Hello Everyone!
the staff of the GOF are proud to announce that the 2015 GOF Awards will be starting on August 1st and will run for two weeks. as before, voters are allowed to skip a maximum of 2 categories, provided they vote in the appreciated Award. we have decided to make a slight change to the requirements. the requirements of being active for 3 months and getting to 100 posts will remain unchanged, however a poster must now have posted within the last 2 months in order to be eligible. in the past it was within the current year, but we have found that folks who posted at the beginning of the year and were absent for several weeks or months afterward did not come back to participate. we have decided this year to try and increase the percentage of eligible members who vote to 25%, because in the past the percentage of people who actually voted, was to be candid very low, and it does take a lot of staff time and effort to put on these awards each year.