[General Topics] quicksite:
Adding to categories; revising; any further feedback?

Well, sorta, simply because I'm taking the bull by the horns. But to be very clear, if that is the perception had by all, this will not be good. I think to make this successful in a way that truly honors ingenuity and thought-process and code efficiency, and functional inventiveness, and all the other factors that come together to make an app or ROM or successful with great usability -- such that people love to use it -- then I want ( & need) enough buy-in.

I am doing this aggressively only in the sense of time. Everything is up for alternate suggestions, or additions. Which is why when you said what you said, I immediately grokked to what I thought you meant. But I wasn't sure, since there was a smiley face there -- and it's impossible to read between the lines in email/posts, esp when you don't have a lot of familiarity with each other.

So, I'm going to add that as a Category: Please write out the language you would use to describe that category clearly and succinctly.

All of this is less than a day old, and I view what I've presented as what I think of as a pretty good first draft. But I am specifically asking for this kind of feedback and additions, because (a) no way I can cover the ground of the entire site thru just one lens, and (b) Though, yes, I a leading a charge, these "Devvies" will only be meaningful if there is enough buy in that I've got a decent enough structure to make this work.

I known noonksi voted he doesn't think the methodology or process is best thought out. I was going to write him by PM to please comment further... but I was hoping he would comment here.

My overarching macro process view is: people often think better when they are responding TO something presented, critiquing and adding, vs starting from an open page and open ended question of "what should we do here guys?"

In vijay's thread, for example, I understood that there was a completely different apparatus proposed, whereby nominations are made by the mods, and there would need to be multiple rounds of studying other award processes like Smartphone awards, etc. That is totally valid. But it's also not at all what I see THIS VERSION of some recognition awards. For me, this is peer-to-peer, vs a body of people with a sense of stature or admin level propogating the categories and nominees.

But the XDA site owners may feel differently -- and may want to establish their own official site awards. And if so, they should. Nothing I am doing here is intended to intervene in that hierarchy of site owners/leaders.

And, for example, if someone has an issue with attaching XDA to the awards, then it can be dropped. I am just trying to be as clear as possible that though I have come out the gate fast with this, it's been percolating for months, and to me it is worth doing, and I coined a term and like it.

So it's my hope that there will be more posts, as needed, that add something or clarify any glaring mistakes or unintended exclusions.

On that note, a suggestion was made upthread to merge 2 of the proposed categories I posted -- to merge Utilities with Widgets.

I personally think they should be differentiated, but i understand the suggestion as being born out of "are there really enough widgets out there to justify voting on outstanding achievement in...?" I think yes. I would specifically like to hear more replies on this. thank you