a shrine of insignificance

So for Father’s Day 2008, our local paper had a best father-child photo contest. Some facts about the winning photo. It was a grandfather-grandchild photo which is slightly outside the rules, but not so bad. The really bad part was the number of votes. 1.4 million. Yes a paper in a metro area of 150,000 got 1.4 million views on a single image over a month. So every 2 seconds someone viewed this photo. After numerous complaints by people in the community, including myself, the paper said who care that the rules said no automated scripts, they were going to let the cheater win.

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Filed under: General on July 4th, 2008