Hey, anyone catch the explosion on EN World over the Electronic Product comentary? I missed it myself and don't see it now, but I want to know about it. If someone was screaming that my product sucked or something, that's good publicity.
That was most likely me
I basically got upset over the fact that Fanpro was allowed to submit an entire product line as a single product (when all of the wording suggests that such was not allowed), and that the judges decided to allow it (all perfectly legal). My big problem came because they neglected to inform anybody at all about it (i.e. the blog of the judge saying that you should have entered the whole line - something you couldn't do because you didn't know you could because they never informed you), and because it also highlighted that the rules can be changed, during the judging processes without entrants being told.
During the course of the dust-up, I got banned from over there because the site owner took umbrage at my saying the following in one post:
5) I have the utmost respect and admiration for the folks who run the ENnies and those who have been judges, up to and including last year's judges. They are individuals of honor and integrity. The sole exception here is Morrus. While I still believe that he is a man of integrity, he has made a number of personal attacks, including some line (I have been told, I was banned when I was told about it, and I am not going to bother trying to find it) where he mentions something about my wife. To me, that (making ANY sort of comment about my family) loses him the "honorable" portion of the description, but I still do not doubt his integrity.
He apparently considered that direct insult to him. The other reason I was given for being banned was because I posted an email from the girl in charge of the ENnies (where she was turning down ICE's attempts to get information so we could make a serious proposal for sponsoring them. Please note that posting email one receives is not (or at least was not) mentioned as being against the EN World rules at all.
The actual thread is here -- http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=201490
Anyways, I have promised Bruce that I would not waste my time on trying to improve the ENnies anymore. So, I will not be discussing this further, and I would appreciate it if others did not discuss it on the ICE forums either.