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[El Mahdi]

Originally Posted by Morrus

Judges are NOT being paid.

You are welcome to disregard to ENnies for any reason you wish; I'll not argue with you on that. But be informed that judges are not being paid.

If you say they aren't being paid, then I believe they aren't. I'm sorry if my saying that has upset you. I was just basing that from what Zach said in his release. From the way he stated it, it sounded like a done deal. Perhaps a more correct way of saying it then is that it was proposed that judges get paid.

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"But it clearly is not to be. The ENnies feel that if you submit via link, you should pay an unprecedented submission fee to support the awards. In other words, they are asking you to pay them to consider your product's quality for the award. This donation, as proposed would go mainly to the ENnies, with a percentage going to each judge. Several individuals also wanted this as another "barrier" to the awards process, one of them going so far as to worry "we'll get tons of ill-considered crap that isn't worth the time to download". Hardly the right attitude for a judge, I'd say."

"I will tell you right now, I will not accept one red cent of that money. I'm not saying this because I want a pat on the back, I just want you to know where I stand, as I always promised I'd be direct with you. I disapprove of this measure entirely, and find it to be a move in the wrong direction for the openness and accessibility of the awards. Instead of making a move that in no way hurt the ENnies but instead possibly improved awards participation, ease, and lowering cost for the entrants, they chose to go with a measure that provided a new income source for the awards, but that would do nothing to grow the awards in any sense. Bear in mind, this is despite the ENnies allowing several last-minute "usual suspect" and much-vaunted companies to submit via link at the very end of the submission period last year (for no charge, of course)! I'm not sure where this will lead, or what impact it will have. But at least you'll know where I stood."

If this proposal was not accepted, then great also (I believe that's what Crothian said).

But then this brings up these questions for me:

If this proposal was rejected, why didn't Zach say so in his release?

If he wasn't there, or if this was decided after Zach left, what was the reason behind rejecting this proposal, and did Zach's resignation have anything to do with it?

If the proposal was rejected while Zach was still involved, how is it that he would make this such a prominent part of his reasons for resignation, especially if it had already been resolved?


Short of saying that he was speaking out of school, or was incorrect, the release from the ENnies didn't cover the above questions.

Maybe a point by point of what is incorrect in his release and statement of resignation, and possible explanations as to how any misunderstandings may have occured, might clear things up.