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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xath" data-source="post: 2625341" data-attributes="member: 17040">In my opinion...This certainly helps.  After all, I can't have much experience of who they are or what kind of judge they'd be if I've never heard of them.  The nomination blurb helps, but I'd like to see more.Familiarity yes, agreement no.  I tried to vote for people with a wide variety of views.  I felt that this way the results of the Ennies would be more applicable to the entire gaming population.Not particularly.  More like quality of posts.  I read reviews, and they tell me a bit, but you can learn just as much about a person from their posts.  It helps, but it's not everything.  Variety of experience is just as importance as variety in gaming preferences.  It helps get more well rounded results.Yes.  These positions require a lot of dedication.  I give some corrolation to dedication to ENWorld and the ENnies. Yes.  I think all of the previous judges have done a good job.  It stands to reason that they would do so again.Again for variety.  Not required by any means, but nice to have.Not particularly. People can have a high post count without contributing to the community.  Others can have under 500 posts, but their posts were all well thought out and meaningful.  (Not to imply that this is always the case, but I tend to look at quality as much as quantity).I read them all.  But I don't know how much they influenced my decision.Yes, definitely.  The internet can be very misleading, and people only see as much of you as you want them to see.  In person, it's a bit more difficult to hide things.  I have met and liked almost all of the people I voted for.  (As in I havn't met one, not that I don't like him)Familiarity with multiple systems is very important.  It makes it that much easier to understand and appreciate a new system that may be submitted into the competition.  Impartiality is useful, but so is bias.  You may be able to judge a mechanic by being impartial, but there's no such thing as an impartial vote on "best art."  And as I said above, I'd prefer a variety of bias.  Eloquence?  Meh.  As long as they can get their point across.  Don't get me wrong, the ability to express onesself goes a long way, but I only care about eloquence if they have to pull PC's duty of podium host.  That's where eloquence matters.</blockquote>

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