And *poof*, a whole new pile of stupid awards appears

[jducoeur]

*Sigh*. I suppose I knew that the East would eventually follow so many other Kingdoms in adding Yet Another Freaking Layer of Awards. But man, I so don't approve -- with every passing year, the award system becomes simply an enormous list of merit badges. Their Majesties are good people, and well-intentioned, but IMO this is a significant mistake, that will do more harm than good.

OTOH, I suppose it's self-correcting: we're pretty much getting to the point where nobody has any ideas what the awards mean any more, so they're becoming irrelevant. (I mean, *I* can't remember a lot of them any more, and I'm a court junkie.) More and more people, far as I can tell, are coming to regard the award system as Just Plain Stupid, which does leave room to convince them to ignore the whole idiotic morass and concentrate on the game instead.

(Yes, I know -- I've lost this particular battle, and I have better things to do than beat the dead horse. But I'm going to allow myself one good grouse first...)

Comments

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

Is there at least an easily accessible cheat sheet somewhere? And/or could heralds be convinced that part of announcing an award is giving a ten-second explanation of what it IS, already?

[jducoeur]

There is -- I don't know the URL offhand, but it's been linked from the Gazette a couple of times. It's a neat, very large grid of all of the awards.

Of course, the fact that we *need* a grid of all the awards in order to keep track of them is appalling...

[matildalucet.livejournal.com]

I do not disagree.