Fic Talk > Felix Awards 2011
Exit Survey
julilly:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 18, 2012, 11:38:22 PM ---One suggestion could be to limit the number of categories a certain author or story could be up for, but that would only be necessary if there were a problem with categories filling up, and I'm not sure that has been a real issue. I know there was a maximum of ten nominees allowed in each category, but only a few of the categories actually had ten nominees; most had less than ten. If there were other creative, talented writers who could have filled those empty slots, why weren't they nominated? It's down to the readers to nominate and vote for the authors and stories they feel are most deserving. We may only be able to vote for one, but we can nominate as many as we want, so if there was someone deserving who wasn't even nominated, then their readers dropped the ball.
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I was going to mention this in a separate post but seeing the convo you and Rachel are having I figured I might as well bring it up here. One reason why I have the exit survey this year is not just to see the results but see how many people actually bother to vote.
I won't lie, this year was pretty pathetic when it came to participation. We had to extend the period for nominations because no one was submitting them, it was a real challenge to fill in some of the categories and honestly I can't believe we had a category that only had three nominees. There was only three categories that went to the cap of 10 (Romance and Drama, which is to be expected, and short story) but that was the most nominations that any category received. What that should tell you is that there were only 10 people who submitted nominations for the most popular categories. There were less than 20 people who nominated stories this year. Less than 20!
Voting was even worse. That survey was up for over a month and there was a grand total of 80 votes. That's about 70% less than last year and 100% less than the year before. In all, that means only 27% of AC members control the outcome of the awards. The others though will complain when they don't win.
Everyone wants to win an award but no one wants to do any work to get to that point and writers being able to nominate themselves is not the solution. I know people are reading, there are stories with hundreds of reviews and an even higher read counts but no one is participating - they just want the banner at the end of it all.
That's why I'm asking these questions because it's a lot of work for me to do to if not even 20 people give a crap.
Carter-Orange:
I liked the way the awards were this year and definitely want to see it carried on!
Thanks for all the hard work you put in to it :)
julilly:
Thanks Steph, glad you got to catch up this morning! :)
Re: the exit survey. I really am open to all the above suggestions. The reason I'm providing you all with the explanations as to why things are the way they are now is in case you might have any suggestions/recommendations for how to get around those obstacles. Obviously we have exhausted our ideas, but fresh ones are welcomed!
RokofAges75:
Thanks for the insight, Julilly. I am guessing most of us that are posting in this thread nominated and voted for the awards. I know I did both. Like I said, most of us writers are also readers, so we have our favorites too.
I wonder why more of the readers didn't participate. Do they just not care? I don't get it. Voting takes all of a few minutes, maximum, so why didn't more than 80 people vote? 80 doesn't sound like a low number, at first, but when you take into account all the people on AC, I guess it is. 140 people follow the AC Twitter - why didn't they all vote? If they care enough to be following the site on Twitter, you'd think they'd have some interest in this.
It's also weird that less than 20 people bothered to nominate anyone. I'm just curious - did any of the nominations come from readers who don't write themselves, or did they all come from "us," the writers... and more specifically, the writers who post on the forum?
If anyone's complaining about a lack of variety in nominees/winners, there's the reason. If only a small percentage of readers submitted nominations, you're only going to have a small sample of stories represented. More categories isn't going to help that. Sounds like we just need more participation!
RokofAges75:
Maybe next year someone could make an "I Voted" or "I Nominated" graphic, like the stickers you get after voting in real life, that people could display in their signatures or as avys or whatever after they nominate/vote. They would only get it once they PMed nominations, or it could be posted on the page that comes up after you finish the poll. If a lot of us displayed the graphic, it would be a constant reminder for people to go nominate/vote.
Or maybe we need to go all P. Diddy and start a "Vote or Die" campaign LOL.
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