Member Of The Month

[Deadfire]

Well, it's been awhile since I've asked anything of the forum but this is one idea I have.

It is as the title states it is, basically the forum Mods would pick 5 members of the forum that were active and had contributed to discussions with very good results. As well picking 5 members that they feel that have displayed themselves as "model" members of this forum. After the Mods have agreed on 5 (or less) options a vote will be posted in the GD as a sticky for everyone here to vote. The prize is trivial to me as I'm not sure of what kind of prizes there can be. Thus this is posted in the suggestion forum for other people's ideas on this as well to be noted by our staff

Thanks,

Deadfire

[xDarkMaster]

While I like the idea, this will definitely cause arguments. Arguments about favoritism, and who didn't vote for who, and who is a pet of who and that's why they got nominated etc...

Maybe if the mods just picked one it would be fairer. However, even this will bring up the problem, how often can you be chosen?

[ChaosK]

We could do GW survivor again with all the people who joined in a certain year...

[Assassin]

its an intresting prospect, and it might even be motivation for members to better themselves. Not to mention it could help make the forums more active. But xDM brings up some valid concerns.

Im willing to look further into it, but give me a more detailed version (im too lazy to deal with the specifics). Think up some possible nomination criteria, judging methods and prizes/rewards, as well as how it would actualy play out. Once you have that, we'll talk it over in the mod lounge and see if its worth a shot.

One possibility would be letting the members nominate a few people, picking 4 or 5 of those people and then deciding whose been a good little boy or girl that month. Naturally this would take place in the last week or so of each month, and the winner (if you wanna call it that) would have the title for the following month.

However, don't get your hopes up just cuz of my post. The Dark Lord has a nasty habit of disregarding many of our suggestions, even the ones the mods agree with.

[masamuneehs]

The Dark Lord has a nasty habbit of disregarding many of our suggestions, even the ones the mods agree with.

The eye is watching you from Mordor! Dun dun dun!

Seriously though, i like this idea, but i also would like to see a more concrete structure laid out before considering whether to implement it or not. Either the mods nominating several users and having everyone vote on it or vice-versa sound plausible.
But I'm clueless about what prize to give out. Certainly not temporary modship, that's for sure. Maybe a custom title for a month?

[Assassin]

Temporary modship is out of the question. What we could have is an artificial increase in rep, say 100 rep points or so. Maybe a list on the main page with all the members of the month recorded there or something. IRC stuff is also an option...temp hops would be great. It would make the irc channel more lively, and since the forum rules dont apply, the winners can have some fun with thier powers.

[Munsu]

Meh, nobody cares about the "model member", we just want to make fun of the shitty ones.

[xDarkMaster]

That's true, we could have a wall of shame to discourage spamming and not thinking before you post.

[Deadfire]

Assassin, you do give some very good points this does need more of a planning step then anything, My first post was more to "test the waters" with the idea to see how it stood with people. The reason for it is how you said I wish to do exactly that using a system like this as it will help to a general effect.

As XDM pointed out in how to do it is the hardest part, as we just can't have everyone voting for themselves and having this contest of favoritism, more so then one of worth. We should have a voting system that uses the membership and Modship at different levels of the process. My current system as I think about it is this

Nomination: This is down by the Mods of the forum in which there are 7-10 Members chosen for the month based on the criteria.

Criteria: consists of conduct on the forum and to others, value of those members discussions, active and had not got warned during the month. Basically those that stand out for good reasons

Selection methods: After 7-10 members are selected the Mods themselves decide on 5 to go to the main voting phase. The main voting phase is when GW decides, as it will be a poll in the GD done on those members. The winner is the winner, in case of a tie the Mods may either give dual honor or pick. This would take place in the last week or so of each month, and the winner would have the title for the following month.

Prizes/Rewards: As of this moment we don't really know what can be given let us look at what we can do

IRC Powers (Such as half-ops)
Custom Title
Temp Rep (or permanent)
Custom Avatar/Sig (This is depending on our local artists)
Name added to a list of some kind (Either on the Front page or other wise)
And others I haven't said if any

What do you all think of that?

Meh, nobody cares about the "model member", we just want to make fun of the shitty ones.

Well we could have a vote on that to if you want, although I really don't know what you could give that guy other then a ban.

[Honoko]

I'm in favor of making fun of the shitty posters rather than nominating a model member. To me, "model members" are already thoroughly demonstrated through the rep system. But for some reason, the shitty posters are undeterred by their crappy reps and continue to be shitty posters. I don't know why. Is there a way to quarantine these people into a single thread on GW? Like, ban them from most of the site except for one place temporarily and see how that goes?

It is, of course, very possible that I am merely fantasizing and must learn how to read dumbass posts in a more graceful manner.

[Deadfire]

I'm in favor of making fun of the shitty posters rather than nominating a model member. To me, "model members" are already thoroughly demonstrated through the rep system. But for some reason, the shitty posters are undeterred by their crappy reps and continue to be shitty posters. I don't know why. Is there a way to quarantine these people into a single thread on GW? Like, ban them from most of the site except for one place temporarily and see how that goes?

It is, of course, very possible that I am merely fantasizing and must learn how to read dumbass posts in a more graceful manner.

It's called the Naruto Forums.....

Anyways I'm happy with anything to help get rid of those bad posters, this gives them at least something to shoot for in becoming better posters and be rewarded for it

[Honoko]

LOL... you're right. What was I thinking?

[Assassin]

The 'making fun of shitty posters' idea can't really go further then just that - making fun of then. If we were to have some sort of list for shitty posters, there are those who would strive to get on that list, so they can pretend thier important. That would result it more spamming, spoiling and general rule breaking, and wouldn't really help at all.

[Honoko]

The 'making fun of shitty posters' idea can't really go further then just that - making fun of then. If we were to have some sort of list for shitty posters, there are those who would strive to get on that list, so they can pretend thier important. That would result it more spamming, spoiling and general rule breaking, and wouldn't really help at all.

Well, that's why I suggested a quarantine If they're stuck in one thread and unable to post anywhere else for say, a week or two, they can pretend to be important and spam in there all they want and I really wouldn't care because I wouldn't bother going into that area to waste my time reading stupid posts. And to prevent the forums from cluttering up, you can just delete whole threads in there monthly or something. Their posts are useless anyway.

Whether or not this is a programmable feature, I have no idea. Regardless, I'm perfectly content with just imagining the possibilities I highly doubt something like this would ever be implemented. But wouldn't it be nice? ^^v

[masamuneehs]

i am so down for a 'crappy user of the month' where that user gets a temp ban (like a month long maybe?) if they're selected by everyone as being the crappy user of the month.

but i'd also like to have some positive vibes. I know that the Rep system is supposed to do all of the 'you're good, you're bad' sorting, but if we're going to have a contest with negative connotations it seems sorta whack and cruel to not try to do something special to reward those who put in an extra effort for that month.

[Deadfire]

So two contests (if you can call it that) for Best and Worse Gotwoot user. Should the voting system be the same for both then? or different?

[kAi]

The idea is not to bad, but will it get old fast or will it continue to go?

I wouldn't mind bringing back some of the older games that we used to have here, could be fun. Survivor 06.

[ChaosK]

Well we could have a vote on that to if you want, although I really don't know what you could give that guy other then a ban.

"title: Shittiest Poster of the Month" with a 1 week ban or something. And ban them from IRC.

[Assassin]

Someone should do another GW Survivor. One of you guys thats knows the rules, take the initiative.

[2:25]

This sounds like it's gonna take a bit of work.
What are the criteria?