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Jul 24, 2005, 2:03pm

I'm personally going to suggest a structure like so:

1) Nominate judges.
2) Elect judges by popular vote.
3) Judge review and voting on all award nominees.
4) Popular review and voting on all award nominees (before the results of #3
are available).
5) Give out 3 grand prizes, which could technically all go to the same
entry: Community's Choice (winner of the popular vote), Judges Choice
(winner of the judges' vote), and of course the actual ... whatever, the
first prize, whatever it's officially known as (overall winner by total
points).

Of course, judge votes are worth more points than popular votes (the
relative scaling would need some thought), and only the real winner by
points gets the actual CY award (and prize? Assuming there are prizes),
however the other two get "official" recognition (unless one entry gets both
or all three spots, which is highly possible), which is probably what most
people want out of the CY's anyway: a chance to have their work seen by the
community.

If it seemed appropriate, you could go back and do a revote with the top 5
entries from the first voting cycle, though I don't honestly know if people
would rather have the voting process be less or more involved (national
statistics say 1/3 of the people who register to vote don't actually bother
to show up for presidential elections -- why did you register? O_O).

Judges would have to be the types of people who would have no reason to be
biased, so it can't be anyone from a specific AW community, and it should
probably not be anyone who's particularly active in AW development these
days; It would be best if we could get a lot of semi-retired AW cits who
know the territory but no longer have a direct interest in what's going on.
I don't know how many people are left with citnums in the <= 5-digit range,
but that's probably about who you'd be looking for (Builderz comes to mind
immediately, citnums aside, as well as quite a few people who are likely no
longer here).

Thoughts?

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Jul 26, 2005, 3:11pm

Allow me to step in and make my traditional crowd-displeasing remarks.
Surely, you didn't think you could post these things without getting my
attention, did you?

You haven't the slightest clue what's going on outside; there's a fire
burning, and I don't suggest you step out the door if you don't want to burn
with it.

Come back when you have serious information on the state of the world. Come
back when you are prepared to discuss the core issues of our current
timeline, not the symptoms of perpetual disease.

The average person is far better off knowing next to nothing about the
course of history, so I sincerely suggest you step down.

[View Quote] Indeed, let us "play nice." You don't understand what you're doing; society
is on edge like never before, set into motion by the amazing communication
power of the internet. We don't need anymore people throwing matches into
the streets, regardless of whether they're "compassion flares" or pipebombs.

If you want to talk about the issues of society, then stand up and give us a
hand, because at this point, we could use all the help we can get. We need
scientists, mathematicians, historians, engineers, and linguists, but not
pyromaniacs.

-HT

Jul 29, 2005, 4:13am

"Ahm a brain sai-yen-tist!" -Me

Run, run while you still can, for this is no lie.

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Aug 21, 2005, 3:24pm

Hipacital? Grap? Haressing?

I'm amazed at all these new internet words that are showing up now. I'm
really not familiar with grap, but I imagine it's related to the linux
"grep" function.

Let's all just take a moment to pronounce "hipacital." Fun, yes? How about,
"the hipacital man haressed the woman by graping her in public."

This is how I'm going to insult people in family-oriented environments from
now on. "You sitopit shiltokhead! What a hipacital son of a borchamb. You
make me want to pookilate up my breakfast."

Seriously, don't make me grap you up with a wrook.

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Aug 23, 2005, 5:36am

Abusing monkeys is no laughing matter.

I'm saying something else so it's not a one-liner. Blah blah blah I like
food.

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