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I'd kind of like to see the author awards for a category

> go to
> the person who got the highest average or something of that sort.

Well, I'd sort of kick against that. The way it is set up now, an author has
a chance of winning an author award even if their stories are not high on the
list. Perhaps an author writes very long stories that few had time to read and
comment on (ok, so I am among the longest-winded), yet someone familiar with
that author's work took the time to leave an author comment, in general, for
the category.

Or perhaps an author who writes both slash and gen has only slash stories
entered. No offence meant to slash writers here, it is something that I tend to
avoid for my own personal reasons. If I think that writer is an awesome writer
I'd be unlikely to leave reviews for the slash stories, but I'd take the time
to leave a glowing review for the author in general, knowing their other work
in the category of drama or humour or whatever. Since the awards are not
divided into separate slash/het-gen categories (no, I am not suggesting that they
be so divided) this is a possible scenario.

Wouldn't the person with the highest average already have one or more awards
for stories in that category? Sorry if I'm mistaken--math is one of my weak
points. Somewhere I got the impression that there were lots of categories and
author awards in addition, in order to spread the awards around a bit more.

Lin


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Hi Lin,

> > I'd kind of like to see the author awards for a category
> > go to
> >  the person who got the highest average or something of that sort.
>
> Well, I'd sort of kick against that. The way it is set up now, an
> author has
> a chance of winning an author award even if their stories are not
> high on the
> list. <snip>
> If I think that writer is an awesome writer
> I'd be unlikely to leave reviews for the slash stories, but I'd take
> the time
> to leave a glowing review for the author in general, knowing their
> other work
> in the category of drama or humour or whatever.

I think you make a good point. And on a very selfish level I *like*
receiving author votes (and writing them, for that matter). I think
there should be an easier way to use the same author vote for every
category where the author is entered that displays it only once and
requires you to only enter it once. But that's a different topic. And
one that I've just now added to my list.

> Wouldn't the person with the highest average already have one or more
> awards
> for stories in that category? Sorry if I'm mistaken--math is one of
> my weak
> points. Somewhere I got the impression that there were lots of
> categories and
> author awards in addition, in order to spread the awards around a bit
> more.
>

Well, theoretically it's very possible that the author with the highest
average hasn't won a story category. Let's say I have two pieces in a
story sub-category in the hobbits category. One of those has a score of
20, the other of 10. So my average would be 15. Let's say you on the
other hand have one entry with seventeen points. So your average is
higher than mine, but my first story would still rank higher than
yours. So it's possible that I could end up with a story vote and you
couldn't, but then you could end up with a higher average so you could
qualify for an author award while I wouldn't.

But I agree, it does seem to favor those people who already have
awards. I noticed a lot o authors who received author awards when they
didn't receive story awards, and i liked that.

Cheers,
Marta

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