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<blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 307657" data-attributes="member: 4">Been thinking about Ryan's idea...I personally am feeling less and less &quot;turned on&quot; by Ryan's suggestion.&nbsp; The original way has the judges picking the five best products, and thus the nomination really means something and you know those are probably among the five best products, and that the winner (whoever it turns out to be by popular vote) will be one of the five best products that year.&nbsp; The &quot;new&quot; way has the judges evaluating the five most popular products, and thus the nomination means a lot less, and there's no assuring that the &quot;winner&quot; is actually among the best from that year.&nbsp; If I had to pick the lesser of two evils, I'd say voting for the one most popular of the five best is preferable to judging the one best out of the five most popular.&nbsp; &nbsp;In addition, I forsee problems with keeping juging results secret beyond the end of the contest.&nbsp; If I were about to vote on a slate of potential judges, I would want to know what their voting records were (from previoius years) so I'd have a chance to select someone who matched my taste in products.&nbsp; And I just get a feeling that having a very few elected people pick &quot;one best&quot; instead of &quot;five best&quot; will put a huge burden on them and create unnecessary conflict in our community.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EricNoah, post: 307657, member: 4"] [b]Been thinking about Ryan's idea...[/b] I personally am feeling less and less "turned on" by Ryan's suggestion. The original way has the judges picking the five best products, and thus the nomination really means something and you know those are probably among the five best products, and that the winner (whoever it turns out to be by popular vote) will be one of the five best products that year. The "new" way has the judges evaluating the five most popular products, and thus the nomination means a lot less, and there's no assuring that the "winner" is actually among the best from that year. If I had to pick the lesser of two evils, I'd say voting for the one most popular of the five best is preferable to judging the one best out of the five most popular. In addition, I forsee problems with keeping juging results secret beyond the end of the contest. If I were about to vote on a slate of potential judges, I would want to know what their voting records were (from previoius years) so I'd have a chance to select someone who matched my taste in products. And I just get a feeling that having a very few elected people pick "one best" instead of "five best" will put a huge burden on them and create unnecessary conflict in our community. [/QUOTE]

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