This is ridiculous.
It's not pretending to be an elf for 5 hours a week that can at times make me feel embarrassed about my hobby, it's tempest in a teapot garbage like this. This is not Serious Business, nor should it be.
1. If you think the awards are stupid and biased, don't submit, don't participate.
2. Public resignations and public complaining about situations you're involved in never make you look good, no matter how right you are. It's rather Buddhist, really.
3. Judges are supposed to judge, and they're elected to boot. I don't care about the results unless there is evidence that the guidelines aren't being followed. If you don't like the choices, run for judge, but make sure to submit any of your own work or work affiliated with your own. We wouldn't want favoritism.
Furthermore, I think that some individuals are revealing more than they think they are when they refuse to trust the judgment of others without strict guidelines.
4. If you're only doing a podcast out of love, then why is this that important? Show me lost profits leading to lost livelihoods and then I'll care. It shouldn't matter anyway; sustained quality always rises to the top.
5. Morrus, and others involved in the Ennies: thank you for your time and effort. Don't let trash like this get you down.
NO! THIS IS NOT RIDICULOUS!
People have a way of deciding what's serious, or not serious, for themselves, based on what's important to THEM. If it's not serious for you, fine, take your own advice and "DON'T PARTICIPATE". However, I feel that the above post you wrote puts the lie to your not taking this seriously. If it wasn't serious to you, I don't think you would have posted at all.
You have some good points about many of the posts on this thread. Your opinion of what Zach did, and the things that a certain disgruntled podcaster said, are your opinions. I agree with you for the most part, but agree even more that you're entitled to your opinions, and your right to voice those opinions. I wouldn't call your opinions "
ridiculous" or "
garbage", I'd appreciate if you'd extend the same courtesy to everyone else.
Whether you agree with what Zach said, or how he did it, it was something that needed to be dealt with by those involved with the ENNies. It was an accusation of impropriety, that whether true or not, could not be ignored by those involved with this. Up until this thread, that is exactly what was happening. The problem
was being ignored. The initial response to Zach's resignation on the ENNies site was a non-response. Whether you feel the ENNies are important or not, or serious or not, there are those who do. There are people who think that "ENNies Award Winner" tag on products means something, and Zachs "letter" cast the value of that in doubt. Whether or not it's right or wrong for Zach to reveal things that were discussed behind closed doors (however, I do feel that was wrong), once he did it, it had to be dealt with.
I feel that the people involved with the ENNies did a very good job of revealing exacly what really happened behind those closed doors, but until this thread, they weren't doing that. There were some people, that in their opinions, had some valid concerns and voiced those concerns in this thread. Because of those posts, those involved with the ENNies rose to the occasion and dealt with those concerns in an excellent manner. And I feel, because they responded, they sufficiently had their ire up to very soundly deal with a certain disgruntled podcaster.
I think after someone reads this thread, and I mean the entire thread, not just skimming it, they will realise for themselves that this is a non-issue. However, the same couldn't be said
before the Staff and Judges of the ENNies spoke up. What happened here is that the truth behind this issue was revealed,
because of the discourse and opinions of those who contributed to this thread. I for one, definitely do not consider that ridiculous.
), etc.
It's kind of like a car wreck, I can't stop watching.
