Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-5075791-20130930211124/@comment-3416945-20131003201251

Someone please explain to me how this is competitive. We can reduce competition fairly easily by disallowing previous winners on the poll (like we do with the Featured User poll), we can add more awards if necessary, etc. There are plenty of awards to be had, and it's not even that big of a deal. It just encourages you to work harder so that you'll earn some recognition for your work. You aren't competing for a cash prize, you aren't competing for your life, so don't complain about it. If you are envious of the winners, that's your problem because you should know that it's a meaningless award. We want to celebrate the work of the users here on the Sonic News Network and encourage more work to be done. We are not trying to provoke competition. Geez.