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Better than the ABA IMO.

@Omo: Orly? I found it by typing in ‘anime blogging’ into Google Image search – It’s one of the top results I think. And god bless the CC. Yet again it saves me from molestation-related blackmail.

Damn you Creative Commons! Damn you! If not for that, I was going to say that I will license you the use of that picture if you go and molest Lastarial at Makoto Shinkai’s screening of 5cm in Southbank.

Alas. And if for what ills the anime blog awards bring, I welcome them with my TNT-We-Know-Drama LulzWagon in one hand and URLs to new sites in my rss reader in the other. I must say there is just not enough drama! I applaud your attempt to start some right here.

(One of these days I’ll try going on a Stats Fast, and stay away from my counter for a month, or something.)

As others have said, those blogs have to be doing something right to have that much of an impact on fellow bloggers (including myself), especially when a lot of the “popular” blogs nominated don’t really seem to care about the awards. I certainly don’t see any serious bargaining or pleading for nominations from these blogs, nor do I feel that people are voting these blogs out of an obligation, for a favor, or for recognition, and that’s great.

I don’t see why that’s so much of a problem. I trust that whatever the vote was for someone, that it came from them using good judgment on it. :3

the little trees are still in the shadow of the larger ones which meant there were no real surprises.

I wonder what people kept expecting to see or were hoping to occur when the actual voting occured based on how much complaints and critiques there are about the “It’s just a popularity contest” argument and not, and it pisses me off because I feel people are pushing more importance on that final result than just the idea of the nominations (and it seems like both the critiques. It’s why I get annoyed when people call it a “circlejerk” or a “cult” as well, but that’s probably because of how I see things. I figured the nominations were the important thing here, not the final process, because those were what were supposed to get people to check out blogs that they haven’t known before. I also would expect people to tend to prefer a blog that they’ve known for a while compared to ones that they’ve just met to, since that also seems to be how things work. Does that make sense? :/

But I feel that if this occurs another time, the fact that people should know more blogs than before would help to make things closer, if that’s what people want. Me? I just want to expand my knowledge of the community, and I felt that the nominating process was a great way to do that. And I really don’t think quantifying things hurt that much anyway, since though it may be statisically the majority of what people think is the best, as long as you have your own views, it should be all good for you. I think people might be overstating the importance of the final vote and downplaying the importance of the nomination process, but that might just be me. And that’s probably the grumpiest you’ll get me to be in a comment or post. :(

The sad thing is, despite everyone’s best efforts, this did still turn out to be a popularity contest between the names and faces we’re already familiar with – the little trees are still in the shadow of the larger ones which meant there were no real surprises.

The fact that the ABA was even the mixed success it was proves that we have a geat sense of community to begin with IMO.