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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 1032650" data-attributes="member: 4">This is a really good, important conversation to be having.  What I'd like to do is carry it over to the Publisher's forum so the fans and the publishers can be in on the same conversation.  For reference, the "how to handle the 800lb gorrilla" conversation took place after the last ENnies (which is the first one WotC chose to enter) and the opinions ran the gammut from "find some way to keep them out completely because since they produce closed materials they don't have to play by the same rules" to "there should be no restrictions whatsoever on who participates".  It should be noted that the way the rule was set up this year also kept Kenzer out of the same categories that WotC couldn't enter.  One should also consider how the voting process was different this year.  This time, you weren't forced to choose between WotC and Malhavoc for Best Website, for instance -- you could rank them both.  It's hard to know how that affected things.  As always, we'll have a big discussion about all of this stuff and it will help Russ make decisions for next year, so keep letting us know what you think.  -------Now, my one added opinion:  I don't think that Cartography and the Art categories should have been "restricted" categories (I don't know if that was unintentional or not).</blockquote>