The most tragic part of this? While Kyell Gold withdrew himself to try and bring legitimacy to the awards, to quell all these nay-sayers that it was not his awards, to try and improve Ursa's legitimacy to the fandom. The effect seems to have been the opposite.
There were less voters this year than two years prior, and no doubt a good deal of that 37.5% of less voters was because of Kyell Gold's absence. At this point I think it's clear. If Kyell does care for the Ursas I think he should stay in them and to hell with the haters, if they hate him so much they should come in and vote for the best work that isn't his. At least then, hey we got more voters... they may be voting for the 'wrong reasons' but what popular voting scheme (or even 'elitist' voting scheme) doesn't have that?
The most tragic part of this? While Kyell Gold withdrew himself to try and bring legitimacy to the awards, to quell all these nay-sayers that it was not his awards, to try and improve Ursa's legitimacy to the fandom. The effect seems to have been the opposite.
There were less voters this year than two years prior, and no doubt a good deal of that 37.5% of less voters was because of Kyell Gold's absence. At this point I think it's clear. If Kyell does care for the Ursas I think he should stay in them and to hell with the haters, if they hate him so much they should come in and vote for the best work that isn't his. At least then, hey we got more voters... they may be voting for the 'wrong reasons' but what popular voting scheme (or even 'elitist' voting scheme) doesn't have that?