all of the above is correct (thank you).
emmett_s disappeared before I myself started here.
Before we met CatMan (second time), CatMan already added in his OMNI-answers often related with nancy at that time), playing CatPolice himself for his own posting, that he might have won the OMNI-award of the day ... So in fact, he laid the base for creating a REAL award. I just discussed and pushed the realization of his idea in that meeting. One of my personal motives for the award was/still is: to thank (many of) you for a (in my personal judgement) far above average quality/seriousness/friendliness/help/humour for such an open board on the internet (and for accepting my difficulties with your language).
We didn't wanted to be bent by any strict rules, we did just discuss and agree on some principles as f.e.:
* to be (as an ad-hoc-committee) free to give the award whenever we feel like doing it, to whom we feel could help the quality/humour/every-day life here on FlyerTalk, and to change/adapt the trophies from case to case.
* the award should never harm the interests of our hosts (FlyerTalk/webflyer).
* the award should make fun (and not have any "police" or "teacher" form ...and not even "harm" potential "misusers" of the FlyerTalk-board: the best way to deal with them, we thought, was to simply ignore them - but we didn't "judge" emmett_s, nancy, roberto as "misusers" - at least as long as their contributions are not to long and to many of them).
* we want to be free, to stop it any ("appropiate") time - whenever we think it would be best to stop it.
* the trophy should never have any real money-value (we couldn't afford this) - but make fund and hopefully be appreciated, by as many as possible.
One of the difficulties CatMan and me faced, when we decided on the November-award(s) (with many winners) was, that we could only include FlyerTalk-contributers as winners, of whom we knew their actual mailing addresses (as I had to prepare the mailing long before my US-trip, but at the same time we didn't want to announce the winners before the mailing-date and we were to shy to ask more people here to just trust and deliver us their postal-addresses without reason).