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I was thinking along the same lines--that if the nominator's name was
suppressed, at least *please* let the author see who the nominator is, especially as
a boon to authors who are thankful sorts.

I really paid almost no attention to the nominator of a story, once I'd
finished working through the "plan" I originally had for reviewing. The summary is
the first thing I looked at, then the rating. Sometimes I looked at the
nominator's name after reading a story, but it was not my first thought.

If you wanted to be totally un-cliquish I suppose you could make the awards
random--you click "read a story" and a story would come up to read and perhaps
vote on by writing a review. And then when you've submitted your vote, you
click "read a story" again, etc. However, that would be way too nerve-wracking a
prospect for me, and I would not participate. I really don't like surprises
all that much.

Lin

In a message dated 11/5/2005 4:22:15 PM Pacific Standard Time,
MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com writes:
As to people who seem to be guided by *who* nominated a piece, I don't
really have a big problem with not showing who the nominator is--although I
think it should be rigged so the *author* will know who nominated her, at
the least--because I paid no attention to that at all. I voted first by
category, and then a few times by author, and then as my time got short,
totally at random.


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