Ursa Major Awards nominations open

[Tony Greyfox]

The 2009 Ursa Major Awards are open for nominations, with an interesting twist. There's been quite a lot of discussion about certain works being nominated and vote-stacking by creators with large fanbases, and apparently the committee that runs the awards has made a change: they'll disallow entries deemed "obscene, libelous, or otherwise detrimental to the integrity and good standing of the Ursa Major Awards and the anthropomorphics fandom that those awards represent. For example: Works of a predominantly sexual nature, or which include explicit sexual situations involving characters which may be underage or non-anthropomorphic animals."

An interesting change. I was part of the discussion after last year's awards, but it petered off both on the mailing list and LiveJournal. I'm wondering if this will help the awards get some traction again, or if they're going to continue getting a small number of votes from involved people.