Serious changes to the awards (2019-2020)
A few changes I'm considering:
1. A "historian* basically someone who has been in the community a bit, around 25-50 people, who vote on the ballots of those who you've nominated. These would be for the Player/Alliance categories only.
2. Everyone else votes on everything else, Community categories.
To make sure the #1 was fair, it would be 1 person from everyone top 25 alliances, and then 25 people picked by the community(read, me)
Basically, it would app
These are politicized every year because it's the nature of the beast. Every year, there's someone whining about them being "unfair," "unobjective," or otherwise "rigged."
The reason they are politicized is because they're "official." They have their own dedicated subforum here and the results are displayed in-game.
We're never going to achieve a "fair" or "objective" outcome by changing the process unless that change makes the awards unofficial - not held in their own special subforu
