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Originally Posted by: MidnightFairy  Originally Posted by: _Slap_Chop_ Originally Posted by: _Jessi_ Well, when i read my first post, i dont see that i speak against Kathy or the winner of the awards. As well that wasnt my intention.
I know that Kathy spend many hours in that, and i personal appreciate that, as its a good thing to have a yearly award.
In the last weeks i spoke with Kathy a few times and she is really nice, so no intention to talk her bad here.
But i think, that creating random subcategories takes away the importance of the award, there are just to many.
If you want to give more awards out than one per category, maybe a bronce and silver award, that would make three awards per category.
Everybody knows that a big part of the regular forum users are just here to post personal attacks and start "forum wars" but this here is only constructive critic. Thats your problem, right there.. You are attributing a level of importance to the awards that just isnt there. The awards are purely for fun.. nothing more, nothing less. So with that in mind, why not have a bunch of awards.. that just means more people will smile.and so what.. once a year we have to put up with a bunch of bulletins and messages asking "will you vote for me?". then its over, and you see people proudly displaying their award on their profile. Originally Posted by: MarcusK The awards are fun. I take pride in the award that Cowboys got - Friendliest Country Club. Stop in and see why. The way I think of it is, someone felt you should be nominated (unless you nominated yourself, which I did not). Enough people agreed that you should get an award to make it worthwhile for one to be had.
I think they are fun and I see no problem with the amount of awards. Actually I don't think that’s a problem that Jessi has pointed out ... I think she's making a good point as Marcus says there’s some pride in the award that they achieved and I know a lot of other people have had similar things; however the awards are done by the plenty so that basically nearly everyone can win ... I don't see where the fun is in winning an award that's been set out just for you to win. I feel there are so many awards and this lowers the possibility of their being any competition at all, which takes away the aspect of them being there for fun.
For example I'm pretty sure if they did some forum awards and one of the awards goes to the:
"Friendlist Fairy in the Forums"
Then by default it looks pretty good that it'll go to me just because I have the word Fairy in my name. However if there was an award for:
"Friendlist Poster in the Forums"
Then there is a lot of competition in that which makes it all that bit more fun  I think thats very well said. And exactly the point Jessi was making. Yes they are in fun. But it does also seem to me that the people that get them take pride in them and in some cases take them very seriously. Now when people advertise their clubs/services etc, they make sure to add their recognition to their postings. If it didnt mean something to them - and was soley fun - it would just be a poster on the wall of profile somewhere. Not taking anything away from you Marcus, bec maybe your club would have won the award anyway, but Friendliest Club would have been fine. Not sure a genre of music would effect overall friendliness. Just like not sure how being a fairy would effect forum friendliness. And as said above.. where is the fun in winning an award that was set out for one person? I would have voted for my favorite club in the friendliness category - but didnt even know the category existed  Oh well.. it is what it is.
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