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Forum Awards Discussion; Deciding the Categories
Tweet Topic Started: Aug 31 2006, 03:36 PM (2,345 Views)
Amaranth	Aug 31 2006, 03:36 PM Post #1
The Lukewarm Posts: 671 Group: Super Mod Member #703 Joined: October 25, 2005	ditches the kickass font for this post Steps in, clears throat These awards will go ahead! And I shall be organising them. Now, I may call upon people to help out with sorting nominations/votes etc and I WILL need help with graphics, but as there has already been interest with graphics, hopefully that won't be a problem. I will write up a schedule about how things will work, what's gonna happen etc for later and shall post it as soon as it's done (hopefully later tonight). Until then, feel free to discuss the topic further. UPDATE: Okay, I've searched through this thread for categories, rounded some off and left with still quite a lot. Here's the ones I still have: Member You'd Like To Meet: Best Screen name: Most Promising Cleris (newbie award): Best Topic Starter: Funniest Member: Most Knowledgeable on FFVII: Most Knowledgeable on General Debate: Best Thread in General Chat: Best FF character cheerleader: Best avatar: Best sig: Best graphics used in a post: Yuffie's "Most Upbeat" Award Most Likely to Stalk Cloud Biggest Spam Games Lover Biggest Pwner In Debates Most Anime Obsessesed Best heaviest poster (over 1000 (or another limit)): Best light poster (under 1000 (or another limit)): Best club supporter: Best user title: Best Female Member: Best Male Member: If there is a category we could get rid of, please say so. ALSO, there have been requests elsewhere in this thread for "RP awards" etc, as I am not a reader in there, if people with ideas for an RP awards tell me, that'd be greatly appreciated and I'll add it. If we can get this sorted out as quickly as possible, we can go straight into the nominations, but NOT YET. I think the categories could be doing with a trim, and maybe a few additions/deletions. Please give your thoughts on them. The nomination process (once it begins) will take place over PM. The easiest way to do it would be to copy the category list and then put the name of your nomination next to the category. To avoid any "ganging up" of friends, you are only allowed to vote for the same member TWICE. This should lower any chance of friends getting together to try and steal categories (but surely that wouldn't happen here ;) ). There will be a timeline for nominations once we're at that stage. EVERYONE who gets nominated will go forward to the voting process. I will keep a post up to date with who is nominated so that 2 people don't vote for the same person in the same category. The voting will take place in polls. Now, where those polls will go is still being contemplated, but we'll worry about that once the time comes I hope I've made myself clear enough for you all...any questions, ask! And, please do, comment and/or discuss how things are set up right now! :) I hope this will be fun!



Maiden	Sep 3 2006, 11:32 PM Post #2
Advanced Member Posts: 1,314 Group: Banned Member #822 Joined: December 24, 2005	Quote: Most Likely to Stalk Cloud I'll win this one



Trisse	Sep 4 2006, 09:40 AM Post #3
Unregistered	Black_Chii Sep 3 2006, 11:32 PM Quote: Most Likely to Stalk Cloud I'll win this one nononono sweetie that title is reserved for me!! LOL jks jks!! I like the ideas! what about adding another category like, best original character (fanart). I dunno!!
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yin-chan	Sep 4 2006, 12:40 PM Post #4
dreamchaser Posts: 3,783 Group: Admin Member #251 Joined: May 22, 2005	Yay, good work Scott! :lol: Quote: The voting will take place in polls. Now, where those polls will go is still being contemplated, but we'll worry about that once the time comes I'm wondering about how this will work. Wouldn't this mean that everyone will be able to see who is winning / getting the most votes for each category? Wouldn't that somehow take the surprise out of things?



Prince Roxas	Sep 4 2006, 02:31 PM Post #5
Just a Nobody Posts: 4,605 Group: Admin Member #334 Joined: July 26, 2005	yin-chan Sep 4 2006, 12:40 PM I'm wondering about how this will work. Wouldn't this mean that everyone will be able to see who is winning / getting the most votes for each category? Wouldn't that somehow take the surprise out of things? There wouldn't really be anyway else of doing it. Its happened that way with the contests we have had in the past and I saw no problem with it. I think another rule should be in place, if you have voted then you MUST post in response saying WHY you voted for this member. Because then you don't have everyone voting for their friends or jsut an annoymous vote and we are left wondering why they were voted. Valid reasons should also be put down unless its a silly spam award



Amaranth	Sep 4 2006, 02:58 PM Post #6
The Lukewarm Posts: 671 Group: Super Mod Member #703 Joined: October 25, 2005	Sonikku Sep 4 2006, 02:31 PM I think another rule should be in place, if you have voted then you MUST post in response saying WHY you voted for this member. Because then you don't have everyone voting for their friends or jsut an annoymous vote and we are left wondering why they were voted. Valid reasons should also be put down unless its a silly spam award That certainly does help, though it doesn't need to be a huge explanation, we don't want the PMs getting too big that it's a task reading them all And Afrononomous, the category suggestions are still open, so do suggest some Also, if there's any categories that can be ditched, I'd like to hear them too. No point in having categories no one cares about. As for the polls...I'm still thinking!



Prince Roxas	Sep 4 2006, 06:07 PM Post #7
Just a Nobody Posts: 4,605 Group: Admin Member #334 Joined: July 26, 2005	Scott Sep 4 2006, 02:58 PM Sonikku Sep 4 2006, 02:31 PM I think another rule should be in place, if you have voted then you MUST post in response saying WHY you voted for this member. Because then you don't have everyone voting for their friends or jsut an annoymous vote and we are left wondering why they were voted. Valid reasons should also be put down unless its a silly spam award That certainly does help, though it doesn't need to be a huge explanation, we don't want the PMs getting too big that it's a task reading them all Yeah not too big, but I didn't mean the PMs. I meant when the topics are actually opened for voting. You should post with why you choose this person to win whatever award.



Angelalex242	Sep 4 2006, 09:22 PM Post #8
Keeper of the Intimacy of Aerith's soul living in Cloud Posts: 3,014 Group: Cetra Member #1,126 Joined: April 25, 2006	Oh, sure, there's a category for:Most likely to stalk Cloud... But what of Aerith? Though perhaps I'd rather phrase that as 'Most likely to meld with Aerith's Spirit.'



Lute	Sep 5 2006, 03:27 AM Post #9
OFFICIAL FORUM GODDESS Posts: 1,993 Group: Super Mod Member #860 Joined: January 5, 2006	Angelalex242 Sep 4 2006, 01:22 PM Oh, sure, there's a category for:Most likely to stalk Cloud... But what of Aerith? Though perhaps I'd rather phrase that as 'Most likely to meld with Aerith's Spirit.' Haha, you'd win that one hands down. How about a nicest member, or a craziest member, or dorkiest member (in a good sense :D) award? xD Some more general ones would be nice, and I think the listed categories are all great.



Lynn	Sep 5 2006, 03:28 PM Post #10
Lynn has no Lloud smut ;-; Posts: 3,871 Group: Cetra Member #376 Joined: August 12, 2005	Hmm, I'll prune the list a bit instead of giving suggestions ~~since my suggestions are all boring and lame~~. I still feel that categories like "Best Fanfiction", "Best Artist", "Best Sig" don't need to be included because they can have full contests on their own. In fact, I believe we've had a contest for signature sets before. So I guess my suggestion would be to limit the categories to ones you'd never have a full competition for separately (I doubt we'll be having a "Most Like Yuffie" competition anytime soon!). "Best Thread"-- perhaps specify a certain type of thread? Such as threads that have to do with Cleris, or General Chat threads, etc. "Best Thread" itself has waaaaay too many choices. :lol: As for the polls, we could try working on an honour system where we hope the members don't look at the results after voting... Yeah, didn't think so. You could try out my idea of voting via PM, but only if we can lower the number of categories. As they are right now, I'd pity Scott if he had to manually count every vote for every category made!



Prince Roxas	Sep 6 2006, 09:36 AM Post #11
Just a Nobody Posts: 4,605 Group: Admin Member #334 Joined: July 26, 2005	That's why I think an actual topic would be better. Because Scott's PM box would fill up pretty quickly considering how many members there are and they could not get there vote through. We could just have a topic, not a poll. But then again a poll would make it so easier to count all of the votes up. Edit: By the way, whatever happened to this?



Amaranth	Sep 6 2006, 02:58 PM Post #12
The Lukewarm Posts: 671 Group: Super Mod Member #703 Joined: October 25, 2005	The problem with having a thread is that people then KNOW who voted for them. These kind of things are usually private, especially since people are so close around here, people could get hurt... My PM system works fine here, and my inbox doesn't have much in it. Every PM sent to me has gotten to me, and vice versa. The polls though...you can see who is winning but not who voted for who. That may be the only way we can do this besdies voting through PM just as the nominations did. Not as exciting, I'm sure you'll agree.



Hades' Daughter	Sep 6 2006, 04:14 PM Post #13
Cleris Extremist Posts: 4,027 Group: Super Mod Member #172 Joined: February 20, 2005	First off, thanks for offering to help set this contest up, Scott. We really appreciate it. Quote: The problem with having a thread is that people then KNOW who voted for them. These kind of things are usually private, especially since people are so close around here, people could get hurt... I agree with what you pointed out about having a poll or a thread system. The PM system is a pretty good idea...only if it's not going to be too much of a hassle for you, of course.



Amaranth	Sep 6 2006, 04:27 PM Post #14
The Lukewarm Posts: 671 Group: Super Mod Member #703 Joined: October 25, 2005	Hades' Daughter Sep 6 2006, 04:14 PM First off, thanks for offering to help set this contest up, Scott. We really appreciate it. I agree with what you pointed out about having a poll or a thread system. The PM system is a pretty good idea...only if it's not going to be too much of a hassle for you, of course. Thank you for your kind words HD! :) I agree the PM system sounds good (and it works from experience), I just don't think it has as much suspense as the poll option but then people know who is winning and can get their friends to vote if they're losing. The PM system isn't too much hassle, but it would certainly help if we could cut the list of categories down. Of course, requests can still come for new ones, but requests to get rid of some would be nice too ^_^;



i pRomiSe**	Sep 6 2006, 10:39 PM Post #15
less qq, more pew pew. Posts: 1,397 Group: Members Member #385 Joined: August 14, 2005	I lurveth the topics. =D The 'Most Likely to Stalk Cloud' pwns. 8D And because I am uncreative in every way, I have no suggestions, but you're doing a great job with this, Scott. Nice organization like woah. Um, this may be slightly going off topic here, but am I still making the awards? I remember back in that other thread I said I would. I don't know if Lynn read it, though, because she told me to reply to her if I could and I did. XD;;;;;;; xinfinity


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