I fail to see the connection between not voting for ourselves and running the spreadsheet manually. What is the point of voting if you can't vote for yourself?
 
thekyleman71 said:
I think it makes total sense!
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Why? As noted, the tradition with any kind of voting is that the candidate/nominee/contender/whatever is always allowed to vote for whomever they want, including themselves.
 
I am sorry you don't like the new guidelines... but I think most everyone here has agreed it's a good change. Anyway, Barry_S will be handling all the ballot totals and whatnot, so he'll make sure everything is done fairly.
 
Brandon Rice said:
I am sorry you don't like the new guidelines... but I think most everyone here has agreed it's a good change. Anyway, Barry_S will be handling all the ballot totals and whatnot, so he'll make sure everything is done fairly.
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I still don't see what would be unfair about voting for yourself. That's the American Way. I would really like to hear the logic behind this decision. (And, do you really think you know what everyone here thinks? That's an awful lot of people. Some of whom, I wouldn't doubt, are unwilling to go on the record.)
 
Well, I submitted my ballot with my entry ratings cleared out. I hope this was an official announcement?

I think the point is that if everyone gave themselves a 10, then it would be a wash. So leaving it blank is the same thing. I'm assuming by what Brandon posted, that the mods doing the counting will clear the ratings for their own film, even if we don't do it.

Quite frankly, I gave myself as objective a rating as I could (not 10's), but then cleared them out after this announcement.
 
Well - for those of us without 100+ posts - thus unable to vote, I think it's completely fair. Why should you be able to vote 10's across the board on your film, and not us users without 100 posts?

It makes total sense.
 
If you have a film in the competition you can vote regardless of the number of posts you have.

Regardless, I'm glad to know that you guys aren't counting votes on the maker's own film.
 
Brandon Rice said:
I am sorry you don't like the new guidelines... but I think most everyone here has agreed it's a good change. Anyway, Barry_S will be handling all the ballot totals and whatnot, so he'll make sure everything is done fairly.
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When was the meeting with everyone?
Does this mean flicks like Bloody mary loses 5 votes because 5 people from here worked on it. Did someone complain about something like that? I think for Bloody mary everyone should be able to vote except Mark because it skews the votes for his film big time if thats not the case.
 
Aram Bauman said:
When was the meeting with everyone?
Does this mean flicks like Bloody mary loses 5 votes because 5 people from here worked on it. Did someone complain about something like that? I think for Bloody mary everyone should be able to vote except Mark because it skews the votes for his film big time if thats not the case.
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ABSOLUTELY AGREE! Just directors cannot vote I hope. That would be horrible for films like Bloody Mary.
 
Hmm. Not sure I agree.

Jon Mueller the writer, director, and an actor in Second Hand Smoke isn't registered on here at all and I have a feeling probably won't. But if he did, by this logic, one of us should be able to vote. I don't think either of us should.

Also, films with what, 5+ people working on it could really sway the vote if they all gave 10s. The whole point is to bring thing to get rid of that kind of thing.

And where do you cut off who worked on it? I could get the composer to sign up here and vote for it as well. Her work is in the film, she doesn't have 100 posts, would she be allowed to vote?

I think if you were involved in making it you shouldn't get to vote.
 
By that logic Bloody Mary loses 5 votes BUT every other film gets 5 extra votes from the people of Bloody Mary. Last fest, Jack had the same 5 people working on his film Bone hand, I'm sure everyone that worked on it probably gave it 10s. Now another film is in that same position and its going to get screwed. But bottom line, all the films that had more than one person from here working on it loses those votes but the other films gain those extra votes. The rules shouldn't change right before voting either.
 
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