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Originally posted by sextoyking
Princess,
I guess webinc.com wasn't worthy enough to be nominated??
hmmm....
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Well yeah they are good enough in my opinion. But we made a very strict rule that no HELMY employee was allowed to nominate a site nor was a HELMY site allowed to win. And webinc.com wasn't submitted to us either by their staff or by webmaster community
Nominees were accepted via the XBiz Awards site and only by this method. No sites were added that were not submitted via the site. Press Releases were emailed out and I even posted on a couple boards (GFY Included) about it with the hopes that everyone would go out and submit the sites that they thought were excellent or deserving.
I wanted this to be so that everyone could be involved. Both big names and smaller companies. Just because a company has a big name doesn't always mean they're better. You might have a company that's hardly heard about that's just kick ass, ya never know and vise versa.
As far as judges go, I wanted a wide variety there as well. Both big names in the business as well as some that you don't hear from to often. That way it'd be a more unbiased Judging process. No judge was allowed to vote in the specific category that they are directly involved or work in.
Given the over all picture, I think this has been one of the most fairly done Awards that there is.
