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<blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 3323071" data-attributes="member: 10177"><p>I think it isn't a point really worth arguing. The judges just nominate what they collectively believe to be the 5 best products in a category. The fans, who can be anyone, including industry professionals and publishers and freelancers are the ones who determine the top one in each category.</p><p></p><p>So the real question is are the judges trustworthy? I say they are likely to be more trustworthy than many and not as much as some. Plus there is no real way to get better unless you want to start paying for background checks, which still assures us of nothing because people in the government have Top Secret Clearances and the best back ground checks our country knows how to do, and too many of them have turned around and betrayed our country.</p><p></p><p>So I think we just need to accept the weaknesses of the system (unless you can think of an achieveable fix) and have fun with it.</p><p></p><p>As for the fans, who have the "real power" to select the best, how do you keep those fans from being publishers, writers, artists, and other RPG industry professionals? You can't. </p><p></p><p>So accept the weaknesses and just hope you make it through all the hoops to the top spot. Which is what everyone does.</p><p></p><p>You don't like the fact that so many ENWorlders get to vote? Nothing is keeping you from encouraging your fan base to sign up on ENWorld and vote for their favorites, is it?</p><p></p><p> That is why I first started coming here. I was initially a big fan of Necromancer and Goodman, still am, really. They asked us on their messageboards to go vote for our favorites. So I signed up and did. Here I am 4 or 5 years later now trying to become a Judge.</p><p></p><p>All I can say to you, and anyone else who considers voting for me, that I will judge all the products as fairly as I am capable of doing as a human being. Just like I am confident that every past judge has done their best to do. As well as everyone who puts their name into the hat this year.</p><p></p><p>If you can't live with that then you might as well as ignore every awards ceremony from the Presidential elections, to the Academy Awards on down. All of them require you to trust the judges and the voters.</p><p></p><p>To expect this, or any awards program, to be perfect, and perfectly fair, is an impossible and unfair expectation. We have to take its flaws into account, fix what we can, and run with it.</p><p></p><p>The best we can do is pay attention, look for things that can be improved upon, and accept the imperfections that cannot be fixed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Treebore, post: 3323071, member: 10177"] I think it isn't a point really worth arguing. The judges just nominate what they collectively believe to be the 5 best products in a category. The fans, who can be anyone, including industry professionals and publishers and freelancers are the ones who determine the top one in each category. So the real question is are the judges trustworthy? I say they are likely to be more trustworthy than many and not as much as some. Plus there is no real way to get better unless you want to start paying for background checks, which still assures us of nothing because people in the government have Top Secret Clearances and the best back ground checks our country knows how to do, and too many of them have turned around and betrayed our country. So I think we just need to accept the weaknesses of the system (unless you can think of an achieveable fix) and have fun with it. As for the fans, who have the "real power" to select the best, how do you keep those fans from being publishers, writers, artists, and other RPG industry professionals? You can't. So accept the weaknesses and just hope you make it through all the hoops to the top spot. Which is what everyone does. You don't like the fact that so many ENWorlders get to vote? Nothing is keeping you from encouraging your fan base to sign up on ENWorld and vote for their favorites, is it? That is why I first started coming here. I was initially a big fan of Necromancer and Goodman, still am, really. They asked us on their messageboards to go vote for our favorites. So I signed up and did. Here I am 4 or 5 years later now trying to become a Judge. All I can say to you, and anyone else who considers voting for me, that I will judge all the products as fairly as I am capable of doing as a human being. Just like I am confident that every past judge has done their best to do. As well as everyone who puts their name into the hat this year. If you can't live with that then you might as well as ignore every awards ceremony from the Presidential elections, to the Academy Awards on down. All of them require you to trust the judges and the voters. To expect this, or any awards program, to be perfect, and perfectly fair, is an impossible and unfair expectation. We have to take its flaws into account, fix what we can, and run with it. The best we can do is pay attention, look for things that can be improved upon, and accept the imperfections that cannot be fixed. [/QUOTE]
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