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elissarose · Joined: 16 Jun 2009 Posts: 40

I wish there was some standard genre thing out there somewhere. In the 90s people gave up on music genres and called everything "Alternative"

I think Senshuu is right!
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Kallisti · Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 709 Location: Der Interwebs

I'm for this on a general basis... when/if it is approved, I'd push for a limited number of categories, probably something below 10. I think the unlimited category field is a bad idea, just due to the fact that arguably every comic could eventually narrow itself down to such a small sub-sub-subset of categories that we'd have to give everyone an award.

An idea does occur to me - since this is the TWCL Award... we could always use the genre categories TWCL uses to define what awards we give. We might want to remove/combine a couple of them... but it's still a starting point. They (for those who don't venture much off the forum) are:

Fantasy, Furry, Gaming, Geeky, Manga, Mature, Quirky, Sci-Fi, Weird, Workplace, Genre-less

I know that this isn't the time or place to debate *which* categories we do, I'm just throwing this out as a possible comprimise as an idea for those deciding on whether they're for this or not.
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NekoMusume · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

I do feel that this would be most unmanageable and if one were to have this genre divided system, how many and what ones?

I mean, if we have too many the whole idea becomes a unmanageable and if we have to little, you will have someone arguing that they have been left out.

elissarose · Joined: 16 Jun 2009 Posts: 40

On the other hand, this being what it is, there is certain to be someone who feels they've been left out anyway.
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jdalton · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:42 am Post subject:

elissarose wrote:

On the other hand, this being what it is, there is certain to be someone who feels they've been left out anyway.

True, but I think with the addition of some genre categories more people will feel left in. As a suggested rule (however many genres, if any, are decided on), you could say that a given comic cannot be eligible in two genre categories. Someone has to pick one or the other.
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