I think if people were more reserved with their voting, then the awards will hold more value kinda like what Noodles is saying. I agree on a lot of points Pud also says ... but to me, not everyone should have every award ... its supposed to be fun when browsing other threads and I look at a member and I see "oh he's a big batman fan" etc. etc.
To me, if you dont have enough to win the award, big deal ... there is plenty of time
as your collection grows you can update your post and inform people of that and more people can take a look again and add "thanks" if they feel your collection is of the standard of the award.
While I was excited to get this off the "ground" I made the mistake of making it too easy ... instead of pissing people off and taking away their awards I let those stand and just updated the OP's with more rules. Some of the new ones now have 30 "thanks" as this portion of the site grows and more people partake in the fun then 30 can become 40 etc. I even removed some awards from myself as I obtained them with the rules were easier. Tis okay tho, I hope to earn them one day!