| As someone who is relatively new to ENWorld, and new to the ENnies (this is the first year I knew anything about them and voted in), these revelations bother me. Maybe people take ENnei winners seriously, maybe they don't, but I know that before I joined ENWorld, and I saw an "ENnie Award Winner" tag on an item on RPGnow or other places, I thought it actually meant something and gave the item a closer look because of it. After reading some of this stuff, I can say I won't be voting in the ENnies again, or giving any consideration to that "Award Winner" tag again. Whether some publishers opinions or encounters with the ENnies and the ENnie judges were as expressed or not, the fact that an actual judge reveals that there is favoritism based on monetery incentives for judges is a huge deal. As I said before, I don't know that much about the ENnies or how they are structured, nominated, and judged, but this sounds like a pretty strong and valid instigation of impropriety. ENnies have just lost any validity with me.
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