I followed the link on the left to nominate PortableApps under the last category, "Most likely to change the way you do everything". It seemed the most appropriate one. Is that the one y'all chose as well? While the dev one was appropriate, I tend to view PortableApps.com as more a revolutionary force as opposed to usefulness. Because let's face it, the forks of the menu do more, and the apps themselves sometimes take a feature or two off to make it portable. They're not more useful than their installed counterparts, as for what they do. It's the portability that makes them special and that's the point. To not have to reinstall Firefox and sync the profile folder, to just be able to carry it on a flash drive.
I hope everyone here votes - you don't have to join SourceForge to do it; you just need an email address (and you have to click a link in the email). If your adblocker is blocking it or for whatever reason the link isn't showing up for you, here's what I clicked on:
https://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=PortableA...
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Twice. Multiple email accounts are great. Hopefully, PortableApps.com wins.
Hey! Where'd it go?
Don't Cheat!!!!!!
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Just wanted to add that you can vote for one project in more than one category. I voted for PA in "Best Project" and "Most likely to change the way you do everything".
I voted for Best Project. PA definitely fits in that category.
The shoe fits but there is a more comfortable shoe labeled "Most likely to change the way you do everything".
I voted in that category. And others that I showed PA to vote there as well.
Limits are for people with no imagination.
Sending this back to the top because of the finals. I didn't realize it was a different link until I really looked at it. Take note, it's a new vote. (Totally did not mean to rhyme that.)
I voted with my "portable" Gmail account, but when I get home, I'll vote with my home account. Maybe both of them. Maybe my wife's as well - would that be pushing it, maybe? Or will they see the same IP and disregard all or all but one (in either case excepting the work vote)?
I didn't agree with some of the categories - commercial product, for example? How is PA commercial, aside from JTH trademarking the logo? The Suite and apps aren't for sale. Still, SF must have known what they were doing letting it in. It was my favorite SF project for all categories, but the "overall" one gave me pause. Audacity and KeePass are both very good programs, I love both of them, but PA just eclipses all. It kind of even eclipses Firefox, partially because of Portable Firefox, which is kind of a circular argument, but in this case, it works for me.
We're working with hardware distributors to pre-bundle a branded version of the menu for a fee. And with publishers of commercial software to be able to publish in PortableApps.com Format.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Your voting style is what makes these awards worthless. And it's not just you, thousands of others do the same. It would be nice if the awards could be based on the IP address of the voter rather than the vote itself. That might make them a little more honest. As it is now they are just a big marketing joke.
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Oh. Right. Forgot about that.
I believe the term you're looking for is "popularity contest". And that's basically correct. In any case, there's no real way to prevent someone from gaming a poll. As for me, I voted twice. Big deal. As you say, others do it as well, and probably on a larger scale. You could say both of the computers I use PortableApps on voted for PortableApps and that sounds a little more fair. If nobody else, Microsoft agrees with me (per-computer rather than per-user licensing)...
Then how honest is any poll? Well, you have TV and radio polls, where they only call people whose opinions they care about (usually by demographs). Then you have web polls which can be gamed by clever individuals. And then there's polls that are rigged from the start - WWE does this, most famously at the pay-per-view Cyber Sunday. The answer is that no poll is 100% honest. But if you can trust that the poll taker is relatively honest - and I think SourceForge is relatively trustworthy - then the results aren't completely worthless. Because in any case, the projects that win will receive more attention, and what's good for one open-source application is good for most others.