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Comment on Announcing the Nominees for the 2024 Lemmy Anime Awards

I capped the number of nominees in each category at 5.

I was under the impression that anything that have been nominated is fair game for voting. STAR voting is able to handle the case of multiple candidates without incurring the spoiler effect.

I understand if you want to cut down the number of nominees to make voting easier. IMO this could have been avoided by having a better form / frontend.

Can you share the number of nominations that each anime receive with each category after the voting round is over? I’m surprised at the nomination result for some categories (e.g. Apothecary Diaries not being in top 5 for Anime of the Year)

Same thing applies to the manga nominees.

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wjs018@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Allowing all the nominations to be finalists eligible for voting would have been a lot. Not just asking people to read through ~20-40 nominees for each category, but taking the time on my end of creating a survey with that many entries. I simply do not have the time to do that. I apologize if I was misleading during the nomination round. Like I mentioned elsewhere, this came together pretty quickly, and I am absolutely open to feedback like this for if/when we do something like this again.

As for sharing nomination data, I don’t want to be completely transparent to that degree. It’s not that I rigged the system or anything, but I just think it invites people to argue over every case of where I made any kind of judgement call and I don’t think that will be productive. In the specific case of Apothecary Diaries, this was surprising to me too. I can share a bit about this category specifically.

Here is a graph of the number of nominations for the top 10 most-nominated titles. I marked generally on the graph where Frieren and Apothecary fall to offer a comparison due to the two shows straddling the 2023/2024 seasons in the same way.

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In future iterations of this process, I think I (or somebody) might have to take a more active role in adjudicating nominees. I do worry now that people know I made these calls based on number of nominations that they could simply fill out the form a bunch of times. There are some steps I can take on my end to prevent or filter that, but it would also mean doing things like attaching browser cookies to the form or recording ip addresses, which I haven’t wanted to do out of respect for the users.

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- I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I am absolutely open to feedback like this for if/when we do something like this again.
  
  Just some ideas -
  
  Limiting the options - you could pull the anime’s that have aired in the time frame from one of the Anime databases and limit the users to searchable drop downs.
  
  I do worry now that people know I made these calls based on number of nominations that they could simply fill out the form a bunch of times. There are some steps I can take on my end to prevent or filter that, but it would also mean doing things like attaching browser cookies to the form or recording ip addresses, which I haven’t wanted to do out of respect for the users.
  
  I feel it would be less intrusive than cookies or IP addresses to have a confirmation like you do with email signups. You could have an optional input for Lemmy Username and have a script to send the user a message via Lemmy to confirm they made a submission (… reply ‘YES’ to confirm…). Blank or unconfirmed submission could be treated with less importance when taking nominations due to the possibility of multiple submissions.
  
  If you do decide to do it again in the future I am happy to help when possible.
  
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