well, i didn't make it to las vegas and the comedy festival after all. i want to thank all the people that voted for me, and spread the word to others to vote as well. i know that a lot of people (too many to list right now) spent a lot of their time voting in an effort to help me secure a spot at the lucky 21 show in vegas, and it means a lot to me. i soon learned that some comics appeared to be cheating, and it seemed so blatant that they were sure to be caught. at one point, roughly 500 votes equaled about 1%, and i watched one particular comic jump from 6% to 20% overnight. that's about 7,000 votes in the middle of the night. right. that's legitimate.
i was told by a friend of mine that they were probably using a "script" or "macro" to generate the votes, and i thought maybe it was something traceable and they would be disqualified. apparently not. a macro is basically a program that you tell to do certain actions (open a window, go to a website, vote, close window) and then repeat. there isn't really any way that the website can tell if it's your finger clicking the mouse, or your computer doing it, because it looks the same on their end. i realized that a better system would involve "one i.p. address= one vote"
i had a friend tell me that he was going to write a script or run a macro for me and i told him no. i believed that anything like that would be found out and i don't want to get disqualified, and i thought i would have the votes legitimately anyway. besides that, i don't cheat. period.
let me explain. i don't cheat, i don't steal jokes, i don't kiss people's asses, i don't justify the means with the end, and i still believe that the good guy will eventually prevail. i didn't get great grades in school because i never cheated on a test. it would go down like this: i didn't study (because i was setting off fireworks or something stupid) and then when the test came and i was unprepared, i would do poorly. basically, i screwed up and i took my lumps. when i got busted, i went to detention. when i get nailed by radar, i pull over. i never copied someone else's homework. i wouldn't get answers from somebody else's paper. i never copied someone else's book report. in a nutshell, i've always done my best to be honest. i play by the rules. and it's getting me nowhere.
thank you to everyone who got behind me on this, and thank you for voting for me. thanks for giving a shit and wanting to see me succeed. thank you for wanting to see me make it to the next level, and taking action to make it happen. all i can say is that i am truly sorry that the votes you cast were rendered mute, and your voice was not heard because of a flawed system. i can never prove anything, but it doesn't matter anyway. i feel happy enough to know that you guys were there for me and had my back.
thank you.
by the way, i'm thinking of abandoning this blog as i don't know how many people actually come here, so if you are reading this please leave a comment so i have some idea as to whether to pull the plug on this blog.
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