Jimmy Wales wrote:
But seriously, although I voted the way you did (well, in the preliminary vote, at least... I neglected to vote in round 2, I'm sorry to report), lots of people *did* vote that way, right? So, unless they are like me, they probably did so without feeling retarded.
I refrained from voting altogether because I'm one of the logo authors and didn't want to cheat -- I obviously wouldn't have been able to refrain from voting my own contributions, and that would've been biased.
To answer the point you're raising, of course all the people who voted with the winning proposal did so in good faith, and they certainly didn't feel retarded while doing so (as they well shouldn't). But that they did by looking at some images, and maybe finding the winning logo as visually appealing or something. In the message you're commenting on I was trying to emphasize the *concept* in itself, I was hoping at least some people would realize that logo isn't what it should be when they realized how inappropriate its concept is for this project. I failed.
Gutza