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[Meghan]

Originally Posted by roguerouge

Dude, I'm an ordinary gamer. I've already gone above and beyond for this person by reading her lengthy posts ...

If she wants to advocate effectively for her views to persuade an audience, perhaps she should type out what she said on her podcast on these products rather than using cusswords to describe them two links away.

Dude, you quoted me from a different site-- a site which is for the podcast you don't want to listen to. You are taking my comments which refer to that episode.

I'm fine with you not wanting to listen- podcasts aren't for everyone and mine isn't for every podcast listener.

But you can't take what I say about an episode and bring it here and say I'm not supporting my evidence.

Once again- if you'd like to argue my points explaining why I feel a few products should not have been nominated, let's take it to the appropriate venue and I will type out my responses. This thread is not for that, not for me to persuade an audience of those facts and is definitely not about me.

What this thread is about is the fact that a judge resigned because of his perceptions of the ENnies misdoings. And that opens the door to discussion of the ENnies misdoings in general.

The 3 main points still stand that 1) A judge resigned over his perception of the mishandling of the process (I'm summarizing intent there), 2) an ineligible product made it into the consideration while others which didn't follow the process exactly were cast out and 3) A judge's name is on the back of one of the books which to me signifies lack of objectivity.

Add that into the mix of just 2 points that came up previously (and just ones I know about): 4) A podcast last year was forced to drop out which caused a lot of hurt feelings over reasons dubious as best and 5) This year categories were combined which caused a bit of an uproar as well.
I'll add in a #6 to say folks here arguing that the contest shouldn't even strive to be objective I feel is an issue as well.

#5 I put because while I see full well that the rules say combination of categories may happen and don't necessarily feel it was a bad decision, the fact remains it did make some people loose faith in the system- justified or not- and that should be taken as feedback as well.

I'll reiterate- I still believe the awards are a good thing and can be made to be better. These items could be avoided in the future by a few simple fixes. Will it make the awards perfect? Of course not- other problems will come up, but why not learn from mistakes instead of just excusing them away and ignoring them? Why not try to appear as if feedback is being taken seriously? A judge dropped out- there should be more of a response than a press release making him seem like the bad guy.