Awards
I wanted to let people know that forsaken_fandom has opened up nominations for Round 2 of the Forsaken Fandom Awards. Profiler is on the list of fandoms being included in this round of awards and I'd like to encourage you all to come and participate.
Round 1 was a bit bumpy, it was our first Awards, so we've made some alterations to the rules and our format which we hope will remedy some of the problems we had the first time around. We want to be up front about what didn't work and the changes we've implemented to hopefully improve the awards and make them better. Our biggest problems the first time were an inordinate number of ties in several fandoms, people not knowing they could self-nominate and one or two ships dominating the categories.
To solve these issues we've revised the format the judges will be using, as well as the voting which should reduce and hopefully eliminate any ties. We're screening the nominations for privacy in the hopes of making people more comfortable about nominating themselves and anyone else - there's nothing wrong with wanting attention for your work and a lot of people don't nominate a person or work because they assume someone else will. And lastly, three of the fandoms included last time were largely dominated by a particular ship. It would be unfair to exclude those ships but at the same time we feel some balance is needed to make things fair to the rest of the fandom. For this reason any ship which had 40% or more of the nominations will be given it's own category. This is not intended to favor any ship or give it special treatment, rather it's a measure to level the playing field to make the awards fun and fair to as many people are possible.
We have decided based on the quanity of nominations from Round 1 that Skew - Jack/Sam will be in it's own category. Other Jack pairings will tenatively be with the rest of Profiler but may be moved if any of them seem to dominate the awards. It's great that Skew is so active, we just want to make sure everyone is included as much as possible.
Nominations will be open from now through 8/15
Round 1 was a bit bumpy, it was our first Awards, so we've made some alterations to the rules and our format which we hope will remedy some of the problems we had the first time around. We want to be up front about what didn't work and the changes we've implemented to hopefully improve the awards and make them better. Our biggest problems the first time were an inordinate number of ties in several fandoms, people not knowing they could self-nominate and one or two ships dominating the categories.
To solve these issues we've revised the format the judges will be using, as well as the voting which should reduce and hopefully eliminate any ties. We're screening the nominations for privacy in the hopes of making people more comfortable about nominating themselves and anyone else - there's nothing wrong with wanting attention for your work and a lot of people don't nominate a person or work because they assume someone else will. And lastly, three of the fandoms included last time were largely dominated by a particular ship. It would be unfair to exclude those ships but at the same time we feel some balance is needed to make things fair to the rest of the fandom. For this reason any ship which had 40% or more of the nominations will be given it's own category. This is not intended to favor any ship or give it special treatment, rather it's a measure to level the playing field to make the awards fun and fair to as many people are possible.
We have decided based on the quanity of nominations from Round 1 that Skew - Jack/Sam will be in it's own category. Other Jack pairings will tenatively be with the rest of Profiler but may be moved if any of them seem to dominate the awards. It's great that Skew is so active, we just want to make sure everyone is included as much as possible.
Nominations will be open from now through 8/15