2006 ENnies Judge Voting Poll/Thread

[diaglo]

I'll quote "The_Universe" from back in post #57

I'm Hispanic, Asian Pacific Islander (Filipino), Danish, and British.

ex US Air Force Brat born in Turkey. with 3 sisters, one of them my twin, no brother. but plenty of brothers in arms.

i consider myself a citizen of the World.


and just agreeing with TB and the Universe. although, most of the time I don't.
edit: but at the same time i agree with Xath and BU. i too would like to see a woman on the board. but i'd like to see one voted there for her qualifying reasons. not b/c she is a woman.

 

[Dextra]

Judge Candidates Campaigning

I have no issue with would-be judges campaigning, with a few provisos:

1. No campaigning in this thread.
2. No campaigning in the nominations thread.
3. No campaigning that disrupts an already-existing thread.
4. No campagining that disrupts other boards.
5. No coersion.
6. No dishonesty.

In other words, by all means start a "Vote for ME" thread, just don't piss anyone off for hijacking their thread. Stay in appropriate categories (General RPG is most appropriate). Include links in your sig. Heck, generate a graphic for your sig. Put signs on your lawn. Skywrite. Just don't offer bribes or threaten, and don't lie. Oh yeah, and let's avoid mud-slinging, mmmkay?

Get the vote out!

 

[nakia]

I think that there are other reasons other than a potential increase in voter turnout for making sure that we have at least once new judge every year. My main concern is publisher participation.

This is what I meant by the concerns of the "powers that be" in my earlier post. There may be things that have to change in order to keep the awards viable; Dextra and others (as organizers of the awards and caretakers of the site) are in a good position to know what those things are and (IMHO) empowered to change things to maintain and grow the Ennies and the site.

1. Incumbents: 3 positions.
2. n00b: 1 position
3. Wild Car: 1 position: can be a n00b, can be someone with judge experience
BUT, this assumes that in the future that current voter trends will hold true.

If you think "new blood" is necessary every year, then a better way to do it (IMHO) is to reserve a slot for a newbie, then just open the other four up. That both limits incumbents less (they have four possible slots instead of three) and keeps open the possibility of a complete overhaul of the judges table if the voters wish.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Crothian's "Why aren't you voting?" thread just got us 50 more votes.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Skywrite.

This sounds tempting...but how many other G'ville ENWorlders are there out there? Hmmm...may have to put a long message to explain things to the unbelievers.

 

[Belen]

I'll quote "The_Universe" from back in post #57

I'd agree with that statement except that women's perspectives are different from the male point of view. Also, the Ennies judges seem to be selected more based on popularity here at ENWorld and a high post count presence than objective qualifications.

Therefore, it is just as valid to vote for a female because she is female as to vote for Crothian because he is a good among posters.

I do not think we should set aside a slot for women or anything that PC, although I do think that we should have at least ONE slot open for new blood among the judging staff.

I would enjoy seeing a different perspective this time around. I was hoping to see more than one new judge, although that does not seem to be in the cards at the moment.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Crothian's "Why aren't you voting?" thread just got us 50 more votes.

Yeah, I noticed that. Xath really caught back up, and both she and I are at least a little closer to that #5 spot that diaglo's guarding.

Hmm...would another way to help get more votes be putting a Vote Here message up in the announcements thing that's currently saying "Ok, the server is now running the latest Apache & PHP packages. If you encounter problems & bugs, post them in Meta." ? If people haven't noticed that voting is going on(and Crothian thread proves that some at least are missing it that want to vote), then putting something like that up would make it more easily visible.

 

[DaveMage]

This sounds tempting...but how many other G'ville ENWorlders are there out there? Hmmm...may have to put a long message to explain things to the unbelievers.

I'm right here, Ankh.

 

[Crothian]

Therefore, it is just as valid to vote for a female because she is female as to vote for Crothian because he is a good among posters.

Even Crothian though doesn't want people to vote for him becasue he's a good among posters...you meant god right? Votes should be based on if the person can do a good job, which I'm hoping people think of me.

 

[Belen]

Even Crothian though doesn't want people to vote for him becasue he's a good among posters...you meant god right? Votes should be based on if the person can do a good job, which I'm hoping people think of me.

Well, I doubt many people read the qualification bios. I'll bet that most people vote for names that they recognize, which equates to high post count.

I do believe you're qualified and I voted accordingly, but there are others who I also think qualified and who would be new additions that are not getting the votes.