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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2633575" data-attributes="member: 7240">Let me tell you why I joined ENWorld. I joined because Teflon Billy campaigns. I was his roommate and he encouraged me to join ENWorld, partly because it was an exciting community but partly motivated by the fact that an election was coming up. Because he had supported me in my real life political career, I was scarcely going to turn him down. While he'd been telling me annecdotes about the forums for months, the thing that caused me to join and start posting was the fact that an election was coming. Cthulu's Librarian and JoeGKushner also both stated that they too actively campaign by signing up new ENWorld members. There is absolutely nothing "passive" about doing this anymore than registering voters and driving them to the polls is in a real life election. Furthermore, I don't think it's "dishonest" for people planning an election bid to restrain themselves from getting into a flamewar that might otherwise tempt them or spend that extra five minutes to offer an opinion or some advice that they might not otherwise provide.That's because ENWorlders seem to think that's important.What I'm suggesting, Umbran, is that lacking any objective standard for what makes a product good, I think the standard we should apply to the products we judge is the degree to which they are likely to be viewed by the community as good products. The more the judges' standards deviate from the standards of the community, the less satisfactory the result. There is no objective measure of whether a D20 product is good or bad. All we can measure is: how well will this product meet the needs of our community? The more representative the judges are of the community, the more effectively we can make that measurement.Well, despite the fact that I spend more time insulting them on these threads than most people, I will declare that I trust them a good deal more than you do.</blockquote>

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