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What could the categories be though?
The obvious ones seem to be consensual and non-consensual, which I did propose myself, worried that one might end up more popular by itself then the other, but it seems my worries were misplaced seeing how both consensual and non-consensual stories made their way into the top three. Then, just two categories wouldn't really make everyone the winner in their own category. And another problem is some stories might have dubious consent difficult to categorize.

What other categories can there be? Best m/f story, best f/f story, best m/m story, best story about a pair of twins who happen to have their names start with L and R… this way the categories might end up including too few stories each. Besides, okay, let's imagine the best consensual little girl cooking story category… somehow there happen to be many works in that specific one… but that would still have the votes spread among the certain authors' many works, each getting less as if punishing him for the productivity.

Then the categories can be like best character, best world building, best relationship, best narrative, and such, where each work can compete in every category. But then it would require too deep an analysis from the voters. Besides the problem where different works of the same author would compere with each other still stays, because if the author is good in some aspect, they're likely to be good in it in their various stories. So, like one author might actually be better in a certain aspect, but votes for them would be smeared among their works, and another author with a slightly inferior but only single story would win instead.

Actually, no matter how you juggle the categories, it doesn't really help the issue that as long as stories and not authors are competing, there'll be a problem of deciding which sets of stories can or can not be considered a single entry.