some things of note

[garrus]

I've been thinking about some things, may or may not go through with all of them.

The definitely

- If Pokemon makes it as a category at ljvgia, it WILL NOT make it as a category here. Having two of the same category going at the same time is really pointless, the same people will win both. Since Pokemon is primarily a game, I'm letting the VG Awards

Comments

[powercorrupts]

Honestly, I'd suggest dropping Digimon from the serieses. I hope this isn't too forward or too rude, but I can't help but think that if it is in the top 15, that it's taking a spot that a more icon-centric fandom could have instead.

It was nommed pretty heavily, but go look at the icon selection on the digimon icon comms like digimon_icons - iconposts are infrequent, and I hope this doesn't sound too elitist or rude, but there isn't a great quality of icons in the fandom, probably because of the lack of iconists. There is only the tiniest handful of good iconists in the fandom, and they don't make a huge volume of icons compared to other fandoms that are below the top 15.

[pineappledesu]

While that is true, I'm not sure how fair it would be to drop Digimon and allow other series to be put in its place. The very best I can do would be to allow the series just below the 15-mark in and keep Digimon.

[powercorrupts]

Yeah. I mean, I can really understand that, because when you disqualify one fandom based on not having a very active icon community, where does one draw the line? But I think my biggest concern is just that I see some fandoms lower on the list that have a bigger icon-making population (and a much larger number of serious iconmakers) than Digimon, and it just really doesn't seem very fair.

The post says, after all, not to nominate a series just for the hell of it, but the unfortunate fact is that because this was pimped on three Digimon comms, it got a lot of nominations from people who were just trying to show their support for the fandom, irregardless of whether or not it actually has an active icon community. I don't know that it's really fair to other fandoms, as a result.

[pineappledesu]

For us to try and judge which series are active and which are not would be a tad presumptuous and the point of holding these nominations will have been ... well, negated. So a group of moderators got together and discussed your points, and we've decided to do the following:

We're going to do a poll with the next 15 series underneath the current top 15. People will then vote on which of those series they want. Then the top 5 of that poll will make it in. This way the series that, as you said, have more iconmakers but less of a unified fandom have a chance of making it in.

This may not be the best solution, but I think it's the best course of action given the time constraints. Is this acceptable?