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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EOL" data-source="post: 1040958" data-attributes="member: 823">I guess I'm a tiny bit unhappy (mostly about the fact that I had a post nearly done and then I somehow hit the back button and lost it.  *sigh*)  I have to confess that I mostly feel that it's inappropriate to comment because it would come across as whining or that I'm being a sore loser (especially since I didn't even get nominated. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )  But if I was going to throw my two cents into the ring I think there is one big issue I would like to see addressed (there are some minor issues as well but I don't think they're "systematic"):The category criteria are unclear.Right now some but not all of the categories list examples of what products might fit under that heading.  To take my own example I entered DireKobold.com in the Electronic Product category.  The guidelines were as follows:The problem with this statement is it only gives some examples it doesn't give any guidelines for what criteria are going to be used to choose who gets nominated or who the winning entry should be.  For some categories like best cover art this is probably fairly self-evident, but for a category like best electronic product or best aid or accessory I think an outline of the guidelines would be nice, something like:Now I'm not saying that those should be the actual guidelines for the Electronic Product category but having some idea of what criteria are going to be used (or perhaps "should be used" in the case of the public) would not only make entering the ENnies easier but it would make voting on them easier.  I think I hoped that the example category I gave above was the one that was being used, because I think I would of had a pretty good shot.  As it turns out looking at the actual category guidelines I wasn't even sure if I'd entered my product in the right category.Overall I'm actually pretty pleased with the ENnies and very, very appreciative of the job the judges did, and the complaint about the category criteria is in the scheme of things a minor issue, but you did ask. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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