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Originally Posted by Morrus  It's a policy; it was there before anyone submitted anything; everyone knew about it; it has always been there.
10 entries for a category, or it gets merged into another category. That's how it works.
If there were only nine entries, all a nomination would mean is "it wasn't in the worst half". Nothing to be proud of, really. Even 10 is fairly low in my opinion, but the line has to be drawn somewhere.
The fault does not lie with the ENnies, and it's not the ENnies you should be "infuriated" at and "heartbroken" about. The ENnies judges don't enter products, they just judge them. |
OK, back up a sec. I'm not saying I was infuriated at the Ennies. As I specifically said, I have a lot of respect for everyone involved in the Ennies. (If I didn't think they were important, I wouldn't have been liveblogging them, and possibly the only person to have done so.)
But coming in late to the process and looking at that category, and knowing all the work that goes into running an RPG website and putting together an RPG podcast, it was tough to accept that all those things were in a category fighting for the same honor. That's the infuriating and heartbreaking part, not directed anywhere in particular.
I'm not sure what the reason was that there were so few entrants into the category. At the time, I didn't know that 10 was the cutoff, but I was only helping with the submissions of other people's sites and not my own (and had I known, I would have made more of an effort to get my site and other sites to enter.)
Obviously I know now the rule, and I feel pretty confidant that there are more things in place to mobilize the needed number this year. I am hoping, however, that the staff realizes that there is some frustration all around and reaches out to all of us here on the fan side (bloggers, site runners, podcasters, adventure makers, etc.) to improve the experience for everyone.
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