User blog comment:Wikikinetic/New Awards Idea/@comment-5518179-20180924203050/@comment-32712012-20180924235259

Thanks for the suggestions! These are some pretty cool ideas.

I have a few questions about them, listed below:
 * 1) I'm not exactly sure what regulations you're talking about...Could you clarify that? (I believe that there are regulations, but I can't properly address your point without knowing what your point is.)
 * 2) I get that everyone wants the awards to die, and I'm fine with that if everyone else is. As long as people have other ideas, though, it's interesting—for me, at least—to talk about them.
 * 3) The writing contest idea sounds like an interesting one; while it does, of course, limit the pool to new characters, it could definitely encourage people to keep writing and to keep improving their quality. (On the flip side, it could discourage people who think that their stuff will never be good enough to compete, but that's a problem in the current Awards too, so the problem is negligible.) I have a couple of questions about the raffle part, though:
 * When you say "raffle off characters", is this like a dA commission where you're actually selling your characters to someone else, or is this just paying the authors for their work?
 * This probably should have been clear to me, but...who's paying this money?

If you get a chance, I'd like to see the answers to these questions. If not, that's fine too.

Thanks again for posting these ideas!