Welcome to today's Daily kOSCARs™diary.
This is the second diary in a potential series.
The 1st can be found here, wherein I introduced the concept:
if there is so much hullabaloo about the things people perceive to be the worst, why not also give props to the best?
My idea is to have several diaries to determine the categories and nominees, culminating with an awards diary around the end of the month of February.
The voting system I devised resulted in (38 yea/ 7 nay). Why I didn't just do a regular poll then kinda puzzles me, which is why I've posted one in this diary. If the results come in anywhere close to 50/50, I'm not going ahead with it. Someone else could "steal" the idea, I suppose, but it won't be my "fault" at that point.
:-p
Below the fold is a discussion about what categories would be voted upon.
I'm hoping to keep the list somewhat brief (not much over a dozen) if at all possible. If there is a groundswell of interest in a large number (closer to 20), then I will expect others to step up to write several of the nominating and voting diaries, because at one per day, I sure as heck can't handle even half that volume.
As it is, I would love a cohort or two if anyone who likes the idea would to volunteer in the comments.
My initial pitch included the following categories.
Best Snark Diary
Best Front Page Editor
Best New Front Page Editor Featured Writer
Favorite Commenter
Comment of the Year
Best Action Diary
Diarist of the Year
&
Diary of the Year
In the comments, we also got lots of good suggestions, such as the following:
from plf515-
Best diary series
Best non-political diary
Best candidate diary
Best diary by an elected official
from mamabigdog-
Best "good works" diary - This would be for efforts like Shelter Boxes, or other disaster relief, or for the CA wildfires diaries, or the healing quilt diaries.
Including all the ideas posed by myself and others, we're at exactly a dozen (or baker's dozen) by my count.
Do we feel satisfied by this list?
Anything listed above we should omit?
Anything not listed above we should include?
The sooner we get the categories fixed we can being the nominations.
As this will be a academy group effort, I welcome, nay, require your ideas
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