Pwolf wrote:If my video doesn't immediately grab the attention of someone and they decide to skip the rest of it, that's my fault and that's a risk I've accepted.
While I think it is ideal to watch each video in it's entirety while judging my qualm is more for those who simply noticed the 'L' and 'H' prefixes and skipped them all together. If you start watching and something appears that is too shocking or uncomfortable for you at least you tried and gave the video a shot before voting against it, the way it seems though is people just saw a certain subject matter and dismissed it completely without even bothering to play them. If you were an IC judge and only watched video A before declaring it the winner when there was nothing technically wrong with video B as it had followed all the rules the judges had agreed upon before deciding to judge in the first place it would be completely wrong to be biased.
I'm not trying to say people don't do it, or people shouldn't think that some may pass on it. It's not awa's fault nor that of any other convention that uses audience voting, but I disagree with the mentality that it is acceptable to do when acting as a judge. Does it happen? Yes. Should it happen? No. Yet people keep using the fact that it does happen to justify that it is acceptable.
If awa would like to change it's rules to exclude adult content than that is it's choice but as it is now it does accept such content and if you are unwilling to attempt to judge the contest to the best of your ability in it's entirety you should skip judging all together. This being a contest where all the entries are lumped in together you can't pick the best from the group when you have not seen the whole group. Just because it does happen doesn't mean it should, or that people should be trying to justify biased judging just because it happens.
Vlad wrote:Actually, I starting to really not like Pro... It' s just not fun anymore bacuse of this thread
I plan on this being my last post on the subject myself but I actually couldn't disagree with you more. I thought the past few pages were a decent, well mannered debate about the subject for the most part. I actually find it really nice to see that not just on the internet, but even on the org people are still able to talk with intelligence and tact while debating opposite sites of an argument instead of it boiling down to. "No
your mother can go screw
herself!". And possibly since Kholoras posted earlier about sharing this thread with the other awa coordinators something can be imposed, be it separating the adult content to it's own contest or someones above suggestion of a signed specifically stated requirement for the judges to watch all the entries that will help to clear this problem up in the future and make mostly every body happy.