Well, I'm sorry to read that - I'm sure it wasn't pleasant for you.
Personally, I'm not boycotting or taking sides but next year I won't be participating in any form. Normally I stay the hell way during reading season and it's not like my fics get nominated so everything is fine, but this year I had a stupid bout of enthusiasm and nominated a few fics and (I'm sure this was a consequence) a couple of mine were nommed. Then the fics I nommed started being shuffled around categories in a perfectly illogical way (which, granted, was part of the 'rules', though I'd never think it would go to these extremes), not to mention that this was needed because the categories were shite to begin with. Then there is the slash mixed with het - I have a story about a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in a world where this is not a piece of cake stuffed with het fics in the "Arwen dies" category. Brill. Then there is the lenght of the fics. You can't honestly expect people to read every fic and fairly vote if you accept an incredible high number of novel lenght fics. There should be a limitation or a separate category for this.
I'm not even saying this award is worse than others - look at the last time I participated in the MEFAs, which in theory are a sound, fangrrl, low quality proof awards - this HASA chick completely flooded the nomms with her terrible drabbles and her votes, lord! You'd have to see it to believe it, but I'm sure you can ask larian who quit the same year I did. And of course the Awards for HASA Mithril Awards, which are only elitist in theory, because in practice, crap fic abounds. The BAFTAS that never took off but were only meant to award a certain someone and friends... the Glemil Estel or something to that effect which were basically the same but organised by that certain someone's archnemesis...
I could go on, but I won't. The bottom line is that there aren't any awards that I think honour the people receiving them. I appreciate the nominations but even if I won, and I won't, it would still be the nomination that would count best for me. Eh, sorry, this wasn't all that related to your post but it sorta wanted to get off my chest.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-06-26 06:17 am (UTC)Personally, I'm not boycotting or taking sides but next year I won't be participating in any form. Normally I stay the hell way during reading season and it's not like my fics get nominated so everything is fine, but this year I had a stupid bout of enthusiasm and nominated a few fics and (I'm sure this was a consequence) a couple of mine were nommed. Then the fics I nommed started being shuffled around categories in a perfectly illogical way (which, granted, was part of the 'rules', though I'd never think it would go to these extremes), not to mention that this was needed because the categories were shite to begin with. Then there is the slash mixed with het - I have a story about a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in a world where this is not a piece of cake stuffed with het fics in the "Arwen dies" category. Brill. Then there is the lenght of the fics. You can't honestly expect people to read every fic and fairly vote if you accept an incredible high number of novel lenght fics. There should be a limitation or a separate category for this.
I'm not even saying this award is worse than others - look at the last time I participated in the MEFAs, which in theory are a sound, fangrrl, low quality proof awards - this HASA chick completely flooded the nomms with her terrible drabbles and her votes, lord! You'd have to see it to believe it, but I'm sure you can ask
Awards for HASAMithril Awards, which are only elitist in theory, because in practice, crap fic abounds. The BAFTAS that never took off but were only meant to award a certain someone and friends... the Glemil Estel or something to that effect which were basically the same but organised by that certain someone's archnemesis...I could go on, but I won't. The bottom line is that there aren't any awards that I think honour the people receiving them. I appreciate the nominations but even if I won, and I won't, it would still be the nomination that would count best for me. Eh, sorry, this wasn't all that related to your post but it sorta wanted to get off my chest.
*hugs*