VOTING THREAD: List of Colors

[StarSock64]

StarSock disagreed with this, and she thinks that if you're going to vote for the best entry you should vote for the best entry out of ALL of them, regardless of a tie. In other words, she didn't think I should vote for either of their entries (therefore not breaking the tie) because I didn't believe that either of them were the best overall entry, as she said above.
I believe that as the competition manager, not only do I have the right to vote for whoever I want (as does anyone who's voting, of course,) but also that in the event of a tie, it's my job to resolve that tie. Is it really "manipulating votes" to vote for anyone I want (even to break a tie) if my vote is still unbiased for the entry I think is better and I'm not actually screwing with anyone else's votes? I don't believe it is, and this is where we disagree. I can understand where she's coming from that people should vote for the entry they think overall is best but for me in particular, since I'm running the compo, I also have the responsibility to fix voting issues when they arise... right?

I think an average voter can do whatever they want to do and vote for any reason they want to. Breaking ties, voting for giggles, voting for the best, whatever.

But I think a compo manager should never use their vote to change the way rewards are distributed and how people place in the final results, which is exactly what you were aiming to do

That completely goes against the spirit of the competition. "Fixing the voting issues" should be done fairly, and I really don't think that something as artificial as "gee I don't want a tie because I can't figure out how to distribute the prizes, let me just use my vote as a tool to fix it" is fair and it renders the results kind of meaningless.

Sure you're voting for the "better of the two," but you shouldn't be voting for someone you wouldn't normally vote for in the first place, for something as stupid as fixing YOUR problem. The artists' entries and how they place should have nothing to do with YOUR problems with the ties

You already brought up the sprite-off before any of this even happened, so you should have just done that in the first place