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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 3029060" data-attributes="member: 172">I do not see where this hypothetical conflict of interest you are suggesting arises. How does being a staff reviewer influence my opinion on products judge in the ennies? I am not seeing it.I mean seriously. This is a topic that comes up all the time in my line of work, and we receive training on it regularly. We are taught to avoid things like having a government employee preside on a panel that will be judging on whether to buy a product produced by a company your wife works for. That's appearance of conflict of interest.But you have presented no credible scenario here over which we should be concerned that I see.You poo-poo me above, but I am not seeing how what you were saying there is any different than what you were saying earlier:So, by virtue of having made judgements on the quality of products, we are ineligible to make judgements on the quality of products? Because a publisher does not like the judgements we make, we should be barred from the committee? That's not preventing a conflict of interest, that's inviting one by allowing publishers to dictate who we put on the committe by objecting to them.If a publisher or publishing segment is not represented, and the fans feel it is not represented, there is a mechanism for dealing with that: vote for someone who represents your standpoint. That is, arguably, why Diaglo took a seat this year. That is the principle on which a public nomination is founded.</blockquote>

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