It is all kind of silly, Tracy, you’re right. And yet we do it.

I’d be glad to do the Niblets next year because I think I could be objective. I seriously do.

Although I’m having serious calls on my time and may have to go Christian Cardall on you guys.

Kurt, it occurs to me that your feelings have been seriously hurt. I honestly don’t know who you are and if we are or are not friends. I would like to go on record as NOT voting for the Snarker as the worst thing on the bloggernacle. I voted for the one about cliqueishness.

But I still believe FMH is a good blog and a big blog and deserved the opportunity to duke it out with the boys.

Kurt, you are coming across as more attacking than anybody. At least on this thread. Although you could feel backed into a corner.

LOL, I just had a picture of me next year bitching everybody out who criticizes my handling of the award. And Kurt fed-exing me a valium.

And to think, I used to not post with Conversation. I am simply destined not to write.

Daniel, well, there you go, everybody is happy. Maybe Lisa will let DKL and you guest post there at FMH. DKL can post as Miranda Park Jones and set himself up with some peach of a lame argument that he can then attack as DKL to show off how smart he is, just like old times, eh, Dave? And you can talk about how big FMH is, and all the reasons why it is big. Knock yourselves out, guys. I am sure you will do a bang up job and all the peeps there at FMH will lap it up.

Do you mean that as a criticism? I don’t mind being in their company.

So Kurt, I’ll tell you what: When I decide to undertake to do the Niblet awards, you can judge whether or not I do a better job than an anonymous snarker.

Lets drag this non-issue out for another trot once again:

The nominations round was by the Bloggernacle, and was adhered to with the exception of pulling the two category killers out so that someone else would have a chance at winning.

The voting was handled by a completely independent third party (e.g., Survey Monkey).

The raw results as produced by Survey Monkey were posted.

Where is the lack of transparency in this process? There is none. Dazzle won’t say who he is? That has absolutely no impact whatsoever on the nominations, voting or results. And even the critics havent suggested it does. So what legitimate gripe do you have? None. You want Dazzle to say he is John Doe? What will that change? Nothing. It is just something for whiners to whine about. Wah.

I don’t have anything to complain about. The blog that I participate in did pretty well this year, so there’s no sour grapes on my part.

But you will go ahead and complain about SnarkerNacle and the acrimony anyway, even though you have no reason to complain, right?

There’s a reason why the Snarkernacle got voted the worst thing in the nacle. I suspect that it’s no mere coincidence that the first year in which the Niblets have proven acrimonious is the year that someone from Snarkernacle anonymously ran them.

Yeah, DKL, no bitterness there. Maybe if we all followed your stellar example there would be more love, peace and charity in the Bloggernacle. Oh, that we at SnarkerNacle could be more LDSelect-like and work to undermine the MoArch just a little more peacefully and lovingly, without acrimony. Oh, that Snarkimus Prime would apologize for all the hurt feelings and unkind things done, even as the uber-charitable lord DKL has. Maybe, someday, my unapologetic Miranda. You are just bitter that you can no longer legitimately claim to be the most reviled person in the Bloggernacle.

The fact that Dazzle is unwilling to put his own name behind his product says more about it than anything I can.

Nevertheless, I find the pretense that “it just doesn’t matter” to be pretty pathetic. It reflects either severe ignorance or feigned coolness. Ignorance I can deal with (I, for one, have got enough of it to go around), but the feigned coolness is insufferable. It’s what makes T&S a better blog than BCC this year (in spite of the voting results); T&S doesn’t pretend to be cool. Too many bloggers appear to have missed the memo: We’re all a bunch of geeks, and blogging is a poor substitute for pretty much any constructive hobby.

I don’t have anything to complain about. The blog that I participate in did pretty well this year, so there’s no sour grapes on my part.

There’s a reason why the Snarkernacle got voted the worst thing in the nacle. I suspect that it’s no mere coincidence that the first year in which the Niblets have proven acrimonious is the year that someone from Snarkernacle anonymously ran them.