25 + 20 points
Personal Promotion Campaign by Jackie H
June 5th, 2007 12:55 PM / Location: 37.77387,-122.4318
My visual documentation of this task is sort of thin because I wasn't planning on doing a proof initially...I suppose this is just one more example of an sf0 task that spontaneously erupted as part of the game and happens to fit a certain task definition really well.
Some of you may remember my "Burn Unit 4 Senate" player photo. I created it in the ever-useful Microsoft Paint in response to one of Burn Unit's Campaign Trail e-mailings to people who supported him early on. I extremely carefully designed it to be nicely shoddy, reflecting Burn Unit's own player photo alterations. As the first person to vote for him, and since I met him while he was visiting San Francisco, liked him, and thought he had great ideas for sf0, I decided to respond with something that would be quite public, at least as far as sf0 is concerned. I also decided that doing something like replacing my player photo with a campaign "lawn sign" would inject some more excitement in the Campaign Trail competition in general. At the time, I was fairly high up on the first player page, so I figured a bunch of people would see it and take notice. It seemed to work; Poon/Lowteck (Grace Slick) followed with their own "lawn signs" in response, and invaded the sf0 front page with signs from their featured and semi-featured tasks as well. Cyber Kitty followed suit.
I decided I couldn't just let this copy-cattish-ness slide and followed with my own front-page campaign, and replaced all of my solo task completions that made the cut with campaign signs for Burn Unit, since I didn't want to implicate my various collaborators in a campaign they might not have voted for.
I don't really know whether my pro-Burn Unit signs actually helped his campaign procure any actual votes, but I do think it's clear that they generated a great deal more interest in his task (and the others'), and so probably led to many indirect votes, sort of as a marketing campaign or something. Did you notice my signs? Did you like them? I normally try to keep a low profile on the site so this was fairly out of character for me.
Some of you may remember my "Burn Unit 4 Senate" player photo. I created it in the ever-useful Microsoft Paint in response to one of Burn Unit's Campaign Trail e-mailings to people who supported him early on. I extremely carefully designed it to be nicely shoddy, reflecting Burn Unit's own player photo alterations. As the first person to vote for him, and since I met him while he was visiting San Francisco, liked him, and thought he had great ideas for sf0, I decided to respond with something that would be quite public, at least as far as sf0 is concerned. I also decided that doing something like replacing my player photo with a campaign "lawn sign" would inject some more excitement in the Campaign Trail competition in general. At the time, I was fairly high up on the first player page, so I figured a bunch of people would see it and take notice. It seemed to work; Poon/Lowteck (Grace Slick) followed with their own "lawn signs" in response, and invaded the sf0 front page with signs from their featured and semi-featured tasks as well. Cyber Kitty followed suit.
I decided I couldn't just let this copy-cattish-ness slide and followed with my own front-page campaign, and replaced all of my solo task completions that made the cut with campaign signs for Burn Unit, since I didn't want to implicate my various collaborators in a campaign they might not have voted for.
I don't really know whether my pro-Burn Unit signs actually helped his campaign procure any actual votes, but I do think it's clear that they generated a great deal more interest in his task (and the others'), and so probably led to many indirect votes, sort of as a marketing campaign or something. Did you notice my signs? Did you like them? I normally try to keep a low profile on the site so this was fairly out of character for me.
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