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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pramas" data-source="post: 3329062" data-attributes="member: 995">For every Robin Laws there are at least 20 chuckleheads. The thing about the Origins Awards is that their story is complicated and no one likes complicated stories. They want nice easy answers instead. What happened with GAMA and by extension the OAs a couple of years ago is not easy to explain and the trouble it would take to do so would be wasted. The average gamer doesn't care about GAMA's politics. Hell, the average industry person doesn't either. I'd say there are two important lessons to be learned from the Origins Awards:1) Good intentions are not enough. Many, many people with the best of intentions have been involved in the Origins Awards. Charles Ryan and Nicole Lindroos, good and decent people both, spent many years trying to make the Origins Awards better to this day they are vilified in some quarters for their efforts. 2) Just because no one has messed with you doesn't mean they won't. The Ennies to date have been great and they have avoided many of the things that harmed the OAs. This does not make them immune to being messed with.</blockquote>