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Feb 21, 2003, 5:35pm

Dear Activeworlds CommunitY,

The Cy Awards is undergoing a total restructure including the web pages
and world, rules and procedures...etc...etc. at www.awcommunity.org/cyawards
..
Weebo, Cyberwitch, and AlphaBit Phalpha will take on the positions of
"Cy Directors".
As new rules and procedures are formulated they will be posted here and
at the Cy home pages.
If you have any questions, suggestions, or constructive criticism,
please email cyawards at awcommunity.org .
All past issues are being taken into consideration and hopefully most
can be implemented into the new structure and format.

Sincerely,

The Cy Awards:)

Feb 27, 2003, 4:17am

I accept your apology, BinaryBud.

I, for one, do not accept that there is not an amenable and probably easily
executable solution to the concerns regarding world content.

I understand Bud's point that the awards should be totally independent of
AWI for the sake of legal culpability. I agree. It's stupid for anyone to
be placed at harmful risk for the Cy awards.

What I'm about to suggest is a compromise. The compromise of greater
effort. Leave the risk and the adult content and things some may not want
to see right where they are. I don't believe the undesirable things need to
be seen at all.

Instead of having the public and judging committees go to the nominated
worlds, instead of risking exposure to undesirable content, instead of
excluding a huge, important part of AW from participation, how difficult
could it be to have the nominations, the very best, come to the judging
process? Like a Worlds Fair.

The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915... An entire city of
great palaces and pavillions, courtyards, agricultural extravaganzas,
sculpture, racetracks and amusements were constructed within the ten mile
square city of San Francisco. Mega tons of iron and lumber, raw earth, even
giant dismantled portions of some of the world's largest, greatest and most
beautiful constructions were brought in from all over the globe, by ship and
rail and beast. What's more, this incredible feat of human will and
devotion to excellence was done only eight years after San Francisco had
been razed to the ground by the worst earthquakes to ever hit the North
American continent.

No shift of responsibility. All of it was responsibility accepted. And
challenge and effort. The world came to San Francisco to enjoy the very
best the world had to offer. The world came to witness POSSIBILITY.

Possibility made possible courtesy of existing technology.

So, this is my offering. Learn how to use bots, find someone who knows how,
scale down your entries and bring the best all together in one place. One
great event in an area of total acceptibility.

Make it possible courtesy of our existing technology.







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Feb 27, 2003, 12:18pm

WOW This looks pretty good Sidris...... We need to start brainstorming now!
These are all great ideas that CAN be implemented.

Leo :)


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Feb 27, 2003, 3:13pm

That certainly is interesting. :) Of course each entry will be of a
different size, so you're going to need new Cy staff to help move everything
and put it in its proper place. Since that's a given, I'd also suggest
putting each copied entry underneath a CyAwards citizen account to make
moving entries around that much easier, with signs being put up at the
entry's starting point detailing who did the entry and where the original
can be found.

Of course, we had lots of problems just getting someone to update the voting
yard with the correct entries for SW City last year, and that was never
resolved. So this would take a lot of organization beforehand by some
dependable people.

Chris

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Feb 27, 2003, 8:20pm

Interesting idea, only problems I can foresee are ones involving voting categories such as "best use of such and such in a world"
or something specific TO a world....
Kinda hard to judge it, if you don't go IN it, after all...
JB


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Feb 27, 2003, 8:34pm

Categories can be renamed.
Actually we are working on redoing categories also and will ask for ideas in
a lil bit.


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Feb 27, 2003, 11:29pm

Understood, but still the problem arises where you'd NEED to physically enter a world, to judge it. depending on the applicable
category, of course. which causes a bit of difficulty with the suggestion of having things "submitted", copied elsewhere, or what
have you.......

I mean, AV's and objects themselves are one thing..... but it's just not practical, I don't think, to reproduce whole builds or
whatever, to enter them.
And how do you determine exactly WHAT gets "sent" ?? especially for a world based category..... when the whole world atmosphere may
greatly contribute to the overall effect and ambiance of the particular build.......

anyways, certainly no EASY solutions to anything here......
just thinking out loud......
JB



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Feb 28, 2003, 1:56am

Judging from the 200 e-mails poor Bits had to send out for bad sets of
coords, this will be a big undertaking indeed.

Chris

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Feb 28, 2003, 3:39am

Agreed...... gotta hire her a Spammer ;O) they're good at that kinda stuff
JB


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Feb 28, 2003, 11:49am

hmmm Back to what Sidris suggested,..... We could use technology to do most of this...:) the emailing, the moving and submissions of objects/avatars,.... and even some builds. But, I sure can see the problem with the "world" entries...but then again if we use technology for the other stuff...handling the world entries might be a little easier...:)

my2cents
Leo :)




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Mar 1, 2003, 3:55am

If you use technology, you still have to input the coordinates of the builds
to copy them, then input new coords where the copy is going to be built. So
it still takes work. :)

SW Chris

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Mar 1, 2003, 11:56am

I'm curious as to how you propose to satisfy any apprehensions a modeler, av maker, or whomever, might have about their creations,
( be it models, textures, what have you ) being on "some other OP" ??
Hafta admit, I'd be wondering who had access to my hard work and might be reluctant to even allow it at all....

Would that exclude someone who truly didn't feel comfortable with having their work, on someone else's OP.... in someone else's
world..... with god only knows how many people who have OP access ??? Do they now NOT get to "compete" ?

These are just thoughts that run through my mind as I sat here reading everyone's posts..... not necessarily how I might feel
personally

Somehow though, I'd be willing to hazard a bet that quantum physics equations are easier to solve than this conundrum
I could be wrong... :O)
JB


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