Also, I'm wondering what everyone thinks of
self nomination?I think not, simply as what point is there to an awards' nomination stage if anyone can just nominate their own work? =/ Plus it just seems... kinda wrong to me to allow people to do that as well. Especially if we end up with only specific people being allowed to nominate - they could just throw up their own work. I'd say not - keep it to other people having to nominate other people's fics (like how sppf does it).
While I'm keen on a silent ballot to avoid any hard feelings, can this actually be implemented in a VB forum?
I think it can, but not that well. As said, it would either have to be in individual threads which would be...too much IMO to deal with (even if a sub-section is made which means work for admins as well, that's still 25 threads that need posting in, and I can't say it'd be an enjoyable process to go into each thread like that...and whoever counts the votes would also have to go through each thread rather than have it already supplied), or all in the one thread, in which you'd have to track all of the posts (and edits people may pull) and would mean that it isn't silent, which I feel is a pretty significant factor to consider. (I don't believe it'd be possible to create a poll in a thread here for all of the nominations either - options won't work that way).
(Plus keeping it separate and having a thread for people to confirmed they voted while having a username also submitted as a 'check' would be easier to protect against multiple votes by the same person via alts I suppose.)
Yeah, but it significantly reduces the clutter if it were to go through a screening process. Besides, once the nominations close, the voters get to read through the fics that sound interesting and have been nominated. If we just let everything pass, voters might miss out on certain fics due to the absurd amount of badfics outweighing the good ones. This is, as usual, the Worst-Case-Scenario.
I suppose I'm thinking then it rather unlikely it reaches a worst-case scenario, as I don't see people seriously suggesting badfics all that often (heck, why would they in the first place?). (And if the sheer number of fics being nominated is a problem, then why the three-years of fics being allowed idea not also coming under this point as well actually - could also cause overcrowding ;P). Also going from seeing three fanfic awards on sppf where I haven't seen such a problem even get somewhat vaguely close to occurring with badfics being overwhelmingly nominated. And again - who would qualify as a 'judge' and who chooses these people? =/
You forgot to factor in Procrastination.
We're doooooooooomed! (But hey sppf does it in two months easy, so I believe we can do it all in a year =P.)
