Member of the Month?

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:24 am

We had a discussion a while back about having a member of the month, kinda a way to recognize people here that go out of their way to be helpful, or someone who really helps the GenVibe community. I can't find that thread anymore, so I am starting this one in it's place. I have a few people that I'd love to give kudos to!Plus, someday I might even get it....because I'll never get VOTM, I just can't bring myself to mod the way these guys do!

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:29 am

MOTM was http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=15320 but for some reason it is no longer here. Perhaps it was lost in the server maintenance period a week or so ago, or perhaps it was deleted. Guess we'll be able to infer which based on how long this thread stays around

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:16 pm

I think it was dropped due to lack of interest. Not enough people got behind it, and you'd have to have at least 2 of the mods be in charge of it so it doesn't get left in the dust. I found it interesting, but I'm not in a postion to make it happen, so I'll drop it again.....

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:49 pm

I think it's a good idea, but only if it is a random selection from a list of nominees and each person nominated only gets one chance, even if nominated multiple times. The point of it was to highlight helpful members, not to have some sort of popularity contest.

ArcsVibe · Post by **ArcsVibe** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:50 pm

I told Kari that I liked this idea....there are plenty of great people and members here!

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:34 pm

I believe Kari has a full plate with Grad School. Maybe one of the other Mods would like to take this on and champion it? *hint, hint, nudge, nudge*

ArcsVibe · Post by **ArcsVibe** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:45 pm

Quote, originally posted by tnpartsguy »I believe Kari has a full plate with Grad School. Maybe one of the other Mods would like to take this on and champion it? *hint, hint, nudge, nudge* LOL ok ok let me see what I can do. I still want Kari involved since it is her idea. Plus with a newborn I kinda have a full plate too

drunkenmaxx · Post by **drunkenmaxx** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:43 pm

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »The point of it was to highlight helpful membersdamn, there goes my only chance for glory!

rebbierae · Post by **rebbierae** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:58 am

Drunken, you help make us laugh every single day!!

binary · Post by **binary** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:56 am

If anything that sig sure gets noticed by people looking over my damn shoulder.Yeah you know who I'm talking too! Now beat it and go do something worth while!

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:57 am

Good deal.

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:26 am

Thank YOU!!!!

Mr. Poopypants · Post by **Mr. Poopypants** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:21 am

Quote, originally posted by drunkenvibe »damn, there goes my only chance for glory!Amen brother!

BlueCrush · Post by **BlueCrush** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:26 am

Awesome! Thanks, joatmon!

gargoyle · Post by **gargoyle** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:12 am

I like it. Let's give it a try.

Mr. Poopypants · Post by **Mr. Poopypants** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:32 am

Quote, originally posted by drunkenvibe »damn, there goes my only chance for glory!Not so fast, Mr. nominee for VOTM.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:43 am

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »1. You can't change these rules2. The winner will be selected at random from those that have been nominated. If I don't like you, that will have no affect on your odds of winning. It's not about me.3. Vote early, vote often, but it won't help your candidate. Each person who gets voted for will have one entry in the random winner selection, so in the drawing, a member who has one vote gets one chance, a member who got 42 votes gets one chance. So there's no reason to vote for yourself a hundred times, that would just be sad.4. The purpose of MOTM is say "good job" to someone on the forum, and it is not a popularity contest, and it may or may not have anything to do with their car. It doesn't matter. It is about the person, perhaps someone helpful, or resourceful, or friendly, or steadfast, or whatever reason you want. The only criteria is that you have some reason to vote for a person. Whatever reason that may be, it doesn't matter. This is almost a non-rule.5. Anyone protesting the selection of the winner will be permanently prohibited from ever getting a chance to win, and will be publicly spurned in the forum. Mercilessly. Until the mods make me stop.6. There are no prizes, no cash awards, no material benefit to winning. This contest is not available where proibited by law. 7. The vote form has a spot for the members name, and a spot for why you think that person should be MOTM. If I can not trace back the name of the person you are voting for to a real genvibe username, then it gets thrown away If you don't bother to explain why you think that member should be MOTM, it gets thrown away. Really, what's the point of going to the trouble to fill out the form if you're not going to include a readable name and reason? If there is a specific post or thread that makes you appreciate a particular member, refer to it , include the link in the reason.8. Winner will be selected at random using a super secret random technique involving a high degree of randomness, which is both secret and random, and is a technique.9. The winner will be announced along with the text of the various reasons given in the ballots, or at least as much as can be reposted here and still stay within the forum content rules. 10. If you want the winner to know that you provided a specific vote/reason, then put your username in the reason, otherwise votes are anonymous.11. Genvibe members who have been banned, and genvibe members involved in the winner selection are prohibited from winning. This means me, and the bad guys. So don't bother voting for any of us. If too many people people vote for prohibited members, then I'll have to put in some sort of trap to filter those out, so spare me the trouble.12. Votes reset on the first of the month, arbitrarily at 00:00 EST/EDT13. Really, there are a lot of helpful members here, so for now I am thinking that the winning member is disqualified from winning again. ever. Might change that depending on the number of votes and the quality of all of you posting on the forum, but that's the starting rule. If a previous winner continues to get new votes after winning, I may, at my discretion, edit their victory announcement to append the new praise.14. Once the winner is announced I may, if I choose, forward non-winning nomination entries to the person who was nominated. I mean, after all, the whole purpose is to give a to someone on the forums, so if someone gets lots of praise, they ought to know about it even if they didn't win in the super secret random selection process.15. This new rule for the kiddies: Frivolous and/or hostile submissions will be thrown away at my discretion. Grow up.

drunkenmaxx · Post by **drunkenmaxx** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:54 am

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »15. This new rule for the kiddies: Frivolous and/or hostile submissions will be thrown away at my discretion. Grow up. oh man, what i would give to read those!

Mr. Poopypants · Post by **Mr. Poopypants** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:03 am

Quote, originally posted by drunkenvibe »oh man, what i would give to read those!Yep.

rebbierae · Post by **rebbierae** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:21 am

Heh heh. Right ON!

drunkenmaxx · Post by **drunkenmaxx** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:25 am

so, if i was nominated for my, er.... shenanigans, would that not count joat?

Mr. Poopypants · Post by **Mr. Poopypants** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:39 am

Quote, originally posted by desert_dweller »I would think that shenanigans would be a pre-requisite for MOTM. WOOOHOOO if that's the case, I may have a shot at it!

Sputnik · Post by **Sputnik** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:40 am

We don't have fun unless we have controversy.

drunkenmaxx · Post by **drunkenmaxx** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:40 am

Quote, originally posted by Mr. Poopypants »WOOOHOOO if that's the case, I may have a shot at it! better stay on your toes, im gunnin' for it!

rasermon · Post by **rasermon** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:13 am

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »15. This new rule for the kiddies: Frivolous and/or hostile submissions will be thrown away at my discretion. Grow up. Lol, you always get a couple losers out of the bunch. Kids will be kids.

drunkenmaxx · Post by **drunkenmaxx** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:26 am

Quote, originally posted by rasermon »Lol, you always get a couple losers out of the bunch. Kids will be kids. yep, i.... oops they will always be there.i will be here to embrace them! i know everyone may think im very immature, but this is a forum i go to for fun and to get away from boredom. am i like the dv here in real life? sometimes, but not always.so, when do we get some feedback to nominations deemed acceptable?

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:07 am

Mr Justice, you can't write arguments FOR and Against.....that what the rest of the supremes are for.....let one of the write the dissent.LOL

gargoyle · Post by **gargoyle** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:17 pm

shenanigans?!?! A forum without shenanigans is like running your car without oil!I vote FOR shenanigans!Oh, by the way... when does voting start? or, do we even vote? ...wait, I just reread the "rules"... so it's just a random selection? Hmmm... well, I'll still vote anyway... <----- vote for Pedro... er... I mean... drunkenvibe!

Mr. Poopypants · Post by **Mr. Poopypants** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:50 am

So how's this going joat? Popular, not popular?

Faultline · Post by **Faultline** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:37 pm

[QUOTE=joatmon]8. Winner will be selected at random using a super secret random technique involving a high degree of randomness, which is both secret and random, and is a technique.QUOTE]This is my favorite rule! out of all the rules , it is the one that I favor. It is both mine, and my favorite as a rule.

Mr. Poopypants · Post by **Mr. Poopypants** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:57 pm

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »there have been a total of 11 valid nominations/votes, and there are 7 people in the running so far. most recent one was in the morning of 10/7So, not popular........

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:59 pm

I agree, it was a great idea Kari had, and I'm glad someone decided to run with it. I only wish to nominate one person a month, but I have several I would love to see get this.

GMJAP · Post by **GMJAP** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:04 pm

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »people don't see this threadThis is the first time I've seen anything about the MOTM in, literally, months. I had no idea it was going forward already....

BlueCrush · Post by **BlueCrush** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:32 pm

It doesn't stand out because there is no icon on the thread title like the ones with the red exclaimation point. The red icons really stand out.Also, the thread title should note that this is now a nomination thread and not just questioning the possibility.

binary · Post by **binary** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:35 pm

Start a new thread?

millster · Post by **millster** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:37 pm

Quote, originally posted by BlueCrush »It doesn't stand out because there is no icon on the thread title like the ones with the red exclaimation point. The red icons really stand out.Also, the thread title should note that this is now a nomination thread and not just questioning the possibility. Better?

BlueCrush · Post by **BlueCrush** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:16 am

Much better! It stands out right away! Thanks.

rebbierae · Post by **rebbierae** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 5:00 am

Yup, much better. I hadn't been paying much attention to this thread the last couple days, but I saw it right away after the heading got changed. Thanks Millster dude!!

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:54 am

well, somebody voted, but broke rule 7. they gave a good genvibe member username, but completely failed to provide any reason why that person should be MOTM. Rule 7 specifically states that that a member name and a reason must be given. If you're gonna say somebody should be MOTM, then you have to say why. Obviously you feel that person is MOTM worthy, you have to say why. So, whoever voted 15 minutes ago, sorry, your vote is invalid Let's recap:Quote »7. The vote form has a spot for the members name, and a spot for why you think that person should be MOTM. If I can not trace back the name of the person you are voting for to a real genvibe username, then it gets thrown away If you don't bother to explain why you think that member should be MOTM, it gets thrown away. Really, what's the point of going to the trouble to fill out the form if you're not going to include a readable name and reason? If there is a specific post or thread that makes you appreciate a particular member, refer to it , include the link in the reason.This has happened more than it should, so I will go modify the voting machine to let people know when they don't comply with that part of rule 7. edit - seems like it is performing the check correctly, it doesn't submit the vote until both member name and reason are not blank. if you put nonsense in the reason field, I'll still pitch it.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:50 am

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »there have been a total of 11 valid nominations/votes, and there are 7 people in the running so far. most recent one was in the morning of 10/7there have been a total of 14 valid nominations/votes, and there are 8 people in the running so far. most recent one was just before noon EDT 10/16

ToolGuy · Post by **ToolGuy** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:42 pm

Is there a list of the members nominated?I did a quick search of this thread and the opening site page and found nothing...

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:19 pm

The idea behind MOTM is that there are a lot of helpful, friendly, people who contribute to the site, in a wide variety of ways. If someone thinks that the contribution of a particular member shoudl be recognized, then they should nominate that member for MOTM, and say why. We have VOTM for members who have the "best" Vibes. MOTM is for the person, not the car. It's not a popularity contest, the number of votes doesn't matter, but each month one member will be highlighted for their contribution to the site and the genvibe community.Quote, originally posted by MiVibe-ToolGuy »Is there a list of the members nominated?Yes, there is a list, and I will post it on 11/1, in a winner announcement thread. Since number of votes doesn't affect odds, if somebody sees that their choice has already been nominated, then they might not bother to nominate that person. Right now the only way to know that a member has been nominated is to nominate them yourself. For what it's worth, looking in my server logs, valid votes have come from only ten unique IP addresses. I have my own opinion on what that statistic represents, but in keeping with thread 19571 I'll not comment.

ToolGuy · Post by **ToolGuy** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:24 pm

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »Yes, there is a list, and I will post it on 11/1, in a winner announcement thread. Since number of votes doesn't affect odds, if somebody sees that their choice has already been nominated, then they might not bother to nominate that person. Right now the only way to know that a member has been nominated is to nominate them yourself. OK thanks, maybe I will make it on the list before I die...

GMJAP · Post by **GMJAP** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:43 am

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »For what it's worth, looking in my server logs, valid votes have come from only ten unique IP addresses. I have my own opinion on what that statistic represents, but in keeping with thread 19571 I'll not comment.Is a member only supposed to nominate 1 person per month? I didn't see anything in the rules about that, and since it's a "random" drawing, it seems it would be appropriate to nominate anyone who has been an outstanding contributor.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:35 am

Quote, originally posted by GMJAP »Is a member only supposed to nominate 1 person per month? I didn't see anything in the rules about that, and since it's a "random" drawing, it seems it would be appropriate to nominate anyone who has been an outstanding contributor.There is no rule, it is up to you. The trade off is if you have one favorite person, then the fewer people that are nominated, the better the odds are for the one that you nominate. If you nominate multiple people, then they all get a chance, but perhaps a smaller chance. edit 10/27 to be clear about it all, I deliberately did not make a rule against one person nominating multiple people, that is not an issue in any way. I am a bit disappointed by the participation though, a low number of members have bothered to say that there is anyone here who's contributions to the site should be recognized.

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:44 am

"Time is Fleeting!" nominate someone!!*name the movie my quote is from too*

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:47 am

Nope. http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=19653I'm moving it to HERE to be on topic."Time is fleeting, madness takes it's toll" is the entire line......

BOZACK · Post by **BOZACK** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:10 am

Quote, originally posted by tnpartsguy »Nope. http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=19653I'm moving it to HERE to be on topic."Time is fleeting, madness takes it's toll" is the entire line......Rocky Horror Picture Show

tnpartsguy · Post by **tnpartsguy** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:13 am

OK, let's start taking nominations for this month!!!

BlueCrush · Post by **BlueCrush** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:31 am

How about starting a new thread for each month?