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starless night awards again
Sep. 16th, 2003 09:57 amYesterday I posted about the Starless Night Awards and urged all to vote. Today, I have been convinced by comments on that thread not to vote.
Here is why I won't vote:
- In order to be fair, professional and unbiased, one would have to read *all* of the fics nominated in order to vote. I am not going to read all of the fics on the list. If I just voted for my favourites, I am not behaving fairly or professionally. I'm just patronising friends and people I happen to know.
- The awards organisers changed the rules half-way through from jury system (where the jury reads *all* of the fics) to vote system (where anyone at all can put in a vote with no rules or regulations). This is not good. This is unprofessional, chaotic and unfair. I cannot support this.
- The whole nominations process was already so confused, that only a tiny proportion of authors got nominated, fics got nominated several times in different categories and other discrepancies appeared, that in all fairness the end result would simply endorse something that was faulty from the beginning.
So, even though I couldn't help being chuffed at being nominated, I will now put vanity aside and not vote.
This also leaves time available for writing Desert Prince and reading Catalyst. *g*
P.S. You may be wondering: how can Lobelia be typing in such a long post? The reply: I have cycled into work! But work-online-time is of necessity limited and also fraught with fear: who is going to walk into the office at any minute now (everyone's got a key, it seems) and catch a glimpse of Ewan's penis or similar?
Here is why I won't vote:
- In order to be fair, professional and unbiased, one would have to read *all* of the fics nominated in order to vote. I am not going to read all of the fics on the list. If I just voted for my favourites, I am not behaving fairly or professionally. I'm just patronising friends and people I happen to know.
- The awards organisers changed the rules half-way through from jury system (where the jury reads *all* of the fics) to vote system (where anyone at all can put in a vote with no rules or regulations). This is not good. This is unprofessional, chaotic and unfair. I cannot support this.
- The whole nominations process was already so confused, that only a tiny proportion of authors got nominated, fics got nominated several times in different categories and other discrepancies appeared, that in all fairness the end result would simply endorse something that was faulty from the beginning.
So, even though I couldn't help being chuffed at being nominated, I will now put vanity aside and not vote.
This also leaves time available for writing Desert Prince and reading Catalyst. *g*
P.S. You may be wondering: how can Lobelia be typing in such a long post? The reply: I have cycled into work! But work-online-time is of necessity limited and also fraught with fear: who is going to walk into the office at any minute now (everyone's got a key, it seems) and catch a glimpse of Ewan's penis or similar?
