We considered doing this, but eventually decided it felt wrong for the spirit of the event.
We’ve had 573 posts nominated so far, so people are clearly finding lots of content they liked. If none of the Forum’s users think to nominate a given Prize winner, that seems to indicate it wasn’t especially impactful after the fact, and thus shouldn’t be automatically nominated.
Today’s the last day of the Nominations Phase!
Suggestion/request: all past Forum Prize winners should be automatically nominated.
We considered doing this, but eventually decided it felt wrong for the spirit of the event.
We’ve had 573 posts nominated so far, so people are clearly finding lots of content they liked. If none of the Forum’s users think to nominate a given Prize winner, that seems to indicate it wasn’t especially impactful after the fact, and thus shouldn’t be automatically nominated.