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namevoter

namevoter noun: 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.

Noun

namevoter (plural namevoters)

  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?2000, Frans Bouma, “Whoa, the namevoters were busy this weekend!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Forms of namevoter

pluralnamevoters

Origin of namevoter

From name + voter.

Questions about namevoter

What does namevoter mean?
Namevoter means 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.
What part of speech is namevoter?
Namevoter is a noun.
What is the plural of namevoter?
The plural of namevoter is namevoters.

Words near namevoter in the dictionary

  1. nametagged
  2. nametags
  3. nametape
  4. nametapes
  5. nameth
  6. namevoter
  7. namevoters
  8. namevoting
  9. namewise
  10. nameword
  11. namewords

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