*The awards committee is on crack part 2

[infinitempg]

You realize anyone watching the stream for the first time, did not equate the tiny writing that said "soandso also got votes" to them being nominated right?  We saw 3 names that stood out, any reasonable person would think those werre the nominees and only the nominees.  It's like that for EVERY award show ever.

Hi yes this is a valid criticism. The reason this is that way is because I have the process automated in Photoshop and Google Sheets - and it is simply harder and less pleasant looking to have more than 3 listed as the original nominees. If you look back at some past awards shows you'll see that it gets very cluttered and difficult to read in the bottom bar when there are more than 3.

What I have noticed in the seasons since that change is a large amount of, let's say disdain over people's names not being listed - and I do think that there is validity to it. In S18's Award Show, there was a lot of vitriol over IsaStarcrossed not being listed as a nominee for Most Dedicated Member, and so I added in the "Also received votes" section.

There's been other situations (not just this one) where that compromise has caused confusion and upset users - so it's become quite clear to me that I either need to go back to manually setting up each slide in the awards show or figuring out a way to professionally list up to 5 nominees for each award that can remain automated. It may require a complete overhaul of the way I have the awards shows set up, but hopefully it will be worth the time put in. I already have some ideas as to how to do it - though of course implementation doesn't always match visualization.

I will put in those hours during the in-between of the past awards show and the next one and hopefully the resulting product will be better for all viewers.