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It's hard to overstate how unimportant this is. A non-binding online poll to help pick who will be on the cover of a dying news magazine. Notable recent winner
by eli 13y ago
It's hard to overstate how unimportant this is.
A non-binding online poll to help pick who will be on the cover of a dying news magazine. Notable recent winners include Vladimir Putin and, uh, "you" as well as "A Protestor".
- waylandsmithers 13y ago| Notable previous winners include Vladimir Putin and, uh, "you" and "A Protestor". Don't forget Hitler!
- sparkie 13y agoAnd Stalin, twice. And G.Bush Jr, twice. And Obama, twice. (In fact, you'd be pressed to fill more than one hand counting the pleasant people on the list) They claim it's the "most influential person, for better or worse", but don't admit that's as long as the person did not really upset the status quo. The idea that Snowden might be Time POY is laughable. The "trolls" know this, which is why they make a mockery of the poll each year.
- samograd 13y agoObamba...isn't he that guy that won the Nobel Peace Prize?
- eli 13y agoActually I think there's a chance they do pick Snowden, but I don't care because it's really of very little consequence. I'm sure Time cares much more about selling magazines than maintaining the political status quo.
- Atroxide 13y agoThe audience of the (dying) magazine industry doesn't come close to the audience of snowden's message. your comment kind of proves that snowden doesn't have a chance, because choosing him won't increase sales.
- ghaff 13y agoI think there's actually a very good chance. These are journalists doing the picking after all although their selection will likely have pretty much zero to do with the results of an Internet poll. (The chances of it being Miley Cyrus on the other hand are about as close to zero as you can get.)
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- lsiebert 13y agoRemember how he wanted the story not to be about him?
- corin_ 13y agoStalin and Hitler didn't upset the status quo?
- adrianmalacoda 13y agoSince then they've shied away from selecting "controversial" figures. Hence why bin Laden didn't get it in 2001, for example.
- jrs99 13y agoThe poll really just mocks itself.
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- tomp 13y agoHitler probably impacted the world more than all of the above combined.
- nickff 13y agoDepends on what you mean by "impact", as Stalin and Mao were both responsible for more famine, torture, and death than even Hitler. On the other hand Hitler's "impact" was probably more relevant to Time's audience (in the USA and Great Britain).
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- jrs99 13y agoDon't forget, Awesome Award based on internet votes will be spammed all over Wikipedia, providing free advertising that points to Time Magazine, and wikipedia editors believe any award is some authoritative measure of success. In a way, hacker news could make up an award based on internet votes and vote Miley Cyrus as the Greatest Creative Mind of the last 100 years. Wikipedia editors will be all over that.
- kaonashi 13y agoUnimportant, but revealing.