Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27391152-20180904100425/@comment-9949103-20180914142522

Not to interject my opinion since I've barely been on here, but I wholeheartedly agree with Tozza.

While these awards are used to keep people continuing in their work and recognizing a lot of great work, it's still something that you have to earn and win. It does suck that some of the "bigger/older" writers and fanons get a lot more play than smaller newer ones, but the whole point is for other people in the community to decide on what they think the best stuff is. It is meant to be competitive and I think trying to hand out more awards kind of defeats the purpose.

The system definitely could use some more clarity or an update, for sure. However, I'd want to know potential ways that we could make the awards "more fair" for smaller fanons. Like, I think limiting the number of nominations a person can get is a good idea in theory, but in practice, I could see people just refusing to vote for categories if they don't know any of the nominations (That is certainly what I've done in the past). To me, trying to alter things based on "fairness" will almost always result in the stifling of acknowledging other great work, whether that be from "bigger" or "smaller" fanons.

I don't know, it's a topic worth discussing for sure. But I'm just putting it out there that I'm not really a fan of altering the awards just to try and make things more fair for "smaller" fanons.