Comments on: Some Kind of Anime Blog Awards Going On…

By: David

David — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:46:58 +0000

At first I thought it was “The Anime Blog” who was setting it up, but I’m not so sure now. It all seems a bit shady.

Rachel and I were surprised (and a little confused) about ‘The Anime Blog Awards’ too. There’s no connection to our site though. Perhaps they should have called it ‘Anime Blogging Awards’ or something?

All I know is that it’s gonna look weird if ‘The Anime Blog’ has been nominated for an ‘The Anime Blog Award’…

It might be even more confusing in the future, because we have a section under development on our site called ‘The Anime Blog Awards’.

Sigh…

By: alafista

alafista — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:25:03 +0000

I also think that keeping it transparent would be better. Maybe a good way would be to have it done by a neutral party or maybe the organisers pulling out of the award themselves?

I just think its going to bring more exposure to good sites out there that people might not have know about.

By: Impz

Impz — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:06:12 +0000

Impz likes to hide.

Anyway, after the blogger’s voting, there will be a next phrase for reader’s choice. There will be reader involvement so there is no worry about that. The issue with nominations by the public is that there are a few major concerns

1. Messy affair

2. Extremely popular blogs likely to choke up the top 5 places.

Then people will go like “this is all popularity!”. We accept that it’s not the most idle situation but still. Anyway, owen is a meanie and he’s evil. YAY!

By: Owen S

Owen S — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:14:58 +0000

He was planning to make it public on its “official” launch date, actually — April the 1st. It’s something he thought would be a good idea, apparently. I’ll have to let him know about how this isn’t doing The ABA a whole lot of good ASAP when I see him. :/ But I get where you’re coming from.

By: Hung

Hung — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:57:36 +0000

It’s probably a situation of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” disclose who you are. In any case, I think offering some transparency is the way to go. People are obviously going to question you if you’ve created some “community” awards in secret and decide to launch without saying who you are.

Would it really be better for Impz to hide that he’s behind the awards, only to emerge after winning a bunch of them? This is merely a hypothetical example, BTW.

By: Owen S

Owen S — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:29:24 +0000

What I’ve gotten from past experiences is that when you try to organize something for the community, there will inevitably be ad hominems and poisoning of the well going on, accusations of bias and personal gain, where naysayers try to take you down without even considering what’s trying to be done in their obtuseness.

With that in mind, it’s not surprising that The ABA organisers have chosen to stay relatively anonymous (for now). Just my thoughts. (: