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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HalWhitewyrm" data-source="post: 3686778" data-attributes="member: 4046">Denise, thanks a lot for clarifying what the actual reason for this bruhaha is. I do have something to say, if only just to get it off my chest:Frankly, I feel this is not reason enough and almost irrelevant because, according to the principle of "one person, one vote", the two votes cast by someone voting from work and from home, in the end, account for the two individuals living in the same household (a factual situation for more than half of the FTB staff). The ENnies do not require that a voter be a gamer or even knowledgeable of the nominees to cast a vote, reason enough to simply ask someone with the knowhow (i.e. a gamer spouse) to vote on their behalf, acting as a proxy. If I tell you that I voted twice, but also tell you that there are two individuals in my household, the principle of "one person, one vote" is still upheld.Was this eventuality considered by the board before making their decision?Now, if you tell me and it can be proven in some way that from a two-person household 3 votes were cast (or 2 votes from a single-person household), then yeah, absolutely, this is an obvious transgression.I know that at this point this is a done deal, and I don't honestly expect the decisions of the board to be retracted, lest you then lose credibility for wavering, but as I said in a post over at the FTB boards, this event calls into question not only the entire voting process but also the votes for every other nominee in the awards. I fully agree with this, and as I have said before, even if I feel that the case has been mishandled, at the end of the day I believe that the directors acted on their best intentions, and I do thank them for their largely-thankless work for the ENnies. I realize that as a result of this, the voting procedure will be evaluated and changed for future awards, which is a good step and one I welcome, as I also hope it will lead to further revisions of the rules of operation in order to avoid embarrasing issues like this one, for all involved, in the future.I would also like to support the idea of setting a forum specifically for the ENnies at the award's website, so that conversations dealing specifically with the ENnies can be conducted in the proper venue, as opossed to spilling it over to EN World or other forums.</blockquote>

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