Adam already posted what I wrote when I was not sure if I would spend the time of the Appreciated member Award in a hospital and out of reach of an internet access.
There are many, many members in the GOF whom I really appreciate a lot though I did not cast my vote for them on any of the awards. Littlefoot, Andrey, Sebastian, and James for example are members with whom I really hold in very high esteem though I did not nominate one of them of an award this year.
Somehow one of the most important of all members of the GOF and the founder of this "Great Place" was not elected for any of the other awards which goes to show that the awards cover but only a tiny fraction of what is important for the GOF and that they are but an imperfect way of giving credit to GOF members. Not only would this place not exist without Adam, but it would not work out properly either. His work cannot be appreciated enough.
I also want F-22 to know that I really appreciate you a lot, that I think we have come to know each other more than we did so far throughout the past year, and that we may get to know each other even better during the year to come. We may disagree on a couple of things, but you are nobody to dislike someone for just disagreeing on some points. We certainly do have some shared interests and I'm looking forward to discuss them on the GOF
My vote for the
Appreciated Member Award goes to
Cancarian Tiger. She participation almost everywhere in the GOF, and did so in a very interesting manner. Very often she really got discussions going, started, or restarted. She has the courage to let everyone know if she disagrees on something (thereby creating really interesting discussions) and at the same time she doesn't see disagreeing necessarily as a cause of conflict. Her great activity in the GOF goes along with a generally friendly nature of the same. I also admit that she is in my personal "good books" for being the only ever of many fans whom I send it who took the trouble to read what I have written of my story "Old Threehorns" so far. For all this my vote on this final award goes to her.