January 3, 2008
Heroes and Villains 2007: The Vote
After eight days, twenty-four heroes, and twenty-four villains,* Torontoist's Heroes and Villains 2007 is done! Hooray! There's just one little thing left: naming a Superhero and Supervillain. As promised, that extraordinarily prestigious decision rests with you, our readers.
You can vote below for your Superhero and Supervillain of 2007. We'll give you a week––until, say, midnight on Thursday, January 10––and to heighten suspense, poll results will be totally private until we announce them in their entirety (with pretty graphs, maybe!) at noon on Saturday, January 12.
So take a few seconds to vote below for your for choice Superhero and Supervillain. If there's anyone or anything that you feel we left out, let us hear about it in the comments.
* Please note that the tag pages for heroes and villains are, for now, each missing the most recent entries, from December 30–January 2. It's a bug that's being fixed as we speak. Apologies!
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Small glitch: I voted for superhero, and it won't let me vote for supervillain.
Also, how do we see the results? :)
Pfft, reading is for suckers.
Ahh, I see what you did there: left=good, right=bad.
This must be what voting is like in a communist country, to ensure that everyone votes correctly. Wouldn't that be swell?
james_a, you shouldn't have any problem voting for both; maybe try refreshing? E-mail me at david@torontoist.com and we'll work it out either way. Worst case scenario, I can modify the poll results by adding one extra vote for the villain of your choosing.
And as rek caught and pointed out, we're waiting to reveal the results until next next Saturday.
When isn't David Miller and the rest of city council in the villains column???
Lets see Miller dropped the ball on taxes, the provincial election and his campaign for 1 cent of the GST. And that's just the start. He hasn't done boo for the homeless, the poor or anyone else.
Take Rob Ford off the list and replace it with the entire Toronto City Council. They've spent too long arguing amongst themselves to do any good for the city.
I can't vote Jet Fuel as a hero? This is so wrong.
What happens if I get home and vote again from there?
Well, that's kinda cheating, and we hope that people won't cheat. The polls––not perfectly, but decently––prevent cheating from the same computer, but we can't control it if people go computer-hopping to vote multiple times. We just ask that you wouldn't do that.
When viewed all at once the entirety of the Heroes & Villains entries look rather incomplete as a representation of Toronto.
I think voting from multiple computers is fair game. As this is in no way a scientific poll, any sort of "cheating" is irrelevant anyways.
Yes, it doesn't actually matter, really, but, you know, it'd be nice if people didn't cheat. You're supposed to vote just once. Either way, we have more than 400 votes for each category right now, so it'd be pretty futile for someone to try to rock the vote.
And rocketeer, that's fair––of course it's incomplete! Keep in mind that it was structured in a very particular way: everyone on staff (who participated) picked one hero and one villain, no more, no less. This is by no means a comprehensive list, though it's certainly more diverse than just naming the ten best and ten worst whatevers of the year. But there are definitely people and things missing: Ed Mirvish or Jane Jacobs as heroes, for instance. David Miller is definitely thought of as a villain by many people. But we stuck to a format that I think worked really well.
A fitting video for this competition - or just a good excuse for a laugh. Gotta love South Park: http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ZpQdzCtJE8
I too had to refresh a few times before the polldaddy thing showed up, but then it worked fine :D