Humans are very slow learners

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:42 am

Online voting to choose San Diego’s Major League Soccer (MLS) team currently shows “Footy McFooty Face” leading other possible names by a wide margin.
By Saturday morning, “Footy McFooty Face” had 5,229 votes, well over four times as many as of the other possible names.

Seems that these people never learn. Online voting is a terrible idea.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:46 am

It could easily also be argued that the online voting is working just as they expected.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:54 am

malchior wrote:It could easily also be argued that the online voting is working just as they expected.

You should run one to name you next kid then. I look forward to seeing pictures Baby McBabyface after it is born. Hey, at least it is gender neutral.

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:16 pm

Says the man who still supports Trump

But it's not just on-line voting. Back in the 70's the Stanford U student body had to vote for a name for the football (I think) team.

They chose "Robber Barons", which would have been great, except administration vetoed the idea.

Kelric · Post by **Kelric** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:43 pm

Link went to breitbart. I closed my browser instantly. Fake news.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 1:19 am

tgb wrote:Says the man who still supports Trump

But it's not just on-line voting. Back in the 70's the Stanford U student body had to vote for a name for the football (I think) team.

They chose "Robber Barons", which would have been great, except administration vetoed the idea.

It's also why we have the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs.

The students voted for the least fearsome amd aggressive mascot they could and it so ticked the chancellor off that he immediately decided they would be the sea lions.

He got overruled.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:11 pm

Rip wrote:
malchior wrote:It could easily also be argued that the online voting is working just as they expected.
You should run one to name you next kid then. I look forward to seeing pictures Baby McBabyface after it is born. Hey, at least it is gender neutral.

Based on the results of these types of online votes, it would be a great idea *if* I was trying to drum up publicity for my child.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:16 pm

malchior wrote:
Rip wrote:
malchior wrote:It could easily also be argued that the online voting is working just as they expected.
You should run one to name you next kid then. I look forward to seeing pictures Baby McBabyface after it is born. Hey, at least it is gender neutral.
Based on the results of these types of online votes, it would be a great idea *if* I was trying to drum up publicity for my child.

Baby McBabyface. It has a name!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:40 pm

When I was growing up, long before the concept of online voting, the local newspaper held a competition to name the new mall that was opening up. My favorite entry, "Buddy Gribbles Best-est Mall!" lost by only a few votes.

I think that was the moment my childhood died...

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:05 pm

Damn Ruskies!

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 8:11 pm

tangentially, there was a new local arcade that was holding a naming contest. my brother and i thought very long on this and submitted several entries (you could enter as many times as you wanted.)

the winning name? "[Owner name]'s Billiards and Games"

...you really needed to have a naming contest to come up with that?

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