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<blockquote data-quote="MavrickWeirdo" data-source="post: 3030520" data-attributes="member: 107">I see your point, however the significant word you keep using is &quot;perception&quot;. Perception is subjective. You cannot cannot expect the ENnies to &quot;sail a strait course&quot; based on subjective speculation. Where does it stop?Last january I participated in the &quot;ENWorld song contest&quot;. You sent a PDF as a prize to everyone who entered (I still owe you a review on that, there were some nice details there). Some people might &quot;perceive&quot; that as a conflict of intrest. Should we disqualfy everyone who has received a free copy of something for a prize or review purposes?Aside from that, if people believe that a publisher can &quot;buy&quot; a good reveiw from an ENWorld Staff reviewer, then keeping them off the judges panel won't save the awards. Russell can pass a bribe to judges just as easily as reviewers. (Not that I think he is doing either.) Personally most of the complaints I have heard about ENWorld reviews is that we are too hard on publishers. I think the current limits (no one who has published within the award period) is sufficient</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MavrickWeirdo, post: 3030520, member: 107"] I see your point, however the significant word you keep using is "perception". Perception is subjective. You cannot cannot expect the ENnies to "sail a strait course" based on subjective speculation. Where does it stop? Last january I participated in the "ENWorld song contest". You sent a PDF as a prize to everyone who entered (I still owe you a review on that, there were some nice details there). Some people might "perceive" that as a conflict of intrest. Should we disqualfy everyone who has received a free copy of something for a prize or review purposes? Aside from that, if people believe that a publisher can "buy" a good reveiw from an ENWorld Staff reviewer, then keeping them off the judges panel won't save the awards. Russell can pass a bribe to judges just as easily as reviewers. (Not that I think he is doing either.) Personally most of the complaints I have heard about ENWorld reviews is that we are too hard on publishers. I think the current limits (no one who has published within the award period) is sufficient [/QUOTE]

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