11-09-2012, 03:05 PM | #31 | |
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So. If you wish to use my supportive vote for fantasy in combination with the support for science-fiction and thus combine them into a single category--which is what I gather to be the proposal under consideration--then I would be all for it. |
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11-09-2012, 03:33 PM | #32 | |
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Sorry for any confusion. I did indeed wish to nominate “fantasy & Sci-Fi” as a category as well as “classics.”
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How are "Award Winners" and "Major Award Winners" different?
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Luckily Hamlet53 has now confirmed it. |
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The specifics of the awards allowed in the Award Winners category hasn't been clarified yet, and without clarification it would seem to mean any and all award winners, including the most obscure genre ones. The Major Award Winners category specifics has been clarified for the most part and only includes major non-genre awards.
Award Winners could end up being the same or very similar to Major Award Winners, but we don't know because it hasn't been decided yet (if ever...it may very well be left to us to decide what constitutes an "award winner" by our seconds and thirds during the month...in which case that would mean pretty much any award would be allowed). I think, for these category noms and voting, it's fairer for everyone for the category to be clear beforehand, as Major Award Winners is, so they know what they're supporting. I don't think it'd be fair for someone to support Award Winners thinking it'd be basically major award winners, and then it turns out it will allow even the most obscure genre awards as well, and the nominations end up filled with them. Conversely, someone else may only support it if it did also allow obscure genre awards so it's only fair for them to know what the category is. And there's a big difference between a Major Award Winners category and an Anything Goes Award Winners category. Quote:
In fact, I think that going forward with these category nominations, Tom would do well to include some wording asking nominators to briefly describe the specifics of a new category they're nominating unless they're OK with the broadest possible definition of it. I.e. as it stands I think Modern Fiction means any fiction book in any genre as long as the book is not too too old, and Award Winners means any book that has gotten any kind of award at all. |
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11-09-2012, 05:29 PM | #37 | |
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fantasyfan, you can re-use that vote as you choose. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 11-09-2012 at 05:32 PM. |
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11-09-2012, 05:34 PM | #38 |
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11-09-2012, 05:42 PM | #39 |
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11-09-2012, 06:29 PM | #40 |
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I'll use my final vote to support Hamlet53's nomination of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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11-09-2012, 07:58 PM | #41 | |
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My head is beginning to ache from this , I laud Tom for able being to cope. We are going to have to repeat all this monthly for the next 11 months ? I support “Modern Fiction” as a category. I would like that guidance attached to the category. It is my experience that well defined rules, like has to be an ebook and no repeats of books, are enforced, the standards of what constitutes a book in the “xxx” genre are extremely loose anyway. |
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11-09-2012, 08:35 PM | #42 | |
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There's a faction that believes the terms Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, SF, F&SF, and sometimes Speculative Fiction are all euphemisms for the same genre. There's another faction that insists they are at least 3, possibly 5, different categories, and that it's insulting to describe a book by the wrong one. There's another faction that believes it's one genre (or maybe two) but only one term (or two) is actually correct, and the other labels are derogatory. I'm fine with anything as long as we don't call it Syfy. |
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11-09-2012, 08:40 PM | #43 | |
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I liked the genres being roughly attached to the months--February for romance, April for humor, October for horror. Doing a month-at-a-time selection has a chance of losing that, especially as people nominate their choice of genre every month that might not otherwise be selected. I can see reasons to getting January's topic established quickly; I really hope we won't use this method exactly for each month. I'd also like to see a thread or multiple threads about defining the genres/categories. |
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We may have some fine tuning to do on certain categories (such as if "Award Winners" wins one month), but we can do that while we do the other. |
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Well that's very ambitious of you. I hope this all goes well.
In the meantime can I pre-program a nomination for Indie for every month until the end of the year or whenever it wins a vote, whichever comes first? |
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