I've just made a whole bunch of minor edits to several pages, including fixing a couple of errors that were reported ages ago (the style drop-down in Roar of Time style being white with white text in Chrome, the Day-Care couple conspiracy theory saying they're childless when they have a grandchild in HG/SS, and a confusing wording in one of the crossword clue explanations) and some random wording tweaks.

I also got done with those affiliation and site rating requests. There were a couple of award requests also, but I've actually decided to discontinue the awards, so I'm afraid those won't be responded to.

The reasons for this are simple. First, website awards are becoming less and less common; fewer sites are offering awards, and fewer sites have sections with awards they've won (I took down my own ages ago, for instance). This in itself makes the awards kind of obsolete; a webmaster would have to make an awards section pretty much only to put my award on, which is just kind of a waste of space. Back when I originally created my awards, every other Pokémon site out there was offering awards and everyone had a section with awards they'd won; it was a lot more natural at the time.

Second, what the awards were was pretty much "a site rating, except I also make a silly little image that you can put on your site somewhere". I'm not that fond of giving out ego boosts; the main point of the awards was to encourage people to do better by giving them something to aspire towards. I think affiliation is pretty much doing the awards' job at that by now, though, as my affiliation standards are pretty high (and it's pretty much "a site rating, except I also put your link on my site if I really like it"); getting to put The Cave of Dragonflies' link button under Affiliates on your site serves pretty much the same purpose as an award and has a broader application.

I may possibly do something in that direction again, but for now I think the awards were basically extraneous, so yeah, they're gone. Sorry if you wanted one.

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