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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 979354" data-attributes="member: 363">If you saw the discussions about the ENnies process after last year, and especially before this year's awards, you probably saw that the notion of a "judges choice" set of awards that were chosen concurrently with the popular vote had an overwhelmingly negative response. If the awards were entirely chosen by judges, with no popular vote, you can imagine how negative the reaction would be.The methods Morrus has used to try to make everything fair haven't been about eliminating the influence of popularity, exactly, but rather the influence of familiarity. That is, companies that can afford big marketing campaigns will be familiar to voters, while small companies will never have been heard of. What happens is that people will vote for something they've heard of, sight unseen, over something they haven't heard of, sight unseen. The current method attempts to address that, to give the small companies a chance. When it comes right down to it, though, the vote relies upon people voting their conscience. That is, the best case scenario is that the ENnies nominations will prompt people to actually check out the material before they vote, instead of simply voting according to what they've seen in an ad. Since the ENnies are intended to both honor and support the industry, getting people to explore the choices out there is the goal, more than simply honoring the most popular items, in my opinion. Of course, many of the most popular products are, indeed, very high quality. So, too, are there many high-quality products that you've never heard of that deserve a fighting chance. I can say that this is very true now - the quality of d20 products across the board has been raised greatly even since just last year. That quality seems pretty evenly distributed, even amongst products I'd never heard of before.I hope any of that makes sense or is relevant.</blockquote>

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