The time I hate the Internet

Okay, so. Kristin at E! Online has her Save Our Show poll every year, and for some reason the networks actually listen to her and use that as a gauge to help them decide to keep some shows with questionable ratings. Interesting, since most TV show fans don't trust her far enough to throw her, although some would certainly be willing to try. (*cough*)

Anyway, her Save Our Show poll, which this year is an online poll. Oh, that won't get hacked by bots at ALL.

The current standings.

I remember seeing standings that disparate before, waaaaay back when I was in Highlander fandom and People magazine was having some sort of Sexiest Men poll or something. If I remember correctly the results were going to make it into the magazine, so someone in the fandom made a bot and Adrian Paul, Peter Wingfield, and Stan Kirsch made the top ten, and I'm pretty sure we got another few people in there. A bunch of people that nearly no one knows just because of a goddamn bot. Fabulous.

I don't know if Gilmore Girls fandom has a bot, but considering Veronica Mars fandom does it doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility. (They're just smart enough not to mention links to such bots in public posts, apparently. And ... heh.)

This kind of crap is why I can't stand Kristin. I expect fandom to do this sort of crap. But even if she IS a gossip columnist, she's still some form of journalist and you'd think she'd have something vaguely resembling ethics.

But a show of hands for anyone who actually expects her to say word one about cheating. Anyone? Anyone at all? No? Didn't think so.

KITTY!

This was the only picture I could get of George (with my brother) since apparently my camera drained two entirely new batteries in under a minute. (No, really. *growls*)



You can't really tell how beefy George is in that picture, although it helps if you remember my brother is about six feet tall.