User blog comment:Darkest Shadow/SFW Winter Awards 2016-2017/@comment-4988763-20170302153059/@comment-4567194-20170303034519

Jeez Louise, I'm gone for not even half a day and all hell breaks loose. I'll try my best to respond to all of these.

[Dramatic inhale]

Yes, I'll admit that it is pretty unfair for all the votes to be tallied (kudos to the three other users who actually finished & skull). Tbh I knew that pandemonium was going to happen over doing this, but with totals that low, there would be way too many ties and the whole thing would be extremely messy.

Btw, I don't know where this even happened, but if a user didn't finish a category, I didn't add their votes for said category. If I did, it was probably just an honest mistake. And as for you Julia, yes you're only allowed to skip three categories in order for your votes to be tallied, but since we had a severe lack of people who actually finished voting, I had to make an exception to finish.

While I do blame most of this on myself, some of the voters gotta take part of the blame for not getting their votes done in time. I cracked two extensions, commented on people's blogs about it, commented on the skype group chat about people finishing, and generally couldn't stress enough on how strongly I encouraged people to finish their votes. I get people being busy, believe me, my life is a living hell right now too, but the quicker you get it over with, the less stressful it is. One more extension and we'd barely have time to recover from this season and have literally a month to transition into the Summer Awards. In the future, please, please take my advice and finish voting sooner. God, if I finished my votes this week, life would be absolutely atrocious for me. Let this be kind of a life lesson. Quicker you get it over with, the less painful it has to be.

Now I've read the complaints  remarks on the newly added "User Forced Neutral" rule. Let me just say that this rule started this season I really should've added that to the rules list, god i'm dumb  Yes, this rule has been discussed in the past as a thought, but it wasn't enforced until this season.

More about the messy, new rule, if a nominee cannot have a chance at winning a category from losing by one point due to the fact that the voter's character was their own, they can still qualify for the final round. This was a suggestion someone made god knows how long ago, not a rule. The host at that season didn't enforce the rule (I don't remember if it was me or Smash) Starry just brought it to my attention this season this season I just happened to agree with it strongly. If you think about it's pretty unfair to lose an award because you have to vote neutral. Don't worry Starry it's not your fault, I should've done a better job to enforce this rule. I'll add in the other nominees you told me about and any others that come to my attention.

Too long, didn't read? Your objections have all been overruled. Sorry for this inconvenience, I tried to be reasonable.