i'm with bjorn here. i mean, sure - i'd have been happy to be nominated, but since cybersocket has no kind of quality guidelines or anything else, all a site needs in order to be nominated was to have the owner email a buddy and say "hey, nominate my site".

i've been inside of some of the paysites nominated for awards and some are pretty poor quality with little content, poor navigation and nothing to make them personal. i reviewed one of the sites listed and the site didn't have any videos and had 16 - count 'em, 16 - pic sets.

i'd love to see honest awards in the industry where the sites - amateur or pro - that deserve recognition because of excellence of content, excellence of design, excellence of concept or user friendliness or fresh and exciting content are nominated to win.

don't get me wrong - some, like chilihost - deserve to be nominated. but being one of the best sites in some way means a lot more than being listed with a group of sites whose only thing in common is that the site owners and their friends bothered to nominate the sites when most of us didn't bother to nominate anyone. and why? because the winners are so rarely the best - they are just the ones where the webmasters get their surfers or friends to vote without even seeing the site.