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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drawmack" data-source="post: 314415" data-attributes="member: 4981">Okay people want to "level the playing field" without excluding any publishers. I agree that this is a great idea. People also want to have more awards, I will comment on these seperatly as one really has nothing to do with the other, what's to stop WotC from putting out a pdf release, and actaully it could be argued that they already do on a monthly basis with their adventures and side trecks. anyway onto the comments.Leveling the Playing FieldMaybe I've had one to many classess in statistical analysis but give this so thorough though.First add an abstain radio button to every catagory this way people will not feel like they have to vote in every catagory.Second instead of just voting for a product the person also mandatorily rates their exposure to every product (unless abstaining). This process could be on a scale of something like own it, have read it, perused it, seen the cover and never heard of it. Now we have 5 moninations and 5 levels of exposure. For every product that a person lists as never heard of it in a catagory their vote in that catagory is weighted to be worth 20% less. For every product in a catagory that a voter lists as seen the cover their vote is worth 15% less. For every product that a voter lists as perused it their vote is worth 10% less. Finally for every product in a catagory that a voter lists as read it their vote is worth 5% less. Default this to never heard of it so if the person doesn't fill this in for a catagory their vote will not count at all. Now we will have votes that are weighted by the amount of exposure that the person has has to all the products in the catagory. So if someone has only seen one product in a catagory they can still vote for that product but their vote will in essence count as 1/5 of a vote. I think this would take care of all the issues with popularity and distribution.More CatagoriesHere are my ideas for additional catagories:1) Best FanBook or NetBook, we put blood sweat and tears into this out of pure love and deserve the recoginition.2) Best Digital Release - this covers all digital formats and not just pdf.3) Best Role-Playing Aid Program - Let's give these people some credit most of the give the stuff away.4) Best Product - over all.5) Best Writter6) Best Artist7) Best CartographerJust some food for though.</blockquote>

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