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Opening Up Nominations for the 2024 Inaugural Lemmy Anime Awards [2024, Week 50] (ani.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by wjs018@ani.social to c/anime@ani.social

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Hey everybody! A couple days ago, @NineSwords@ani.social reached out to me with an idea. Why don't we try to set up some year-end awards for the communities we moderate? Well, a bit of back and forth, and today, I am glad to announce that we have opened nominations for the 2024 Lemmy Anime Awards. The nomination round will remain open until I post next week's general discussion thread (usually late Sunday/early Monday US time). Note that there are partner awards for the manga and light novel communities as well.

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[–] wjs018@ani.social 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hey all! Welcome to my meta comment about the year-end awards. I am going to try to pre-emptively answer some questions you may have:

Are the awards just for anime?

No! There are three different awards: anime, manga, and light novels. Check out each one here:

What counts as a 2024 anime?

I am taking a broad view of 2024 anime. Basically, if it broadcast in the calendar year of 2024, it is fair game. That means that stuff that ran into 2024 from Fall 2023 is ok (Frieren, Apothecary, etc.). Also, stuff that will continue on into 2025 is ok (Orb, Re:Zero, etc.). The one exception to that would be OP/ED. So, Frieren OP1, which only aired in 2023, would not be eligible, but Frieren OP2 would be.

Who chose these categories and why is my favorite category missing?

Well, like I wrote up top, this all came together pretty quick. So, I did my best to come up with a good sprinkling of categories that covers a broad range, but not so many categories that it is annoying to actually submit votes for all those things.

Please let me know if you don't like some stuff or want changes. It's kind of too late for this year, but rest assured that I will incorporate feedback for the future.

What is this survey site? It looks super sketchy...

I am hosting it! It is a dockerized instance of LimeSurvey (thanks martialblog for creating a docker image). I initially ran into problems hosting this on my VPS that I use for things (like rikka), because this service takes a ton of memory. So, this is now running on my homeserver, literally in my office, right next to my desk.

Here is a fun little peek into how figuring out setting up the site went:

As for privacy/security, I have all the surveys configured to not record IP numbers or other identifying information. I know you can only take my word for it, but I hope that I have earned at least a little trust at this point running this community.

One thing to note for the voting round is that the survey will place a cookie into the browser to try to prevent voting multiple times (feel free to do multiple rounds of nomination). Frankly, this is the flimsiest of defenses because private browsing easily circumvents it, but that is the extent to which this site should mess with your browser.

Nominations...but what about the voting?

Voting comes next! The nomination window will be open for one week (week 50). Then, week 51, the nomination submissions will be sorted through by NineSwords and I for our respective communities. Then, the voting period will be over the course of week 52, the final week of the year. Winners, should everything go as planned, will be announced on the 31st of December.

For nerds that care a lot about voting methodologies...

I am right there with you. For the voting round of these awards, in each category, you will be able to rank-order the nominees in the order you want. Then, at the close of the voting, a ranked-choice election will take place. I haven't written the code yet, but I plan on using PyRankVote to run the election using the Instant Runoff Vote (IRV) method since it is just single winner elections.

The other option in consideration right now is STAR voting. Basically, you would be able to assign each nominee a score from 0-5 where 5 means it is most deserving of winning (non-exclusive, meaning you can give multiple nominees a score of 5). Then, I would use the starvote python package to process the data and determine the winner.

Awards!?! What are we, Buzzfeed? Reddit? I hate this!

First, chill...but I get it. I thought this would be a fun community thing, but if the community hates it, then we won't do it again. Simple as that. Do please let me know. I hope that I have proven by this point a willingness to incorporate community feedback, even when it is critical.

[–] Endmaker@ani.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Regarding voting methodology, can we please use STAR voting instead? I like the acronym.

[–] wjs018@ani.social 3 points 1 week ago

I'll take a look at this. From some initial reading and poking around the survey software, I think I can create the questions for this (0-5 scale) and the methodology seems nice. I also found the starvote python package that I could use to process the ballots. It might come down to which of the methods are easier to wrangle the data into shape. The exported csv from the survey software is a bit messy, so if one of them is easier to bash the data into shape, then that will probably be the winner.