Thank-you for responding to my comment/questions. I was a little taken aback in your response, as I felt there was a lot more anger enclosed, and less professionalism. I am simply a reader, who has voted faithfully. Your comment suggested that there were covers that should have been gone already, and some that should still be in the competition. My findings are not the same as yours. Some of the covers that were saved, I have not liked from the beginning, and was so glad they were going to finally be eliminated. Whereas, there are covers still in the competition, that I feel are distasteful.
So, I am willing to draw a truce. And simply comment, everybody has their own opinion. If you want us non-writers, who faithfully purchase these books, to vote on covers, then it should stay that way. If you want a jury to select what stays, and what goes, then, don't have us vote.
My "anger" (even if anger is maybe a too strong feeling) is due to the fact that I would like for the non-writers to vote for the cover artists and not for the authors. And I'd like for people to vote only one time. I have no way to check if an account was opended by the same person to vote more than one time, but I have the strong feeling (due to the affluence of voting just at the right time to "save" a cover only for one/two votes) that a good % of voting have arrived in that way. More than one time I kindly asked people to be fair, to not doing strange "games", but that didn't happen, and so I had to take a decision: an external jury, without connection to authors or artists, but with skills to judge, was the less dramatic choice (the other choice was to close the contest).
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Re: NOT FAIR IN RAINBOW AWARDS...
So, I am willing to draw a truce. And simply comment, everybody has their own opinion. If you want us non-writers, who faithfully purchase these books, to vote on covers, then it should stay that way. If you want a jury to select what stays, and what goes, then, don't have us vote.
Re: NOT FAIR IN RAINBOW AWARDS...
More than one time I kindly asked people to be fair, to not doing strange "games", but that didn't happen, and so I had to take a decision: an external jury, without connection to authors or artists, but with skills to judge, was the less dramatic choice (the other choice was to close the contest).