Jack & Hill nominated for Best Beauty Blog at the Fabbies

I feel like I should point out our nomination for this, which is quite nice and thank you very much.

I also feel like I should tell you that, in order to vote, you have to register for an account and give away personal information, including your date of birth and ZIP code. It seems like a marketing stunt for the company behind the awards, a way for them to up the amount of registered users they can claim, possibly as a tactic for selling off their company to the highest bidder. As such, the whole experience is quite tainted for me.

What I'm saying is: We're nominated, that's nice. Please only vote for us if you feel so strongly about our blog that you're willing to go through the palaver of yet another account sign-up to do so. Honestly, I only signed up to see how much hassle it would be for our readers.

Comments

[Jacq]

Well, I won't sign up and vote, but you can rest assured that I think your beauty blog is fab, and obviously the best one around!

[Lesley from Fashiontribes.com]

As one of the organizers of the Fabbies awards (with Manolo The Shoeblogger), we partnered up with Flux.com to do the Fabbies because they graciously agreed to build out the site for us as well as offer any technical assistance we would need. We approached them, not the other way around.

As two lone bloggers trying to organize this on behalf of the rest of the Lifestyle blogosphere (to try and help showcase what's great about what we do collectively), we don't have the unlimited resources or even time & money of big sites like the Webbies or Bloggies - which have amply demonstrated they could care less about our part of the blogosphere.

So, no, I have to disagree with you that this is a marketing gambit. Yes, registration is involved to participate, but that's the extent of it. There's really no ploy or hidden agenda. Instead of undermining each other, we should really all try and support each other.

[Jackie Danicki]

Where's the undermining, Lesley? And if it's not a marketing ploy, why force people to give so much personal information just to vote?

Frankly, I just know that most people don't need yet another online account to keep track of, so wanted to make clear that I didn't expect a single person to go to all this hassle just to cast a vote. My speculation about the reason for registration - at least on Flux's part - still stands. Can you give me an alternative explanation for the forced registration?

[Manolo the Shoeblogger]

Hello to the Jackie!

Many thanks for you comments, and congratulations on your well deserved nomination.

The reason that we at the Fabbies have instituted the registration process is to reduce the amount of possible cheating (it is so sad to consider that this would happen, is it not?) This sort of system is not uncommon for online polls and awards of various sorts.

Of the course, having said that, the Manolo completely understands, and indeed sympathizes, with your concerns. After all, few persons value their privacy as much as the Manolo does his.

So, you should perhaps consider doing what the Manolo does in these cases, register with the pseudonym. The Manolo sometimes uses the name Daniel Day-Hasselhoff for just this purpose.

Besos!

Manolo