i think so too ... like right now ... we can be discussing the rules for next round maybe because this round has already started

_________________

Agreed! Let's finish up this round and then consider changing future ones. Btw, I agree with most of the ideas mentioned here.

_________________
<center> all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us


Thank you for five-plus wonderful years of obsession, friendship and fun

Oh, of course we're not going to change the rules right in the middle of this round. It would make everything all complicated and people might get angry.

We'll definitely wait till next round, but that's also the mods call and Arwen's on if we're going to change it or not.

yeah .. i think its an excellently good idea (the rules) but not in middle of the current awards

_________________

I agree to about only being entered for one award. If someone is nominated for more than one I think it should be their choice which award they get entered for.
However the idea that you can't win the same award twice in a row, or only twice, like the american presidency, I feel is not what should happen. In my humble opinion I think that if someone won a particular award one year, they should be allowed the chance to retain it, as long as they get nominated for it by other members. Like with any competition, (here is the sportsman in me showing^^) the holders should always get the chance to 'defend' their title.

^yeah you have a point there..

i'll have to agree with Darrell on that one!

_________________

I think this would be the case if the awards were about seriously trying to find the best member for each catergory. But they're not meant to be like that and can't really be - very often the best person for an award is less well known and so get ignored. They're meant to about rewarding members who've done well and about having fun. I'd rather see several members being rewarded for say welcoming or being LotR obbsessed rather than one person who always gets it because they're just the obvious choice to vote for.

_________________

^agreed.

_________________
<center> all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us


Thank you for five-plus wonderful years of obsession, friendship and fun

^^Yes, yes, I second that Elanor!

Sure, I have no problem with that, and that is the ethos of this forum. I don't vote for someone 'just becasue they're the obvious choice'. I vote for them because I feel they deserve the award, for doing whatever the category is. I just feel that just because some won an award one time, shouldn't mean they can't win it again. I'm all for spreading awards around, but there are some things that one person deserves more than once.
Ack, i'm rambling now, and I'm really not sure what the point I'm trying to make is, so I'll shut up now I just voiced my opinion, and that is really all I have to say^^

Same thought. We can still think of rules for the next round...and maybe we can even think up of some new categories that could be suggested. You really can't blame the award winners though. Some ppl can be more amusing than others or more tolkien-know it alls, but it depends on like the community of the forum. We probably just don't know much about each other.

_________________



Capt. Jack: Shoot him and cut out his tongue! Then shoot his tongue!..and trim that scraggly beard.

yAAAy! The <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2007/tc20071218_443372.htm">Hobbit movie</a> is back on!!! Movie buffs get excited!

I'm going to have to agree with you on that one. I mean, its perfectly fine and reasonable to have a rule where a member is only allowed to win one award, because other members deserve a chance too, but a member is not allowed to win an award they have already won before, then the voting will become very insencere. I feel that if a member actually deserves to win an award more than once, then they should be allowed to. If a member is only allowed to win an award once, then pretty soon you'll have a horde of member award winners that dont even deserve the award, that won the awards because they've never won an award before. Thats just what i think.

_________________

I agree that a person should only be able to win the same award once in a row just to give other people a chance at winning them, since some people might be voting for people just because they won the same award the last time and they're just used to voting for that person.

I also agree with the suggestion about only winning one award. It just wouldn't make it fair for others who are nominated for that award.

_________________

^Sig set made by me. PM for requests.

"I am he [she =P] that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."

nobody can 'get used' to voting for someone. they only voted for that person once. you can't get used to doing something if you've only done it once.

_________________

Haldir, I think Lothwen was talking about getting used to voting for someone every six months, or however many times we're having the awards. [Right?] Like, if I just thought you were so random that I automatically voted for you every time, just without thinking about it.

_________________

^Thanks Gily!
<By Bubble Black

well ... if that were the case, then that person *me, in your example* would deserve your vote if you thought they were the most random

_________________