Yeah you shouldnt be able to nominate yourself or anything, and to sort out the nominations from the good and the bad you need a 9-person voting committee with 2 mods, 5 senior forumers, and 2 people that you think would be unbiased NO MATTER WHAT (this wouldnt include yourself, you would act as supervisor and errand boy).Then once you narrow it down to 5-10 WORTHY nominees, then create the links to the polls on separate threads, and keep the results private until the ceremony where all would be revealed
