A4U Awards 2009 - Stop Begging!!!

There has been alot of buzz this past week about the next A4U awards. The Categories can be found here.

Now I personally think the awards are a great way of recognising the hard work and dedication each individual member of the affiliate marketing community put in to our industry. It is also a chance to get together (in a less grubby form) and have a good knees up. Last year we even made the telly!

What I don't like about the awards are the beggers, the ones who are so desperate to win an award they bombard msn, facebook and the forum itself with begging pleas of why they should be voted for. To be fair, I understand why, an award is recognition from all your peers for you exceptional work throughout the year.

By begging you are going to create the following;
a) you are going to really piss people off. Me for one. The more you beg me, the more I think you have too much time on your hands for begging, and the more annoyed I get.

b) you dilute the others. You may think this is a good thing, I see this as unfair. There are people in the industry who work incredibly hard everyday, but choose not to brag about it. Instead they remain modest and get on with their work. By diluting everyone available to vote for you, you are blocking people who *actually* deserve the award. Don't worry though, your time may come.

What I would like to see is a ban on begging. Although this cannot be policed on msn or email or phone calls, I would like to see the A4U forum owner and moderators put rules in place to stop the bullying tactics and begging and bribery which is sure to go on the closer we get to the awards.

Let's make the awards truly anonymous and let the true stars shine though...