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those sorts of events are the non-interactive type. "just show up. wear a costume. full stop". vrg can do that.
vrg definitely cannot do anything that requires participants to make specific actions, good faith participation, voting, organization, or anything like these.
why are people complaining about this event? two reasons: nominations weren't open, and people nominated in some categories might have their feelings hurt.
to begin with those two complaints are completely irreconcilable, since open nominations would be completely free to nominate anyone for anything, and saying "oh well we won't let them be an official nominee if they don't want to be" won't change anything about the fact that the whole thread/community/whatever already fucking voted and spat in their face that "everybody thinks you're a fucking annoying autist"
but beyond that, what kind of fucking event do you think it would/will actually be with everyone free to vote on shit? i don't give a shit if it's anonymous or not, or if you can reliably limit people to one vote per person, or if you can gatekeep only people who have been around for however long is long enough. it's gonna be a fucking shitpost memefest. just like every poal in the thread and just like the orb vote. if you really think the community at large, undifferentiated, can come together to do good things with any reliability, then welcome to what must be your first fucking day on 4chan.
as far as hurting people's feelings, this is a complaint that nobody has actually proven is substantive. or even claimed it's substantive. or even implied it's substantive. where are the angry, upset people? even just the idea, like a shitpost about "oh well they're too shy to say it but someone dmed me saying they were really upset" (inb4 exactly that in the next post). maybe i wouldn't have made categories like this, since they're bant-y, and i'm not much for bants. but they're hardly as bad as 4chan is known for. what would you use?