Nominations are up!!

[ColonelHardisson]

I do remember the year WotC products were ineligible for a lot of the awards, simply because the awards were all D20/OGL and they didn't "qualify". I don't think they've submitted since then, but not sure that it matters, given WotC's personaly turnovers since then.

My guess is that this is the reason they haven't submitted anything since. I think some of the same people are there from that time period.

 

[Pramas]

Entering the ENnies is rather a lose/lose proposition for WotC. If they enter and win, people think, "Of course they won a popularity contest on a D&D fansite." If they enter and lose, people think, "OMG, I can't believe a company with WotC's staff and resources got beaten by a three person company!"

 

[Mark CMG]

Entering the ENnies is rather a lose/lose proposition for WotC. If they enter and win, people think, "Of course they won a popularity contest on a D&D fansite." If they enter and lose, people think, "OMG, I can't believe a company with WotC's staff and resources got beaten by a three person company!"

Yup. Until they have competition from at least one company that holds a like share of the market and has a similar level of resources, I do not think that will change.

 

[Dextra]

I think the best answer is the tiered award (gold, silver, bronze), if WotC got the Gold and someone else got the silver, they could still be content to know it. If WotC got the silver, then they could shout from the rooftops that they beat out Product X from WotC.

The ENnies do a gold and silver award.
WotC chose not to enter last year because of what they call the 800lb gorilla phenomenon. They gave no reason this year.

There were publishers who didn't enter this year when in years past they had. Why? I look forward to finding out.

There were publishers, big name and small, for the first time ever. I look forward to finding out what they thought of the experience.

Personally, I would like to draw a judge each from RPGNet and The Forge in addition to three judges from EN World. And allow voting to be from non EN Worlders. And a secret ballot. But that can wait until next year.

 

[Mark CMG]

You're one of the more colorful fishes in the small pond.

My point is, the judges aren't grabbed from anywhere else, just ENworld's community.

I think that technically someone could sign up on EN World with the sole intent of running for one of the seats on the ENnies nominations committee and garner support from outside of the community to do the same just to vote them into that seat but it would probably be a tough sell. I do not doubt that one of these years another sizeable site will set up a slate of candidates and vote at least some of them in. Perhaps some that already spend a good (or equal) amount of time here anyway but never considered running for a seat. Personally, I'd like to see a policy in place that at least two of the seats must be occupied by people who have never done so before. I don't have a problem with anyone who has held a seat before doing so again, but I think a mechanism to ensure new blood each year would be a positive step.

 

[Dextra]

I don't want to interfere with what is the Will of The People (ie. how people vote), but still plan on implementing a ruling by which at least one experienced and one new judge is in place each year. That way there's guaranteed fresh blood AND experience.

I think that technically someone could sign up on EN World with the sole intent of running for one of the seats on the ENnies nominations committee and garner support from outside of the community to do the same just to vote them into that seat but it would probably be a tough sell. I do not doubt that one of these years another sizeable site will set up a slate of candidates and vote at least some of them in. Perhaps some that already spend a good (or equal) amount of time here anyway but never considered running for a seat. Personally, I'd like to see a policy in place that at least two of the seats must be occupied by people who have never done so before. I don't have a problem with anyone who has held a seat before doing so again, but I think a mechanism to ensure new blood each year would be a positive step.

 

[Mark]

I don't want to interfere with what is the Will of The People (ie. how people vote), but still plan on implementing a ruling by which at least one experienced and one new judge is in place each year. That way there's guaranteed fresh blood AND experience.

I think that by ensuring new blood on the committee you will find you garner more new blood candidates throwing their hat in the ring. Besides, it doesn't intefere with the will of the people. It's just as likely that most people vote for new blood but that because there is no consensus on which new blood, we see more of a faux mandate for old blood, so to speak. It's actually possible for everyone to vote for at least one new blood candidate and never see any new blood on the committee.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I think that by ensuring new blood on the committee you will find you garner more new blood candidates throwing their hat in the ring. Besides, it doesn't intefere with the will of the people. It's just as likely that most people vote for new blood but that because there is no consensus on which new blood, we see more of a faux mandate for old blood, so to speak. It's actually possible for everyone to vote for at least one new blood candidate and never see any new blood on the committee.

We can have five tiers, one judge from each. Judge it all by Post Count!
one judge from 1-100 posts, one judge from 101-500 posts...

 

[Psion]

I don't want to interfere with what is the Will of The People (ie. how people vote), but still plan on implementing a ruling by which at least one experienced and one new judge is in place each year. That way there's guaranteed fresh blood AND experience.

Oh, there's some blood guaranteed, alright.

(Pictures all the prior judges competing for 4 spots...)

 

[JoeGKushner]

But at the same time, some of us are old RPG.net hands too. I've got reviews over there years back for example. I know Psion's over there too, as is Corithian and others.

Heck, Necromancer and Malhavoc boards too.