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Message: <blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4483325" data-attributes="member: 70778">Qualidar: Yes.True judge connections are a bit of a problem in a sense, but it also can help show the quality of an online product. If it is so large to not accommodate the worst of connections them it may mean an online offering needs some work for whatever reason. Take ENWorld for example. Didn't we recently have a lite version being run to compensate for hardware failure?While it wasn't the intended design of the site, it was something to make sure people had access to the site so while a judge for physical products has everything in hand and needs nothing else, I was just thinking those added disadvantages that online media has that would or maybe should be a part of the review process. While a CD of the material can show the final product, unlike getting a book at a local store, the online media has a different dilevery method that must meet other standards than a physical product so that it can get to people who are interested in it.It would be a sad case for someone with a podcast and only 2 gigs bandwidth per month to have people flock to it and the judge not be able to see it, but would show something about the podcast. It is a sad thing to say, but that podcast may need some work for it to be accessible to people other than a judge who could get it on a CD.The awards should be based in part on performance correct?A book or such that would be presented in newspaper cut-out leters will probably not go over well as a whole product because of how hard it is to read, and likewise a podcast that does not have enough bandwidth to support it probably isn't taking the proper steps to deliver the digital fan product....I also understand that judges need something to look at in the form of a physical product, but didn't figure they got to keep them, and maybe all those products were auctioned off to support the awards or something else. Like a baking contest the judge has to sample the cake/pie, but doesn't get one to themselves, but there is one for each judge to sample, or Golden Demon each judge does not get a mini or diorama, but must share viewing of the entry.I just think the delivery method of digital media is an important part of the quality of it.Looking at Dungeons and Dragons Insider you can se a lot about the quality of the service that people are talking about comes in the form of how it is delivered to them including the latest feedback requesting article.Judges have to have something to judge after all.For the fee to enter one type of entry and others not have an out of pocket fee seems kind of funny, but again it is the different forms of media. Assume someone were to ask a podcaster to mail in their web server that houses the podcasts to compare to a book from say Green Ronin.You really can't equate physical media to digital media in every way because of the differences in how they are presented to the world.Podcasts aren't that much or PDFs to send in a copy on CD if needed, but what of streaming media that does not allow for download because they don't want their "cast" replicated?So I am just saying that another option exists for digital media that does not for physical product.Of course and digital book in eBook/PDF format could be printed and mailed in, and likewise any physical book could be digitized and placed on a CD so there is overlap for some, but not all in comparison.Also digital media outside of the local area (country/state/etc) would be easier to get in than physical products.Say someone in a country couldn't mail to the judges for the Ennies? Or what they mail takes so long through customs or has duties owed on the customs? Does the Ennies turn those entrants away because they don't want to pay the charges to get the mail?  Where a submitted link costs nothing between countries to get it to anyone.</blockquote>

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