User blog comment:Darkest Shadow/SFW Summer Awards 2018/@comment-1942179-20180913035124/@comment-1942179-20180915041950

I doubt making it into an annual event would help much of anything. We used to have one for every season, but we had to cut it down to two per year due to the same problems. (I don't think we ever once finished the autumn awards.)

If we split it up into different areas in the critique board, well, somehow I feel like that's not gonna do a whole lot. For one, no one ever looks at the wiki forum. Two, no one ever gives critiques in the critique board. And three, I can't help but feel it'd sort of be redundant with the whole featured article system we've got down.

It's not impossible to organize something like that though, but I think it'd be better off in the contests board. An idea is that we could maybe do a few categories each month of the season. I.e Best Character in June, Best Hero/Villain in July, and Best Design in August. Something to that extent. Then we'd have other misc. categories show up for three months of the winter.

Note that for this to work nominations would have to be done in advance. I.e nominations for Best Character would run through May, and Best Hero/Villain through June while Best Character is in the voting phase.

That's my idea. Cutting the workload down and kinda spreading it out to work a bit at a time, instead of handing everyone a huge platter all at once and give them forever to finish it would probably have a more positive effect.