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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dextra" data-source="post: 3317851" data-attributes="member: 5705">In case anyone cares...I was asked elsewhere why we're opening up the positions of judges and voting to the gaming community online, here's my (slightly edited) answer:First of all, I was sick of the original mechanic of using an EN World poll for the judge selection.  I disliked how you could see the results as they unfolded, and how it seemed as though your chances of being elected a judge were directly proportional to your post count and popularity on EN World.  (No insult meant to the previously-elected, popular judges- I like and respect them, and they've done a great job!)  Also, there are some inherent flaws with the counting method of the polls.  The Single Tranferrable Vote combined with a secret ballot would present the best results - and less easy min/maxed voting manipulation.So with the fact we were going to be changing around the voting method, we started considering changing a little more!Secondly, over the years the ENnies have evolved from being a d20 award to being the RPG award.  In order to reduce the (real or perceived) d20 bias associated with the Awards because of their origins with EN World, we decided to open up the voting for the products to non-EN Worlders a few years back.  This year is the natural progression of making it more accessible to gamers (well, at least those online!)Two years ago (IIRC) we introduced the concept that there must always be at least one new judge and one experienced judge, that way preventing the nominations from becoming too predictable, but also ensuring a little bit of continuity.  Still, though, the judge selection based entirely from the EN World pool, and elected by EN Wolrders exclusively made for what could turn out to be an EN World popularity contest.By opening not only the nominations to all gamers, but having all gamers vote for the nominees, I think we're going to create a more representative voice of gamers online.  The ENnies are already touted as the première RPG awards, it's time that all gamers, not just EN Worlders, be more actively involved in the entire process from beginning to end.</blockquote>

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