namevoter

English

Etymology

name +‎ voter

Noun

namevoter (plural namevoters)

1. (demoscene) One who votes for an entry in a demoscene competition on the basis of its author or demogroup, rather than the actual merits of the work.
   • 2000, "Frans Bouma", Whoa, the namevoters were busy this weekend! (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     how bad is the rest of the releases from evoke2000 democompo, because the haujobb demo was the overall winner! or is this again a true example of namevoting? How could such a demo win a democompo?

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• namevoting