Board Thread:Fanon Wiki Proposals/@comment-27391152-20180920061357

So, following the mess that was the previous SFWA, I think it's time we discuss what we can do to improve it for next time. Below I have some suggestions as to what we could do to fix some of the issues that came up, although I'm willing to hear other suggestions if you guys have any ideas. Feel free to leave your thoughts/opinions/suggestions below!

Voting for only one person: Multiple people were caught voting for only one person/person's fanons in the final round, which is obviously unfair. I believe the reason behind people doing this is either because they are wanting to rig it for their friends, or, they have only seen one or two eligible fanons and are just voting for what they know. So, my suggestion to combat this is to create a rule that states you can only vote for the winner of an award if you have read at least 2 of the necessary fanons of those nominated. For instance, if the nominees for "Most Queen-like" were Bri Anderson, Isla Barrett & Tori Axelson, I would need to have read two of Seychelles, Bermuda and Mozambique in order to vote for the winner. Obviously, this will be hard to regulate but I think people here will be honest enough about this. If you suspect someone is breaking this rule, feel free to ask an admin and we can deal with it.

New Fanons Getting Overshadows: Many people have voiced their concerns about the same authors dominating the awards year after year. While I don't see this as -that- big of an issue since I think it would be equally unfair to restrict the number of awards someone can win, I do have a few ways to help solve this issue:
 * On the main page, I was thinking that we could add a section that contains all the current ongoing seasons. Not only would this help show new members where to start reading, but it would make it a lot easier for everyone to find new fanons to start reading. I think it would really give the new authors a bit more publicity, which would hopefully solve this issue at least somewhat. In terms of how we could format it, I was just thinking of adding a section with all the logos, and then linking the season pages to those logos.
 * Similar to the Outstanding New Author Award, we could add similar categories in the other areas. Nothing too extreme or anything, but I think an "Outstanding Inaugural/Debut Fanon Season" and "Outstanding Character from Inaugural/Debut Season" would be welcome additions to the list of categories.

Tiebreakers vs. No Tiebreakers This isn't necessarily a problem depending on who you ask, but I personally think that we should introduce some way of breaking ties rather than simply giving both tied nominees the award. My logic is that we go through such a lengthy process in order to find THE best. It is not possible for two fanons/characters/authors to be equally considered the best and a tie simply means that we don't have enough data to gauge which one edges out the other. Where's the harm in adding one more short round in order to find the winner? If you're interested, you can see the original discussion here (scroll down to the bottom).

If we ultimately decide to introduce some sort of tiebreaker, the next question would be how do we go about it? I think the two options we have at the moment are to either A) have a 24/48 hour tiebreaker round where you can only vote for one of the tied nominees, or B) make people rank the nominees instead of simply vote for their #1, so that if it DOES tie, we can look at which nominee received the most #2s and so on.

So, the one thing I want EVERYONE who reads this to do is to vote for either TIEBREAKERS or NO TIEBREAKERS below. Then, regardless of how you voted for that, also vote for how you want the tiebreakers to be dealt with in the event that the majority of users vote in favour of tiebreakers. You can vote for An extra round, A ranking system, or Your own suggestion.

Thanks for reading, and once again, be sure to share your thoughts below! 