Dillinger
Guerrilla Ontologist
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Lifetime Achievement Award
With all the bruhaha over the Literotica Awards I was thinking about other type of awards (oscars, tonys, nobel prizes) and an idea occured to me. Something along the lines of a Lifetime Achievement Award.
How about recognizing those author's who have submitted what amounts to an oeuvre? (Webster Dictionary - "a substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or a composer").
There are some authors here who have been incredibly prolific. And I'm not suggesting that we merely acknowledge or award quantity BUT the combination of quantity and quality.
English Bob has currently has over 100 stories posted (and is kicking my butt in the awards voting), Patrick has almost 80 stories, Tawny T almost 50. I'm sure there are plenty of others (I'm not going to go count every one of them!). By comparison I've only got 13 stories and 3 poems (so far).
Here's my suggestion:
Break it down into categories:
21 - 50 Stories
51 - 80 Stories
81+ stories
(Or - any breakdown that Laurel considers reasonable.)
Anyone who's got more than 300 stories posted should immediately be committed to an insane asylum.
At the end of each year, go into the database - filter by number of stories and author. The Lifetime achievement award goes to the author in each category (21-50. 51-80, 81+) whose voting average (the ranking of each of their stories averaged together) is the highest.
All stories from the beginning of time (i.e. - from when Lit opened) are eligible and remain eligible each year (this is a LIFETIME achievement award after all). However - once you have won in any of these categories you are no longer eligible for that category in following years. If you happen to win, for example, the award in the 21 - 50 category you can't win in that category again BUT if you post enough stories to make it into the next level category you are eligible in that new category.
My apologies to those who have already posted enough stories to no longer qualify for the first two categories - but you've got to draw a line and start somewhere.
Questions? Comments? Flames?
Laurel?
[Edited by Dillinger on 02-28-2001 at 10:52 AM]
With all the bruhaha over the Literotica Awards I was thinking about other type of awards (oscars, tonys, nobel prizes) and an idea occured to me. Something along the lines of a Lifetime Achievement Award.
How about recognizing those author's who have submitted what amounts to an oeuvre? (Webster Dictionary - "a substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or a composer").
There are some authors here who have been incredibly prolific. And I'm not suggesting that we merely acknowledge or award quantity BUT the combination of quantity and quality.
English Bob has currently has over 100 stories posted (and is kicking my butt in the awards voting), Patrick has almost 80 stories, Tawny T almost 50. I'm sure there are plenty of others (I'm not going to go count every one of them!). By comparison I've only got 13 stories and 3 poems (so far).
Here's my suggestion:
Break it down into categories:
21 - 50 Stories
51 - 80 Stories
81+ stories
(Or - any breakdown that Laurel considers reasonable.)
Anyone who's got more than 300 stories posted should immediately be committed to an insane asylum.
At the end of each year, go into the database - filter by number of stories and author. The Lifetime achievement award goes to the author in each category (21-50. 51-80, 81+) whose voting average (the ranking of each of their stories averaged together) is the highest.
All stories from the beginning of time (i.e. - from when Lit opened) are eligible and remain eligible each year (this is a LIFETIME achievement award after all). However - once you have won in any of these categories you are no longer eligible for that category in following years. If you happen to win, for example, the award in the 21 - 50 category you can't win in that category again BUT if you post enough stories to make it into the next level category you are eligible in that new category.
My apologies to those who have already posted enough stories to no longer qualify for the first two categories - but you've got to draw a line and start somewhere.
Questions? Comments? Flames?
Laurel?
[Edited by Dillinger on 02-28-2001 at 10:52 AM]
