User blog comment:Darkest Shadow/SFW Summer Awards 2016 Category Discussion/@comment-1942179-20160510003606

I kinda have some questions about the current polls. You're asking if Best Genius and Best Mechanic should merge, but don't explain what will happen when they do merge. Are we just going to go back to how it was before, where they're basically judged by how smart they are and how many things they've invented? Are we going to have Best Inventor? (which would honestly be easier to deal with)  What is going to happen if everyone votes Yes?

Meanwhile, there's the whole Best Fanfic merging. Nowhere did anyone say that we should merge all three of them together. Pitting Fanfics against Fan-Series against Fan-Games and Movies and Web Animations and whatever other project fits into that category is...well, come on now. We're comparing apples to oranges to bananas to pears here. There's gotta be a line drawn SOMEWHERE. On that note, while I said that it makes more sense to merge Best Fanfic and Fan-Series than to merge Fanfic and Fan Project, I have to say that I'm kind of against merging them at all. They're kind of all on different scales, as I (and Chames before me) just went over. I'd rather that instead of combining them, we got rid of one of them. I feel that we could do without Fan-Project. (it's like 90% fan game concepts, anyway. Those might as well be fanfiction.)

And thanks to Chames once more for bringing this to my attention, why is Strongest Character (one of the most popular categories in terms of nominations) up for vote but Best Attack/Skill (the one category that barely ever breaks 5 nominations tops) is confirmed? I mean sure, I like the latter better than the former, admittedly, but I'd rather not confirm that so soon.