Designer Toy Awards are back & voting is openWe're nominated again & now we're on the DTA Nomination Committee
The public nominations closed, and the public voting begins for the 2013 Designer Toy Awards presented by Clutter. Like I mentioned in a previous post we were included in the 'Best Blog' category, but we need your votes until July 1st to make the final nominations that everyone will then vote on from July 23rd through September 1st. A surprise twist to this years DTA's is that we've been asked to join the DTA nomination committee and have a vote on some of the categories and pick finalists. We really appreciate that the folks over at Clutter appreciate our input and we'll do our best to be as objective as possible.
On a side note, since we don't know what categories we'll be voting on it would probably be best for any nominee in every category to start sending bribes our way ... just to be sure.
With all that out of the way I'd like to offer my own feedback on this years process, and hopefully we can get a good dialog going with you guys to help make next years even better.
Pro's
- Nominations being in the 2012 Calendar year, was way to confusing last year.
- Combining 'Best Licensed' and 'Best Toy from a Comic' into 'Best Media Tie-In'.
- Addition of 'Best Plush'.
- Some of the finalists for categories are chosen by the DTA Board. Not sure if this was in place last year, but some nominees might not have a strong following to vote for them but have amazing pieces that should be in consideration.
- I love the Lucky Bags, and exclusive customs they have on tap.
- The ceremony was amazing last year, and everyone had a blast. Got to chat and get crazy with a variety of fun people.
Con's
- To much time dedicated to voting. I understand Clutter wanting to maximize the amount of traffic they get and social mentions, but at a certain point it's a bit much. A six week voting window to narrow down finalists, then another six week window of voting to pick finalists. That's tweleve weeks of total voting with a three week window in between. Maybe a two & four week period for voting next year?
- Make the images on the nominees clickable! Every time I mouse over to click on a nominee to vote for the hover of the larger image blocks the 'Cast Your Vote' button then I have to sneak in to click it. Just make the image clickable. :)
Would love to hear any feedback you guys have.
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I said something like this on Facebook:
I think that they should try and model it more after other arts-related awards because the "nominations" are a bit out of control and some don't make sense. Public contribution should be minimal - have the Fan Favorite Award, and the rest is decided by the Board. Artists and the public can privately submit works and artists for the Board's consideration. I know they try and get the public very involved and voting multiple times because they want more exposure, but it shouldn't be about that. There's also some growing pains I think with the change in becoming calendar year based in terms of works considered -there are pieces that were already up for awards last year again up this year. There are also some people nominated under Best Customizer who don't really customize much - they produce their own pieces. To me, a customizer takes an existing figure and customizes it. A couple are big names who will take votes away from actual customizers.
almost 11 years ago · Comment ·
But I think instead of having everyone submit "nominations" they should be submitted to the board "for their consideration." Then a short list of nominations. Then winners. 50 nominations or whatever is ridiculous, and it's all just done for promotion. Now Clutter/DTA is everywhere because all the "nominees" are plugging themselves like crazy. It makes it less meaningful when anyone can be a nominee just by Joe Shmoe submitting it.
almost 11 years ago · Comment ·
nicedream In all seriousness, for the legitimacy of the awards (and I think the awards are great for the scene) they should at least change the name of the huge list of people/companies/blogs etc to "For Consideration" instead of "nominees" if it's going to remain public. Then the short lists can be nominees. Just my opinion, since you asked. :) almost 11 years ago
To nicedream's and mgon's points ... I really believe the public nomination piece of this process is very important to make sure artists that some DTA 'voters' might not know about. Once public nominations are closed I do think it should just be up to whomever Clutter delgates to help them chose winners. Personally I would much rather win an award based on the opinions of my peers rather than who's fans remember to vote every 24 hours.
almost 11 years ago · Comment ·
The voting pieriod is definitely too long! Waaay overkill. The hover-image does get in the way, and needs to go. I also think you should only be able to vote once per category, 'cause the way voting is set up now, whoever has the biggest fan base is going to win, 'cause all they need is just one vote, one time, to win. Most voters are not going to vote every 24 hours; that's way too much work. I had to set up 19 links with the name of who I'm voting for so that I could vote every 24 hours and remember who the heck I'm voting for in each category. That's just way too much. Better organization and rules are needed to give everybody a fair chance at winning.
almost 11 years ago · Comment ·
Promote your new release, event & more to 29,000+ people each month.
Unlimited impressions starting at a rate of .38¢ per 1,000.
Mgon Yes! Yes! Well said! almost 11 years ago