It's hard to overstate how unimportant this is.
A non-binding online poll to help pick who will be on the cover of a dying news magazine. Notable recent winners include Vladimir Putin and, uh, "you" as well as "A Protestor".
A non-binding online poll to help pick who will be on the cover of a dying news magazine. Notable recent winners include Vladimir Putin and, uh, "you" as well as "A Protestor".
Don't forget Hitler!
And G.Bush Jr, twice.
And Obama, twice.
(In fact, you'd be pressed to fill more than one hand counting the pleasant people on the list)
They claim it's the "most influential person, for better or worse", but don't admit that's as long as the person did not really upset the status quo.
The idea that Snowden might be Time POY is laughable. The "trolls" know this, which is why they make a mockery of the poll each year.
In a way, hacker news could make up an award based on internet votes and vote Miley Cyrus as the Greatest Creative Mind of the last 100 years. Wikipedia editors will be all over that.