Announcing Finalists

[focker]

Along with other improprieties:

When someone in charge of the awards announces days ahead of time that their close, personal friend has won an award in her journal entry, blog, what have you. I don't think it has anything to do with graphics being made, either.

Something's rotten in Denmark.:(

[pzarquon]

This is expressly frowned upon in the existing awards guidelines, and the responsible party/parties were soundly flogged. It won't happen again.

[slickeryshae]

It's frowned upon? Big whoop.

My mother frowns upon me staying up until 3 am but I do it anyway.

Is it now expressly against the rules and anyone doing so in the future will be baned from serving as a panelist or overseer forever?

Or will they just be scolded and tsked at and they will continue to be in charge or on the panel in the future as is now the case?

[roghawk]

any answers to these questions?

mainly I'm wondering if in the future someone is tempted to repeat this, will they know they will be frowned upon? if so, how?

not that this is a pressing issue, but I think will up tidy up the process

[pineapple]

This is exactly one of the reasons that I oppose announcing nominees. If even the finalists/winners can be announced improperly, imagine the room for error when the pool grows to the hundreds.

[pzarquon]

"Frowned upon" minimally includes a scolding by yours truly...

It's hard, really, to brainstorm penalties and punishments for a largely volunteer-based operation. :)

The guidelines do state: "All deliberations, discussions, and documents generated by the panel are absolutely confidential. Disclosure to outside parties of any panel matters is grounds for immediate removal, and indefinite ineligibility in future panels."

Fortunately we've not had any major problems, mostly a few cases of premature jubilation. We're mostly concerned with the assorted databases getting passed around, or the substance of a debate over this nominee or that.

[Rob]

Originally posted by pzarquon
Fortunately we've not had any major problems, mostly a few cases of premature jubilation.

I guess that depends on who you are. To those of us who were nominees in the category where the winner was crowed about days before the announcement was made, it felt like a slap in the face. (Or at least it did to me; I can't speak for the other nominee.) Whether or not it was intended that way is obviously a matter of debate. I won't say it felt like a MAJOR problem (I didn't weep or shake my angry fists at the sky), but it didn't do much for the credibility of the Awards. That was like a year ago, and it's still being discussed.

But as long as she got a good scolding...