User blog comment:Zaffie/WFW AWARDS (the informal non-adminy version)/@comment-2143393-20130318013655

I think that you should be able to nominate your own stories, just so people don't lie to get their stories in. :(

I think that you should not be able to vote for your own stories, then everybody would vote for their own stories and we'd never get much of a real vote for which is the best, because of course you'd think yours is the best. (you wrote it!)

Detailed categories are definetley nessasary! It's really hard to pick from a huge group of fanfics, much easier to pick from a smaller group. (plus that means more winners :P Derp)

I think that each detailed category should have a winner, and then after they are voted on and the winners are chosen, the winners will go into a final round to vote for the best fanfic, the best songfic, best series, etc.

I think that a fanfic should be very close to done when it's entered, and by the date when the entries are due all the entries should be finished.

Entry period should be 3 weeks, just so people have enough time to finish their entries.

Voting period should be 3 weeks, so voters have enough time to read through all the stories.

Polls for each category. Makes things simpler. :)