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Fan reviews are a standard practice. Does Pyramid even pay for reviews any more?

This is exactly as important as other instances of the law of fives.

Are you getting paid for the new compilation? If not, then no. Given the prevalnce of work for hire, recompilations usually don't occasion any further payments, so it's not a issue. Plus, of course, increasing the mandatory non-industry period for judges actually solves this problem by putting...

It depends on whether he got paid in something other than comps. I'm sure the awards admins can handle vague areas as well as they did in the past. It's merely the duration of the rule that's too short.

The trouble with one year is that products are often planned up to two years in advance. Plus, you do have people who have low but regular working cycles, especially in layout and art. Experience is the last thing that should inform fan judging if the idea is to be representative of fan...

See, I'd say, "Sounds like a pretty evil place. Maybe you better do something about it!"

No, there are already rules against having industry involvement for a one year period. This is insufficient (I recommend at least 3 years and probably 5). The fact that this regulation exists indicates that it obviously isn't as difficult to ascertain involvement as many suppose. There are...

No, I said they fudged their own rules (which they did; ironically, Diaglo thought the double-dipping wasn't appropriate, indicating as much) but I did *not* say they cooked things to get a "desired" result. I didn't imply anything, but you did infer something fairly foreign to what I was...

When did I call his integrity into question? Did I accuse him of lying, taking bribes or engaging in any form of unethical behaviour whatsoever? I'll direct you to this: and this:

I think that having personal insults and an actual threat of violence from other posters pass without moderation indicates something that's not partucularly healthy about the climate of discussion regarding the ENnies. I can't think of another thread on this site where a comment like: Would...

I can see Tim Dugger's concerns in that ENP has an interest in promoting the pdf market in general and the d20 brand -- and keeping things centered on this site does help do that. Now my opinion is that this is unavoaidable, but "unavoidable" is not the same thing s "nonexistant," so instead of...

I think you know what it means, as this is an RPG forum where the term is brought up constantly. The fans didn't nominate. They voted on the slate available. Fortunately, we live in a world where it is possible to anticipate this phenomenon and approach it reasonably. In elections of al...

Some of the judges have industry ties. And they fudged the rules for their own categories with Shackled City. If you believed otherwise on the latter, you wouldn't have voted against including it, would you?

I don't know where you think you're being insulted.

Well, first you'd have to figure out your gross from various streams during each stage of the awards (not *from* the awards). I'm honestly not sure how you could next realistically estimate your gross *without* the awards (since that situation has never existed) and apply the cost of the awards...

You weren't all of last year's voters, were you?

Remember that this was in reference to Billd91, who said that there shouldn't necessarily be industry restrictions. If you had a significant number of active industry people you'f get problems like this. For to OAs, the size of the Academy is supposed to take care of this. Then again, I have no...

I'm not talking about the profitability of the ENnies, though. They naturally don't make any money.

Because I have an active financial interest in the hobby. I'd like the fan award to be an actual fan award.

Yes. The judges fudged their own rules. Because we'e not talking about a TV show. We're talking about substantial differences in content (like dozens of pages of adventure material as the dominant content of the book) between the eventual winner and every competitor in the category. D'you...