2011 Rose & Bay Awards Followup Report & Discussion

[ysabetwordsmith]

The 2011 Rose and Bay Awards for excellence in cyberfunded creativity have now concluded.  Winners have been announced for Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomic,  Other Project, and Patron.  We are currently working on the certificates for winners.  You can read more about this project on the 2011 Rose & Bay Awards landing page.

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Comments

The "Don't Vote For Yourself" rule

[wyld_dandelyon]

You know, in elections and in many other votes, you are not prohibited from voting for yourself.

Does this rule have widespread support? Does it actually accomplish something useful?

It certainly has been a repeated issue with people who are not already a part of the crowdfunding LJ community, and who miss that rule (and presumably also then miss the chance to vote for someone else because they didn't know that their vote for themselves would not be counted).

This rule also isn't as straightforward as you'd think because not all projects are the creation of a single creator.

I'm most familiar with Torn World, of course, where there are a few creators who are intensely active and a much larger number of people who are mostly readers, adding a story or piece of art only rarely. Torn World is set up to encourage reader involvement in the creative end of things. Should a reader who is inspired to submit a single piece of creative work be restricted from voting for Torn World? What about two or three? Or what about a theoretical someone who had a lot of stories published in 2010 on the site, and which remain published on the site, but who has none published in 2011--should that person be allowed to vote for that project in 2011?

Even if we came up with some detailed, arcane rule to cover all such circumstances, I suspect that trying to enforce it would be an unwelcome burden on the person administering the category in question due to the amount of investigation into the projects in question that would be required.

Re: The "Don't Vote For Yourself" rule

[ellenmillion]

Heh. Yes, I had the same thought - most of the people who might have voted for Torn World were ineligible, even if they weren't part of the core active group.

Not nominating yourself, I can understand. Not voting for yourself... I wouldn't mind seeing that rule dropped. Particularly if we go with open voting where you can vote for more than one project.

Re: The "Don't Vote For Yourself" rule

[wyld_dandelyon]

Good point about allowing voting for more than one project, which I definitely support.

Re: The "Don't Vote For Yourself" rule

[eseme]

Speaking as someone who had to scan through over 200 votes for the names of the creators to double-check and enforce this rule, I think it should go.

It was a real hassle.

Re: The "Don't Vote For Yourself" rule

[rowyn]

I did not understand the logic behind this rule either.