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You can't just do something like this on 1 person's hunch. I know we get hundreds of suggestions from well meaning folks every year about what we should do to change our awards. They have good intentions, but the ideas are flawed most of the time and they just don't get it no matter how much you try and explain it. What you are suggestion is a non starter. I understand where you are coming from, but it's quite impractical and would fail even if tried. You can only be so demanding over masses of people for them to do something. It's really tough. If you send a request to people to do something, you're doing VERY well if you get single digit responses. (Most people with massive lists like Ourstage has now are happy with 1-2% response). And if you try to apply the info you learn from that small percentage and assume it applies to the larger numbers, you're making a grave mistake. It doesn't. People willing to participate and be responsive to a given request do NOT represent the average. It's a very skewed number that has little to do with how the other 90+ percent think or act. More damage than usefulness would occur in even spending the time to try. Unless you can get a 100% and ACCURATE response, then anything you do based on those results is flawed and likely wrong.

Brian