Talk about the awards 99 thing here dudes..
Much easier than commenting on my proposed solution where I posted it, eh?
Yes
okay.. i;ve got the perfect battle cry for Awards 99.. here it is:
The repost of my previous msesage:
I think that is also a sound way of running an awards thing for the scene.. All we need now is someone to do it :) Something of that nature will need a lot of time and effort on the part of the person or persons attempting to do it.
By Cthulu of Mistigris on Monday, January 18, 1999 - 10:29 pm:
Do I have to type it in again? 8)
By Dangermouse on Tuesday, January 19, 1999 - 01:31 pm:
By F7 on Tuesday, January 19, 1999 - 10:36 pm:
AWARDS 99 : DONT DO IT!
i mean.. after the disaster and general bullshit from the last steaming pile of dung you called awards 98.. no good can come of this =P
By Cthulu on Thursday, January 21, 1999 - 04:56 am:
By Cthulu of Mistigris on Sunday, January 17, 1999 - 03:52 pm:
My proposed solution for Awards '99:
Along with the lists of nominees, include artwork that artist / group has chosen to represent themselves. It all gets displayed by some multi-platform executable (AWARDVIEW.EXE in Java, anyone?) and displays ALL the art at a controlled rate before letting you get to the voting form.
Add some built-in pauses to make the minimum time it takes to go through the program an hour (there'll be a shitload of art to go through anyway, so that's not unrealistic) and at the end you get to vote.
This solves two problems: cheating and being lil-informed. Before you vote you have to be well-acquainted with what the artist has chosen to represent them (though in a way, this system encourages voting on individual works of art rather than a year's output) because you have to see every individual piece of art before voting.
It solves the cheating problem in that it's just too damned tedious to repeat the hour-long process multiple times to stuff the voting box, and even if someone does do it a few times the cheating will be on such a slow rate that it won't effect the ballots much. To prevent output file duping encrypt them, and after voting cripple the software so that people won't be able to use that particular program to vote again.
This makes absolutely everyone able to vote (providing they can run the software - so let's make this as backwards-compatible (386) as possible) as long as they've got an hour to kill. This solves judge / people's choice dilemmas as well.
Point out the problems with my solution below:
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By Dangermouse on Thursday, January 21, 1999 - 01:46 pm:
Any takers?