On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:26:31 -0400, Lizsue <lizsue@MIT.EDU> wrote:

How about more awards?  new-to-R-1/2 newbie and new newbie?  That way 
Bob doesn't get an unfair advantage for being famous-at-something-else 
because he can't compete with the new newbies, the same way the famous-at-R-
-1/2 authors can compete with him.

Hmm... maybe. Getting more and more complicated here...

Also, maybe we need to draw a line between new-to-raac newbie and new 
newbie.  If I write a whole bunch of fanfics and wait until the last minute 
to post them, I shouldn't count as a newbie the way someone who just wrote 
and posted her first-ever fanfic is, since the idea is to recognize good-
-but-inexperienced authors.

Maybe so, but this seems utterly unenforceable. If someone has written a
bunch of previous fanfics but not posted them publically, who's to even
know?

That could happen by accident, though - an raac reader might think McKinley 
and Jeff are different people.  But that's so Jeff => Rev.#9 won't happen on 
search engines, instead of cheating at polls.  If the referees decide who's 
new and who isn't instead of a whole bunch of voters ("here's a list of 
eligible newbies"), it probably won't happen though.

Right, and that's the way it would surely end up being done.

Gary Kleppe
kleppe@execpc.com, Home page http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe
My fanfics and the FFML map are on my comics/manga page,
       http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics