This will be a medium for reviews, discussions, inputs and suggestions and all about the literature Awards.

Owkay, so about d 6 months membership thing....

repogirl: Owkay, so about d 6 months membership thing....

to vote right?

Its because people have a habit of creating multiple ids, so now we know who is who and voting will not be tempered with.

Okay....but six months is a long time, I almost didn't make the cut, can something be done about it?

it's okay if u want to stick with it though, since u r d initiator.

repogirl: Okay....but six months is a long time, I almost didn't make the cut, can something be done about it?

it's okay if u want to stick with it though, since u r d initiator.

you almost didn't? M sorry girl will review it then.

HumbledbYGrace: you almost didn't? M sorry girl will review it then.

okay then, thanks.

When is the thinny starting!?

Hi HBG, hope all's well? What's happening with the literary awards thing?

repogirl: Okay....but six months is a long time, I almost didn't make the cut, can something be done about it?

it's okay if u want to stick with it though, since u r d initiator.

The six months thingy won't stand. We will rather have it pegged at 1st September 2013

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kayemjay: Great Concept. Hope there would be tangible prizes like:


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Thanks for considering.

Let's start small. We need ideas anyway

Replied your mail, what do u think?

repogirl: Replied your mail, what do u think?

Please post it here.

Personally, I think we should have organisers instead of judges as the readers will be the ones voting anyway. We can have the writers/readers nominate the works they thing deserves award and the organisers will group them into genres.

We can then vote according to genres which will bring preliminary winners which will go in for the finals which will be the literature thread of the year.

We should also have a new comer's award and honorary award to a special writer. Even if the person is not longer here.

Mynd_44:
Please post it here.

Personally, I think we should have organisers instead of judges as the readers will be the ones voting anyway. We can have the writers/readers nominate the works they thing deserves award and the organisers will group them into genres.

We can then vote according to genres which will bring preliminary winners which will go in for the finals which will be the literature thread of the year.

We should also have a new comer's award and honorary award to a special writer. Even if the person is not longer here.

gud suggestion WW

Literature thread of the year....does that mean there'll be only one overall winner? If so, then we'll be loosing the initial idea behind the awards which was to have a winner from each genre.

I'm not sure it will be easy or fair to pitch genres against one another. One might care for action stories and not romance and therefore vote for his preference even if the other might be better.

I think these awards should be based on genre.

newcomers award and honorary award do sound good.

repogirl: Literature thread of the year....does that mean there'll be only one overall winner? If so, then we'll be loosing the initial idea behind the awards which was to have a winner from each genre.

I'm not sure it will be easy or fair to pitch genres against one another. One might care for action stories and not romance and therefore vote for his preference even if the other might be better.

I think these awards should be based on genre.

newcomers award and honorary award do sound good.

To buttress her point, I think there should be awards for different genres, then an award to an overall winner. Just like In Music Awards, you have best hip hop song, best rap, best soul, best rock, best raggae, best collabo, and you also have BEST SONG of the year.

Just my two cents though.

repogirl: Literature thread of the year....does that mean there'll be only one overall winner? If so, then we'll be loosing the initial idea behind the awards which was to have a winner from each genre.

I'm not sure it will be easy or fair to pitch genres against one another. One might care for action stories and not romance and therefore vote for his preference even if the other might be better.

I think these awards should be based on genre.

newcomers award and honorary award do sound good.

Okay....

That's why we have this thread

kayemjay:

To buttress her point, I think there should be awards for different genres, then an award to an overall winner. Just like In Music Awards, you have best hip hop song, best rap, best soul, best rock, best raggae, best collabo, and you also have BEST SONG of the year.

Just my two cents though.

This is my opinion but she said we should not pitch genres against themselves.

Forgive me if i am wrong @repogirl, but i do not think this is a battle of different genres.

What I mean is works would be grouped into genres and the threads that fall into a particular genre will battle for the award FOR THAT GENRE. Different awards for different genres, but at the end of it all, there should be an additional FINAL award for the Best Thread in Sexuality section.

That is the way awards are usually done.

You feeling me?

Yeah @ kayemjay, I get u and agree with it, makes sense.

@mynd, I thought u just wanted an overall award only.

@repogirl, Nah......

We will divide them and them go for an overall

At this junction, let me introduce our first organiser.

Texanomally.

She will be part of a dedicated team that will help with the grouping and logistics.

*claps hands gleefully * Yay!!

repogirl: *claps hands gleefully * Yay!!

Why you dem clap?

Please you can also nominate organisers oooo. I think we need 5 which means we have 4 empty slots. So nominate and suggest, the awards is yours not mine

I will be involved just as the moderator and security guard

What's d criteria for being an organizer? Can writers also be organizers or will that be a conflict of interest?

Mynd_44:

The awards is yours not mine

Ehen? Na so abi? Okay na.

Nice initiative here.

I have a problem with this 6month thing, if you stick to that I won't make the cut and am sure many people won't too. You can make it just a month, I think that would serve same purpose as the 6 month time span in terms of people creating new accounts to boost their votes.

Secondly, let's try and use a similar idea to the musical awards just as Kay suggested. Same way that there are awards for all genre and at the same time, there is the song of the year and artist of the year. Same should be applied here where is a thread of the year and poster of the year (I think, cuddles should merge the poster of the year award with this to create unity)

@mynd, when you say 'new comer' how exactly do you plan on enforcing that? I mean is it that you check the profile of people to know when they joined nairaland then it they make a time span cut, you check how influential they have been to the section? Or you just pick new threads? Or how exactly? I like the idea but am just wondering how possible it would be.

Mynd_44:

I will be involved just as the moderator and security guard

ol... Security guard?l

repogirl: What's d criteria for being an organizer? Can writers also be organizers or will that be a conflict of interest?

Big conflict of interest

@christar01,

I say the date should be pegged at 10th September 2013 for voters and threads have to be finished by that date to get nominated.

About multiple IDs, I will handle them my way

Mynd....clears throat, do threads have to be finished? There are lots of works that haven't been completed here o, what if they are 75 percent done, or 80, Or 90?

abeg, am openly begging for myself here. .

repogirl: *claps hands gleefully * Yay!!

lol I see you girl.