Re: Vote on the 2012 Star Army Awards!
I'd like to point out that, in my opinion, this voting process for the 2012 awards is by far inferior to the one you used in 2011.
You based this on open nominations, which were based on people being willing to think up of things worthy of being voted for. In the majority, this wasn't the case - for example, I didn't because I sort of stick my attention only to my own things, and kind of view it as pretentioous shove them forward as nominations. Especially when given a blank slate.
Similarily, people will generally only have access to the things they actually know to present and vote for. This heavily biases the nomination and voting process.
There also was a certain lack of publicizing involved for it as well. There's been little reason for the SARP membership overall to care, which in turn greatly diminishes the worth of any awards thus received.
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The end result, for me, is that the linked poll is largely nonsensical. I don't really know anything of the people/characters/situations brought up. I could vote blindly anyways - but that wouldn't be worth much. Hence, my decision to simply not vote at all.
My suggestion to salvage this? Restart the process following the way it was done in 2011. Notify the membership via e-mail, point them to the right location, and give them a month to fill it in. Remind them weekly. Oncethe month is done, start the voting process proper, collect the results, and then display accordingly.
You might not get the final results until late Febuary... but at least it would mean something to more people rather than this isolated anomaly you have going.
