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Readers' Choice Awards (siteadm) Fri, 13 Jun
survey != poll (sunnychung) Sat, 14 Jun
Thus we see the problem. (acagle) Mon, 16 Jun
Cynicism misplaced (rparker) Mon, 16 Jun
Not your adverts... (khasim) Mon, 16 Jun
The hole in your circle (rparker) Tue, 17 Jun
But without advertisers.... (khasim) Tue, 17 Jun
I'm sure you love your job but ... (rparker) Wed, 18 Jun

So that is what the Reader's Choice is!

Posted by: lmalates
Date posted: Wed, 18 Jun 1997

Rachel Parker wrote:
>> But, Product of the Year Readers Choice is
>> not advertising driven. It has always been
>> an opportunity for readers to tell vendors
>> what they think of the products they buy.

This is why I think InfoWorld should can the
web-based voting, and the opinion pools and
return to sticking ballots in the print only
addition.

This would make ballot-stuffing difficult to
the point of impracticality and IMHO it would
be more in the spirit of the Reader's Choice
Award.

Reader's Choice Awards should be, above all,
fun for the readers. The actions on all side
of this debacle detracts from any value the
award might have had and makes pretty much
everybody unhappy.

Another good idea for next time, would be to
simply publish, all the results with no
analysis. Put up the questions as asked,
the numbers of responses for each product,
and the number of participants total. Then
let the readers read for themselves and draw
their own conclusions.

I think much of the anger present in this
forum comes from assertions made by editors
of InfoWorld, with no hard evidence presented
to back up those assertions.

For example, I for one am quite ready to
believe that one or more individuals may have
stuffed the ballot box towards OS/2.
However, if Infoworld has any concrete
evidence of that, their unwillingness to
publish it creates doubt.

regards,

Lee


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