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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 182109" data-attributes="member: 102">That tells us whose standard, but not what standard how well something is crafted gets decided.I went to the website to find out if they stated what the criteria is for judging the winners, and it only said "Voters choose the entries they feel exemplify excellence in their categories." Voting is based on what one "feels is excellent" is pretty vague, much more vague than what one "thinks is excellent." One is the result of emotion and the other the result of thought. There's still the matter of criteria. Without a set of criteria by which the contestants or nominees are scored, it's still a popularity contest - the popularity of a relatively small group of people. I think it's nice to be recognized and appreciated by one's peers, but it's still a popularity contest - just one of a select group of people.</blockquote>