Niblets Nominations

I thought nominations were going through the 24th. I’ve been busy all week and was waiting until the weekend to get to it. Y’all cut the nominations short last year too. I think you should stick to your dates, no?

Also, here is some follow up from last year:

Thanks to MM for the work that goes into hosting this. I just want to follow up on some concerns raised last year about the process:

I’d like to ask those running this event to consider a few things: 1) to not make vote results viewable until the end 2) include a chronological view of vote patterns in the results, ie, how many votes were received on what day of voting for each catagory, 3) Shorten the voting period to no longer than a week. 4) Don’t accept all nominations at face value–the Niblets committee should examine each nomination and do any vetting (though very lightly–take out or reassign only the most obviously misplaced nominations) that may be necessary, using some common sense. See this comment and those immediately preceding and following: http://mormonmatters.org/2009/07/06/2008-niblets-rock-the-vote-here/#comment-89196
5) The analysis of what happened in one scenario and what happened in another is all great, but maybe make some clear criteria for “winning” and stick to it, instead of leaving some categories as going one way in this scenario and another way in this other scenario. Relatedly,
6) Make some effort to eliminate single-issue votes (must fill out 1/3 of the ballot to be counted?) and finally, 7) read through the comments on last years results thread and rethink ways to keep serious votes from being excluded and spurious votes from being counted.

I think that having viewable results in real time last year encouraged ballot stuffing instead of encouraging voters to focus on content. Having the voting open for so long last year was unnecessary when it was clear that within the first three or four days the majority of votes had been cast and by likely the more active and informed ‘nacle participants, prolonging it encouraged a rush at the end in some categories to get as many ballots stuffed in as possible. Also note that last year voting numbers hit rock bottom on the 7th day.

These are not demands, just hopeful suggestions. I’m not interested in fighting about it, I make these suggestions with the best of spirits and intentions. You or others may not agree, and that’s fine. Either way, thank you for putting this on and congrats to all nominees for all the great work this past year.

I applaud efforts to improve over last year including creating a separate category for humorous blogs and excluding for-profit blogs, and otherwise refining the categories.

Thanks.

I just read through the nomination thread, and I can’t find anywhere where Our Thoughts was nominated for best group blog.

Feel free to accuse me of shameless self-promotion, but I think Kaimi’s “How Wide the Divide . . . and can we ever Bridget?” deserves a nod for Best Post Title. I’d never heard someone make that play on my name before.

The even funnier part is, when Kaimi first told me about it, I totally didn’t get it. Yes, I am that slow.

Wow – I’m honored to be mentioned here. Thank you. Especially when I’ve been feeling like such a failure lately in the category of “contributing to interfaith dialogue”

Best Canadian blog was supposed to be write-in nomination. I should have been clearer.

Thanks.

I would like to nominate BOMC for a write-in category: Worst Web Design.

“Bridget Jack Meyers’ comment #16 at Like a Virgin”

To me that comment is highly offensive and ought to have been deleted.

Not funny at all.

#17 CarlosJC ~ To me that comment is highly offensive and ought to have been deleted.

As opposed to an entire thread that makes the serious case that God the Father and the virgin Mary were groin buddies, which isn’t offensive to anyone in the slightest.

Or in other words, I’d seriously reconsider my hierarchy of things that offend me if I were you.

With a question mark at the end of the title, preferably.

Ms. Jack Meyers #19,

I didn’t bother reading that post but followed the link on this page (nominations) thinking about the upcoming voting.

(I had not read most of what is nominated here)

If the thread is about that, ‘groin buddies’, then it too would be offensive to me. But I’m not reading it to find out.

Ok Ms. Jack Meyers,

That’s a decent explanation. Although for me it should be “incompatible” with biblical and BoM data, since she was a “virgin” giving birth. That is why the incest stories are highly offensive to me.

Still can’t see your comment as appropriate, although I guess it has become “memorable” to me too. How will I ever forget it now?

Wow, big omission on solo blog and reviews for not including BHodges at Life on Gold Plates.

I see that BCC is poised to win an award. If it does, God will not be pleased, and this will serve as a condemnation of the entire “Bloggernacle” community generally. I hereby invoke my Melchizedek Priesthood authority and dust-off my feet at anyone who votes for that den of reprobates.

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