Ya Haqq!

so i have a solution. a very islamic one. in fact the fragrance of islam is very strong in this.

just give a bro a hug out of fellowship.

simple. no (well possibly different)coding headaches. a really big love effect.

So it is very cool.

Sorry, I’ll clarify further… for the past three years, this was the case… where the top five nominees were the ones chosen.

We realised this year that this system favoured only those who actively pursued nomination (and there was no way to contact every blog out there to make it fairer) rather than a being a quality contest (which required some judgement and expertise).

Late in the process this year we restricted nominees from being duplicated (resulting in the message you got) and were still overwhelmed with 300 unique nominees and one week to narrow it down (hence the delay). Chalk it up to growing pains. As of now we have reached last years two week voting total in two days.

For now we used a basket approach combining several factors (which we’ll discuss after the voting… what’s done is done and we don’t want to disrupt that). We are already working on improvements for next time.

There are two ways a contest like this can be done. We could simply choose the five nominees ourselves (the “authoritarian” model… whoever wants to do this themselves is welcome to have a go) or base it on popularity, in which case people could just send in their traffic logs or Technorati rankings and be done with it (the more controversial, high traffic sites would win this, trust us).

We are trying to find a fair middle ground. Unfortunately, this can’t be designed by a committee consisting all of cyberspace but, inshallah, we’ll be as transparent and forthcoming as possible. Please be patient with us.

jk,
zahed

I don’t a new award is a solution,perhaps having more members on on the decision making board can help solve issues here. More diversity in the board will make the awards more acceptable.