Twenty-five nominees. I confess that it’s faster for me on Sunday if I’m not too picky, but this week saw a surplus of very good posts.<\/p>\n
Vote for the People’s Choice Award here<\/a>. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.<\/p>\n Please don’t spam the voting. I accept that there can be differing moral standards<\/a> on scamming social media<\/a>, but only one of those standards applies here. If you email 300 of your closest friends, telling them to vote for you, I will ignore all your votes. We’re interested in what is popular among people who participate here, not how popular you are with your buddies. That doesn’t even seem to me to be a complicated idea, but I’m explicating it nevertheless.<\/p>\n Voting runs through to 12 Noon MST Monday. I’ll announce the winners of this week’s awards soon thereafter.<\/p>\n Here is this week’s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees:<\/p>\n < ?PHP\n$AltEntries = array (\n\"Wade Young -- FSBOs\tHow to convert FSBOs into listings”, Twenty-five nominees. 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