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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 3324350" data-attributes="member: 13098">Pardon my indignation Rasyr.  Because really I enjoy reading your posts.  I also appreciate that you have concerns pover the ENnies.Allow me to clarify that.  I appreciate your concerns as a fellow board member and as a gamer.  I have been a long time fan of ICE.  I, however, do not speak in any meaningful way for how the ENnies are managed or conducted.  I am a gamer that can vote and that is the extent of my input.  But I have a certain amount of indignation simply because anybody else could begin the same way that the ENnies began.  It was through hard work that the ENnies have become what they are.  Morrus owns the ENnies, pure and simple.  I believe it would appear to be disingenuous to try to completely seperare them.  How many people would truly believe it?  How many people would complain that the ENnies are now trying to pretend that they aren't associated with EN World.  The collective we of the boards helped build this award by offering the weight of this community to drive it forward.  Now to proclaim that this community is what keeps it from being a fan award, that we are only capable of being a d20 fan award, is somewhat disappointing.  Because without this community where would the ENnies be?  I'm sorry you have upset fans.  But I do have to wonder if they are upset because the voting is at EN World, or if it is just because the voting isn't at their venue of choice.  EN World has thousands of silent members.  Heck, a single post on the forums puts you into at least the top 50% of posters.  Asking somebody to sign up and participate once a year really isn't all that much to ask.  For those that really don't like it, fix the problem.  Create your own awards.  Build the community and borrow the momentum and surpass the ENnies.  That's what Morrus did.I'm not debating your concerns on how the judging is administered.  Frankly I don't have the background.  But I do want you to understand why it sticks in my craw just a little to see an insistence that the ENnies be wholely seperate from EN World.</blockquote>

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