Architects Challange........

[Grampa]

the website askes people to vote multiple times

[ducpainter]

the website askes people to vote multiple times

...the next day.

[hbliam]

I have ethics issues with voting more than once.  Kin to cheating in my book.  Sadly I am certain his competitors are all doing it as are their friends.  When did we start rewarding such behavior as a society?  Oh wait Wall Street, never mind............

Pretty much what I said earlier. If you win, what have you really won? Has nothing to do with their craft.

[Grampa]

...the next day.

and dats how I've been roll'n

[ducpainter]

and dats how I've been roll'n

me too

[The Architect]

Pretty much what I said earlier. If you win, what have you really won? Has nothing to do with their craft.

I have to be honest, I'm a little disappointed.  And to make it worse I've dragged all of you in. 

We've worked really hard on the design, preparing the submission and getting votes. 

But I want to thank all of you for your support!  You guys are always there when I need you.

[hbliam]

I have to be honest, I'm a little disappointed.  And to make it worse I've dragged all of you in. 

We've worked really hard on the design, preparing the submission and getting votes. 

But I want to thank all of you for your support!  You guys are always there when I need you.

I'm sorry if I offended you. Your design is great and so are many of the others. I looked through them and voted for yours because I liked it.

For discussion sake the method of voting raises some ethical questions. I ( and others) question the value of "winning" a design contest when the votes are just friends of all the designers and the same friends people can vote over and over. For all you know, firms are assigning interns or receptionists to vote all day. Further, being involved in the construction industry for the last fifteen plus years, I know whoever wins is going to present this to potential clients to further their credibility. Is that proper?

And I suspect the only reason voting is open every day is to drive traffic to the manufacturers site.

[Howie]

I have ethics issues with voting more than once.  Kin to cheating in my book.  Sadly I am certain his competitors are all doing it as are their friends.  When did we start rewarding such behavior as a society?  Oh wait Wall Street, never mind............

As you said, the competition is doing the same so all is fair.  Off I go to vote again.

[ungeheuer]

I'm not voting multiple times because I agree with the website's shonky voting system.  I don't.

I'm voting multiple time because that's what the website's shonky voting system requires for success.

Vote just once = pissing into the wind.

[The Architect]

I'm sorry if I offended you. Your design is great and so are many of the others. I looked through them and voted for yours because I liked it.

No offense taken here.

[The Architect]

Thanks everyone for voting!

I was a bit surprised with the sneaky voting options.  I have to admit I was a little disappointed with the houses that were advancing.  I don't want to be that whiny bitter person.  So I'll let someone else do it.  While visiting Marvin Windows sit-on-my-face-book (<--- credit to Rat) page I found this post:

"I looked over the remaining houses and I'm baffled how they survived the first round. I'm supposed to pick from *that*? Certainly they're nice and all, but the bar for an architectural competition should be a tad higher than barn-ish gable-roofed boxes and that ramshackle tool shed at Bragg Hill PA. I mean, what the hell *is* that thing? It looks like a samples display for a tenth-rate siding company tacked onto a dilapidated Midwest granary.

If that's what's at the top of the heap, I'd consider it a breach of aesthetic self-respect to have the vaguest association with it."

[ducpainter]

Pella windows are better anyway.

[Monsterlover]

Thanks everyone for voting!

I was a bit surprised with the sneaky voting options.  I have to admit I was a little disappointed with the houses that were advancing.  I don't want to be that whiny bitter person.  So I'll let someone else do it.  While visiting Marvin Windows sit-on-my-face-book (<--- credit to Rat) page I found this post:

"I looked over the remaining houses and I'm baffled how they survived the first round. I'm supposed to pick from *that*? Certainly they're nice and all, but the bar for an architectural competition should be a tad higher than barn-ish gable-roofed boxes and that ramshackle tool shed at Bragg Hill PA. I mean, what the hell *is* that thing? It looks like a samples display for a tenth-rate siding company tacked onto a dilapidated Midwest granary.

If that's what's at the top of the heap, I'd consider it a breach of aesthetic self-respect to have the vaguest association with it."

That's a sick burn right there

[Monsterlover]

I can't believe "the cube" is winning.

I've built more imaginative cat forts from cardboard boxes

[Oldfisti]

I like this one more than the cube.  Not in the challenge however