these nominess kinda blow,
wylde better win for design, at leats he doesnt hire russians as fulltime designers and act like its coming from the same ppl,
I have no connection to xbiz -- I have not bought ads there since 2002, and I don't trade traffic with Giga. if you find a connection, it will be stretch...
This is our second year being nominated, first year we had no affiliation with xbiz, this year we have done a little bit of business but not much.
I think all the nominations are pretty good, except the Affiliate Program section could have so many potential nominees, it would be hard to make everyone happy. ARS looks prime to win that category though ;-)
My picks for winners are
ARS
Hustler
Epoch
National Net
Wyldesites, but only just! (Blue Design 1 vote behind haha)
MPA2
GFY
Well, my biggest beef with the whole nomination process was that the resource site category had been left out which is a fundamental category to our industry in my opinion. I could very well post a link to a thread where this whole thing was discussed but I don't want to disrespect Lens like that. But in this thread the issue was raised as to why this category was deleted and it was stated by an employee and this is a quote from that thread "The reason for no Resource this year is because of a few reasons.
Since XBiz is a Resource, we felt it was conflict
We have a limited amount of time for Awards show so we eliminated this cat in order to add a couple others such as Innovation and Industry Achievement.
Resource sites/boards can be nominated in the People's Choice.
Resource sites are vital to the industry- they can still be honored."
Now, since helmy owned sites are not eligible for participation then why is it that it is a conflict to have a resource site category and not a sponsor/affiliate category?
Now, something smells rotten in Denmark considering the various excuses other than the one listed above for not having the resource site category. There was also an excuse listed about not having enough time to include it. WTF??? It was in place last year but they had time to remove it from the listing? I'm not sure what's going on but last year they at least listed all the companies that received nominations and then just narrowed it down from that list to a list of finalists. Instead this year they only post 4 per category and none of the other submissions even get a nod of recognition.
The biggest problem with no resource site category is that we all use resource sites on a daily basis. They are the backbone of the industry. Without them it would be a hell of a lot more difficult to get our jobs done. Some of us don't use designers and some of us don't use affiliate sites and some of us don't use content sites.. but guess what EVERY single one of us uses resource sites. Yes, it can be included in the people's choice but why? Why does it not have it's own category and reserve the people's choice for something that is truly unique or stand out.
I do applaud those that are nominated but how valid can you consider these awards when the most obvious category has been deleted and they didn't even give a passing mention to ALL the sites that were nominated like they did last year.
Originally posted by undermyspell Well, my biggest beef with the whole nomination process was that the resource site category had been left out which is a fundamental category to our industry in my opinion. I could very well post a link to a thread where this whole thing was discussed but I don't want to disrespect Lens like that. But in this thread the issue was raised as to why this category was deleted and it was stated by an employee and this is a quote from that thread "The reason for no Resource this year is because of a few reasons.
Since XBiz is a Resource, we felt it was conflict
We have a limited amount of time for Awards show so we eliminated this cat in order to add a couple others such as Innovation and Industry Achievement.
Resource sites/boards can be nominated in the People's Choice.
Resource sites are vital to the industry- they can still be honored."
Now, since helmy owned sites are not eligible for participation then why is it that it is a conflict to have a resource site category and not a sponsor/affiliate category?
Now, something smells rotten in Denmark considering the various excuses other than the one listed above for not having the resource site category. There was also an excuse listed about not having enough time to include it. WTF??? It was in place last year but they had time to remove it from the listing? I'm not sure what's going on but last year they at least listed all the companies that received nominations and then just narrowed it down from that list to a list of finalists. Instead this year they only post 4 per category and none of the other submissions even get a nod of recognition.
The biggest problem with no resource site category is that we all use resource sites on a daily basis. They are the backbone of the industry. Without them it would be a hell of a lot more difficult to get our jobs done. Some of us don't use designers and some of us don't use affiliate sites and some of us don't use content sites.. but guess what EVERY single one of us uses resource sites. Yes, it can be included in the people's choice but why? Why does it not have it's own category and reserve the people's choice for something that is truly unique or stand out.
I do applaud those that are nominated but how valid can you consider these awards when the most obvious category has been deleted and they didn't even give a passing mention to ALL the sites that were nominated like they did last year.
Quack, Quack
at least im not the only one who recognizes this for the scam it is
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I hope you guys win, it may help get the bitter taste of defeat from 2000 awards R-N lost out to KarasXXX and left the room pouting! Will the team fly in from overseas to make a speech?
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