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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christoph the Magus" data-source="post: 2406834" data-attributes="member: 1480">OK.  #1:  Rasyr said, "...You can join the Academy and help too!!"To which you replied, "Prove to me that the Origins Awards are worth saving, and I'll be happy to help."Since the offer was for you to join to help fix things, and you're saying that you'd be happy to help once he proves the awards are worth saving (and the only way he can do that is to fix them, I'd imagine), it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to say that you're offering to join once the dirty work is done.  But now you're saying that you might not join anyway, which baffles me.  Why wouldn't you join a professional group that was taking steps in the right direction and cleaning up their act?  (I'm not saying that they are taking the right steps at the moment.  For all I know, they're planning on hosting next year's awards at the local Hooters.)#2:  Can't really comment on the vote-rigging, etc.  It hasn't been mentioned in this thread and I don't follow industry gossip enough to know.  I do know that a LOT of people/companies seem to be upset with the awards, which indicates that there are serious problems.  Which means that serious changes need to be made to fix them.  But if everyone takes the attitude of, "prove to me they're worth saving", then there are going to be a lot of people sitting around watching and not too many people helping to turn the awards into something good.#3:  So you like the Ennies better.  Good for you.  There's nothing wrong with that.  But why do you have to pee in the Cheerios of a guy whose trying to make the Origins Awards better?  Doesn't it benefit everyone to have the Origins Awards actually mean something?  And what do you mean that "the ENnies serve the segment of the industry I'm interested in just fine."  Are you saying that you only care about the small segment of consumers that frequent EnWorld?</blockquote>

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