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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khairn" data-source="post: 3324559" data-attributes="member: 20153">I love these boards, this community and in the past have followed the ENnies with both my time and my $.  Its a shame that internet forums are such poor vehicles for having honest and open discussions.I've read this thread from top to bottom (yeah a masochist ... what can I say?) and I'm really disappointed in what I'm seeing.As an active member of this forum (and many others), a game designer and a publisher, Rasyr has honestly and without rancor started a thread to explain the reason's why ICE will no longer be participating in the ENnies.  He has brought up an example from last year where ambiguous rules and a lack of any direction caused what he (and ICE) believe is a problem with the integrity of the awards, and may be an indicator of future problems.He has also stated his concerns that the ENnies desire to be an industry-wide award, is compromised by its very active link with this site and D20 systems.  He's acknowledged that some actions have been taken to seperate the ENnies from being just a EN World & D20 award, but believes that more needs to be done before he (and ICE) return.Whether you agree with him or not, he has honestly and openly shared his views and explained the reasons why.  And he has done this on the only site where ENnies have active participation from voters and judges.For his candor and honesty he has been called a troll, told to hold the discussion in private, told to just suck it up and deal with, and told to encourage those gamers who don't like the D20 system to get involved on a D20 board in order to express their opinion.Has Rasyr's history on these and other boards been so bad that his opinion is tossed away like a copy of Synnibar?Wow. So much for open minded discussion.  You might want to shut down this thread before other publishers see it.</blockquote>

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