05-17-2023, 11:57 AMspidey Wrote: The first thing has been discussed at length in the awards committee and should have a resolution shortly.  We completely agree with your statement and was a major reason we are looking to change it.

I agree with the second as well.  Clarity on the award itself.

As for the third, I disagree.  It would be terrible to show all the write ups.  What if a GM didn't present any of his players under a great light.  What if a GM is terrible at writing finding the right words and only submits a couple of sentences while another GM pens a novel.  The first GM and his players will be upset by this.  There is too much human error placed on one person to allow all GM write ups to be shown.  I would be fine with the top 3 but not all.

What if GMs could opt in or out of their nominee being shown publicly? Maybe some people who don't want to/aren't able to put as much effort into it could opt out, and people who spent an hour writing something nice that just gets chucked into the void could opt in and somebody could feel nice about themselves even if they didn't win.

I'm a big fan of people hearing nice things about themselves. I have been caught up in a lot of nonsense lately where I found out that somebody said something mean about me behind my back, and it's a bummer, but I have to say, finding out that somebody said something nice about you that you weren't expecting is for me personally about ten times as much of a positive impact than the "oof" of any amount of negative behind-the-back trash talk.