Namevoter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "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?"

Example

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"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?"

Etymology

From name + voter.

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