The 2011 Music Banter User Awards: VOTING(!)

Paedantic Basterd · 01-18-2012, 02:58 PM

Well, it fell to me this year, and this is how I chose to do it. Not everyone knows enough of the members to come up with nominations. Not everyone wants to make their thoughts public. Additionally, the pool of nominations is ****ing massive. In some categories, like Most Missed, I swear I had more than 30 people nominated. If you think it makes sense to have a 10-user-tie amongst 30 nominations for the final win, then you can do it that way next year, but I think it's necessary to screen the nominations down.

The nominations are so we can A) Get a pool of people to choose from for categories and B) express our gratitude towards users for their contributions. These are narrowed down by frequency of nomination, then there are votes so people can reconsider, vote anonymously, or have a bit of a say if they weren't comfortable nominating.

If you like, someone else can do it next year however they please, or we can scrap the awards altogether because they're more or less an annual Spill Your Guts.

01-18-2012, 02:58 PM	#24 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	Well, it fell to me this year, and this is how I chose to do it. Not everyone knows enough of the members to come up with nominations. Not everyone wants to make their thoughts public. Additionally, the pool of nominations is ****ing massive. In some categories, like Most Missed, I swear I had more than 30 people nominated. If you think it makes sense to have a 10-user-tie amongst 30 nominations for the final win, then you can do it that way next year, but I think it's necessary to screen the nominations down. The nominations are so we can A) Get a pool of people to choose from for categories and B) express our gratitude towards users for their contributions. These are narrowed down by frequency of nomination, then there are votes so people can reconsider, vote anonymously, or have a bit of a say if they weren't comfortable nominating. If you like, someone else can do it next year however they please, or we can scrap the awards altogether because they're more or less an annual Spill Your Guts.