Here is some, what I believe, constructive criticism for next years SA Blog Awards. It seems I totally messed it up this year! But try reading the rules through beer goggles and you will see my predicament. You will see Cape Town’s predicament!
Anyway, here are my suggestions:
Make a clear nomination closure:
This year, the front page of the website mentioned that nominations and voting run from the 11th of February until the 14th of March. Most people scroll over this quickly and assume nominations close on the 14th of March. There did seem to be lots of confusion this year and so the nominations were extended for a further 3 days.
Make the rules CLEAR
According to the rules, you cannot nominate just one blog, but you need to nominate at least three. I read these rules quite late. The problem here is you go onto a blog, there is a widget that says “Nominate me”, you click it, fill in the form and therefore only nominate that one blog. Voters don’t read these rules, they just see these widgets on their favourite blogs and vote.
It’s like electronics. Guys especially battle with this and never read the instructions. So in something like the blog awards, which are more of a fun thing, I don’t think voters should have to actually have to read over the rules, because it’s boring to them. If they only want to vote for one blog, then they should be allowed to. However, upon further investigation it seems that you don’t have to nominate three blogs, but you can nominate one blog but then it has to be nominated in at least three categories.
The rules are just confusing and not clearly set out. They should be as simple to read and understand as possible because voters don’t really care about rules. They want their favourite blogs to win. They just want to vote and not have to read rules they don’t care about.
People in cities like Cape Town also don’t have time to read the rules. There are other things besides “rules” and “work” that keep us occupied. Things like beaches, mountains, beautiful clubs, beautiful people, cocktails at the beach, sleeping, partying etc etc. I think you get the picture.
I also think that not many people actually know how to read. I just picture read. Hell, I don’t even write for this website! I think I have a grade 4 to my name. Awesome!
Ok that’s all I have to say really. It’s pretty boring but it’s part of my life!
By the way how was your weekend?
As you can see ours was fairly average:
Jerry D happened to get caught up behind the decks in The Bosch sometime in the last week. I can’t remember. Every day seems like the weekend. He was accompanied by Nick E Louder and Uncle Jager. What RAD company!
There is a picture of me but I know some kids read this website so…
Women, drinks, music.
And that’s just a small celebration…and we don’t even know if we are nominated for an award yet. Imagine how mental we will go if we DO get nominated. Imagine how mental we will go if we DON’T get nominated! All of this excites me no end!
I’m sure it excites you as well.
Yes it does.
Hey you! Crazy person!
Put that whip down!
What?
Stop frowing me wif cous cous!
Ooooh someone is in BIG trouble. Is that lace you’re wearing?
Red lace.
God you’re beautiful.
Sean Lloyd
Editor
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