SW Feedback: Why haven't you voted in SW Awards?

To Stevo's idea:

I think we should keep Old Guard, Writer or Reviewer, Most Respected, Finest Taste, and Should Post More. That brings us to 20. Split it into two groups of 10 and one of 9. Have King be it's own thing.

Do nominations of some kind. Top 5, but everyone can only list 3, and do it via points. Then have final voting on all of 'em. I think that'll be good, and we'll allow for lots of people to be mentioned. That's basically what I was thinking of while I was trying to figure stuff out, and I think it'll make it simpler but also allow for a lot of users to be recognized.

Updated.

Thread of the year is right on :D thanks Char...

THIS. 8-\

The reviewer option is something I know that a lot of users wouldn't have a clue on who to vote for, and best writer seems redundant with respect to best debator. Finest taste is alright, and user who should post more are fine additions. I'm just trying to cut it down as much as possible since the more things we ask of users, the less theyre likely to vote, especially in relation to have them list up to 3 persons per category. Top 5 or top 4 matters little, I'm fine with either.

Not a fan of the worst game, publisher, developer, or thread of the year. That will typically end up being something that does not warrant such attention. Worst platform of the year seems like a valid addition along side best platform; although, I wouldnt want both end up being the same platform, that would be silly. So perhaps no on that as well.

Eh, I think best writer warrants its own thing. We have plenty of people who write up awesome posts without debating.

You almost need to take the System Wars Awards OFF of system wars and host it externally where you can have a nice interface for it instead of the shitshow these forums let you make.

I feel ya man, I really wanted to push to take SWM to a E-Magazine but jesus christ I almost fainted when I seen the cost of entry. I might still give it a shot with Apple devices (Even though I don't own one) But even then I need to buy a Developer permit from Apple for 100 smackers.

Then again I did spend a fair bit of cash on the print magazine when I was doing them like that!

That's true, although I still think the two are pretty synonymous.

To bring this topic up for discussion again, I created an example of what a google form voting would look like. Here.

Again, what the process would look like to get the "options filled" will be a nomination thread ordeal. Have three nomination threads with the categories.

Have users vote their top 2 to 5 users for each category (User 1 receives 5 points, User 2 receives 3 points, User 3 through 5 receive 1 point). The top five users with the most points in each category will be inserted into the ballot processes for 2 through 15 via Google forms (see link in first sentence). However, the SW King vote will be a SystemWars poll thread where users will vote on the poll and thread. For each of the threads, the timing will be one week. After that week, the thread or form will be closed.

LolSWAwards

That being said, I like the idea. Let's do it.

Because its a crappy way to determine whats really the best. The winners are just popular stuff.

@Stevo_the_gamer: The idea is great. Nominations may be even more of a hassle now since you'd be asked to list more than one nominee, but voting would be incredibly streamlined. Separating the nominations threads would be great. That way you're not overwhelmed by the categories and can take more time thinking about each individual one.

My question with the proposed change is this: once you take the voting to the form voting on Google, is there a way to track the users who voted? Or will we just have to accept that anyone, regardless of level/post count can vote as many times as they want?

because i don't believe in the democratic process.

also corruption.

the sw awards are completely bought out by the forces of big fanboy.

Has nothing to do with games

That is the kink that is the biggest drawback to the new change. A simple fix I just added is a text insert where you have to insert your Gamespot username so I (and whoever else is helping) can see who's voting.

I voted, because when you fight for truth, justice and freedom while all the while educating the masses, you need to lead by example.