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Fanfiction of the Year Discussion Committee 2010
[Cancelled] Fanfiction of the Year Discussion Committee 2010 (FFOTY 2010) Thread Rules Spoiler:
Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) Why is this a yearly award? Well, because, unless everyone in the world is a speed reader, not many people can actually read enough Fanfiction in a month to be able to vote fairly on their favourite fanfic. Plus, with all these categories, you’d be hard pressed to search for fiction that meet the criteria each month. Plus, this goves time for reviewers to actually do proper reviews if this may be relevant... Who are you, and why are you making this thread? I’m M12an, a regular member who just happens to be a Fanfiction Lounge regular, and this thread was made with the permission of Astinus, the current moderator of the Fanfiction and Writing Forums of the Pokecommunity. This thread was made to separate regular Lounge conversation with FFOTY discussions. Profit?? Yes, a meme. Anyway, the FFOTY is also a clever ploy to get people to read nominated fanfics that have been deemed awesome by the nominators. If you’re lucky or just plain skilled, you might end up getting your fanfic read and or displayed (as in stickied. That’s yet to be determined though). Nominators? Work in Progress Voters? Work in Progress Categories Open for Discussion Mechanics
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Categories Concluded discussions regarding Categories go here. As in what categories make it through to nomination. The Situation so far: Spoiler:
Aesthetics of the Contest Uhm, since it’s a yearly thing. I thought we might have a logo for it to be posted in the voting thread. Like the Olympics lol. Feel free to ignore this random suggestion. Emblem design is up to Moderator discretion unless stated otherwise. The Situation so far: Nothing Miscellanious Stuff Feel free to add topics to discuss. The Situation so far: Nothing As you can see, I’m opening the contest mechanics up to the general public, as in, you get to have a say in how the contests is run to avoid unfairness and such. This is a discussion thread after all. If no one wants to say anything, I’ll just set up the rules myself… Umm yeah, so post away… |
I'll just steal a topic from Serebii for lack of anything better to talk about: how do we determine which fics are eligible? Like, should only stories updated since January 1st be eligible or what?
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Basically any fic that hasn't won anything yet I suppose. Anything that hasn't been nominated for FFOTM by Astinus, hasn't won the SWC or contests of the such can be ommited from nomination. Anything since PC's creation.
Still, the main reason for this thread's existence is for you guys to help determine what you'd like to see. Come on, don't be shy, post away people. :D |
Wouldn't that result and a heck of a lot of needing to dig up old threads then? There's been an awful lot of fics over the years I'm sure - IMO it'd be better to make it a yearly thing, and hence include fics that have had an update (created, had a new chapter, etc) this year. My two cents. =P
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The problem here is that some notable fics haven't been updated this year. I'd like to name a few, but then I'd be labelled as bias. Also, notable one-shots that don't usually get updates just sink to the bottom of the pile.
With the nomination system, nominators could just nominate fics that they read and thought were good. Of course, nominators would have to be trustworthy(but that's another issue.) |
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I'd still say to make this a yearly thing, with all fics updated/created in the year 2010 to be eligible (so long as they haven't already won another contest on PC). One reason because that greatly reduces the amount of fics that could be read from all fics since 2003 down to just one year. Another reason is because how many people from 2003 (or even not that early) are still around to receive the rewards? Heck, from my join year of 2006, there aren't a lot of people around here that I used to see any more. So I feel that it's better to reward the people who are actually here during the year. I know it seems rather mean (?) since there are many good fics that were created/updated earlier than 2010 that do deserve some recognition, but well, they aren't the fanfic of the year if they weren't actually posted in any way this year. It's kind of like other yearly reward shows. The movies/music/books that were released in that year are eligible. I just feel that Fanfic of the Year should actually be from the year. idk. |
I agree with Astinus' point. Spreading the judging over such a large number of potential Fan Fictions might prove to be a little overwhelming and/or be an inefficient way of doing it. As she said above, not every author is still active and it might not be fair to the people still here if their Fan Fictions don't really have much of a shot because there is such a huge number of stories to look over (not being biased as I haven't posted anything this year xD).
But if it does end up judging all Fan Fictions, I think that it should only be done for the first year and then do the rest for the actual year it is set in. This is just my opinion, of course ^.~ |
Sorry, quick question. Does it have to be a specific length? Also, do non-pokemon Fanfics count?
I think we should get the 3 people who are active, and do the most posting on the F&W threads. Or perhaps somebody who's won an award. |
Oh, I’m so excited that this is going to be a reality.
Okay now for my two since: I fully agree that this should be for fics that were posted on in 2010. I suggest that Fictional authors must have been logged in at least once during the last four months of the year, even if the fic was not updated. Hopefully that way the winner will be an active member. Now for nominations: obliviously there are two ways to accept them: throughout the year, and for a cretin period of time. Taking them throughout the year allows the judges to go over the fics at a much less hectic pace. If they wait till the last two months of the year and there are 50 stories that need to be read by each member that is a lot of reading. Categories: (all suggestions of course)
I volunteer myself for any position that needs filled. |
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Also, I am guessing that awards would be handed out in January 2011? |
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Best Supporting Character Best Pokemon Character Best Non-Human Character (for non-Pokemon stories) As well as a few more specific categories... Most Heartwarming Scene Most Heartbreaking Scene Most Frightening Scene Most Suspenseful Scene Most Exciting Scene Funniest Scene Best Cliffhanger Best Plot Twist Those are just a few. |
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I really don't know what I'm talking about here. All I can say is that there's a reason to have a different award for female and male artists. There's no way to tell the difference between a female's writing and a male's writing. (One of the big reasons gender pronouns can be wrongly used on the Internet.) For example, J.K. Rowling simply used her first initial instead of her full name, and people couldn't tell if she was male or female when all they had to go on was her writing. Out of all the book awards that I know of (see: quickly Googled), I can't think of any that base recipients by their sex. I don't know. I just don't really like having males and females be judged on separate terms if they can be judged on equal terms. With writing, there's no difference that I can see, so I prefer having just one "Best Overall Author" award. Quote:
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Okay, so no female/male author awards, and isn't best author, basically FFotY ? :/
So: current categories:
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Oh, and when I think of anything to contribute to the actual topic, I'll post. ^^; - Kat |
I know you want to make this a yearly thing but I think for this first one, allowing entries from 2009 and maybe even 08 would be a good idea. Yes, allowing everything would sort of derail it, but expanding it to include some recent years that we did not have the awards would allow some recent fics that are still fresh in people's minds but can't/won't be updated to be included.
I surely have no personal reason for wanting this. As for categories, I think the ones Serebii is using for their current awards are pretty good however it could be cut down some for here. Hell, it needs cut down there too. Nominations I feel should be open to everyone, but perhaps with some initial judging criteria that they have to pass. Just something like a judge giving it a quick skim to see if it's actually quality. Alternatively or perhaps simultaneously, maybe require a certain number or percentage of nominations to qualify. And for judging, if you want to avoid the whole community popularity thing with just allowing votes like Serebii, a system like from the SWC where you have three or more judges who award each fic a certain number of points (possibly in different judging categories) that are tallied up would work. Perhaps have different groups of judges for different groups of categories, allowing specific judges to better focus on what they're, well, judging. |
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Also, please bold future suggestions. It makes it easier for me to add it to the first post and easier for anyone else to catch the actual suggestion when going through the records. Do not bold why you think it should be implemented because we can read that ourselves. This is just a suggestion though, but it would be greatly appreciated. |
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Now, should my above paragraph be bolded as it is just replying to your suggestion, or just when a totally new suggestion is brought up? |
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Right now, it seems to me like we have way too many categories. On the other hand, we have 10 months to get it right so no worries. XD |
Hmm, about our too many categories problem (I’m not sure if it’s actually a problem because we’re doing awards for the past three years, right?), maybe we can do something like arrange the categories in three sections so a story may only win an award per section. I dunno, it just makes the awards seem fewer when it’s arranged like that, I think. Though, this brings up a question: how many awards is a story allowed to win?
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I'm sorry, but I still don't understand who does the judging...
I still think somebody who had won awards before should do the judging. Of course if Mizan wants to, by all means. I also don't think anybody should nominate themselves (although I really want to!) because that just wouldn't be fair... I think it the actual judging should be judged by: How well the imagery is for topic. How well the originality is for topic. How interesting it is based off of topic. This sounds really fun though! I have some authors (not me by the way) who I'd like to nominate. |
Just want to remind everyone that proposed stuff has been updated in the first post and I'd appreciate it if you check it out to avoid redundancy and clutter. ^_^
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As for how many can they win, IDK, I say that should be open for all, but then again, I don't want one person sweeping up all of the awards. I vote that an Author can only win an award once: If they win Best Scene in '09 they can win any other award in '10 except Best Scene as long as the story was active both years. EDIT: Holy crap I took over 10 minutes to type a post o.0 |
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