@ Manjari, I'm sorry for let you feel like that, but put yourself into the writer of entry n. 20 or the entry that got 15 votes from the reader or into the shoes of those readers that took the time to read all the entries and vote whole heartily for entry n. 20. How you will feel seeing an entry that just got 2 votes and win something? I'm not against the writer, I know her.
You said it from the beginning that the judges' votes are more important, okay, I know that, and I would have said nothing if the list of the awards was would have ended after the best OS of each category, because in this way the judge did their job, they done everything which was fallign under their responsabilities, for me their job was over. Okay you wanted to mention also those stories which got a lot of points, okay no problems, but why you didn't thought about the story that was the Run Up if we keep in mind the readers vote, why again just thinking about what they got from the judges?
You know what I felt seeing it, that why the readers had taken their precious time to read and vote when their vote is not that much considered. I know I sound harsh, but this is the reality.
And yeah maybe doing all this I hurt the winners, but frankly speaking, such ko kabhi shupaya nahi jah sakta, if I would have got that, I would have never been happy to get something that someone deserved more than me, we live in a democracy and in a democracy the voice belongs to the people (readers)
And yeah I'm saying it here, because I don't fear saying what I feel, because I don't live on others money but thanks to God. So I'm saying it again, from my POV the score of judge n. 3 were random, if this judge wish to clear my doubt then I will be more than happy to know that. Because giving to a story 5 when the other two have given 9 and 8 it seems unfair.
I started it and I stopped it.
So my advice let's stop it here.
And Manjari, everyone does mistakes, I'm the first one, but the best thing is learning from them not crying on them, I know you didn't did it on purpose, as you were doing all according to what you were having in your mind, so I don't have any grudge against you and the same goes to the other.
For hurting you I'm sorry.
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