petroleumjelly wrote:And I don't see how you can claim "self-noms are frowned upon" while holding that judges shouldn't consider if it was a self-nom or not. If judges don't care, then there is no disincentive to whoring your own games. And if that is the case, this thread could fill up very quickly with people nominating themselves.Adel wrote:self noms are frowned upon. Gimbo [Mason] and skitzer [Townie] were both in the team that won Mini 608.
I'm sure you guys are proud of your win, but remember that a game ends almost every single here.
your town happened to have cop+doc+masons+vig vs. godfather+RB+goon vs SK which is totally balanced in the town's favor.
this was not the case when we were judging the scummies last year. Perhaps this year's judges have adopted it, but I think that peer pressure is all the disincentive needed. When someone self-noms either they are a newer player who just doesn't know better, or an attention whore (like me), or they are an experienced player that has a damn good reason for pointing it out. The newer players probably only need a polite explanation that self-noms are frowned upon, there isn't anything you can do about attention whores, and self-noms by experienced players stand a good chance of being justified.petroleumjelly wrote:I would like to point out that although self-nominations and posturing for people to nominate/second your works are technically "allowed", they are still noted by the judges and it is apoint against you
Notice that the self nomination thread isn't exactly filling up with self-noms.