Actinic Community Awards 2008 - Vote NOW!

[Darren B]

We're not allowed to have that category. (lets not debate why or when or what, just accept and chose some others).


Tell you what, I'll do the announcement bit again, say Friday the 18th December? if someone else handles the categories, the encouragement for votes spam tactics and vote counting?

hmm i think the new mods should come up with something, and they can even make use of the built in voting, maybe a first round of voting then create a top three list then set up a poll with the names and then peoples can click and vote for the said peeps

[george]

Can we have £1 per text voting as well then, ideally on a Saturday night, just after the tv burp fella?



*gets excited*

[Mike Hughes]

PS Kathy - your woeful efforts bear into insignificance compared to one user. His/her site could well be built in V8 and launched in V10. You have second place nailed down though for sure.

V10?

Never let it be said I'm one to jump the gun.

Mike

[george]

Has anyone made a list of categories yet then?

[Darren B]

i thought the new mods were sorting it all out

[Mike Hughes]

I thought George was doing it.

Mike

[Mike Hughes]

Oh FFS. Let's all do it together.

Here's last years categories:

The Good:
- Most Posts Award
- Most Helpful Member
- Hack of the Year
- Best site of the year.
- Funniest member.
- Favourite Actinic Towers Personage Award.

The Bad
- Most benefit award
- Most awkward member award
- Worst speling and grammar award
- Most Unashamed Number of Links in Signature Award
- Member With Most Humerous Tantrums Award

The Rest
- The Most Requested (Repeated) Question
- Acticide Award
- The ramble on award.
- Real life Difference award
- Hottest Looking Avatar
- For the person who I'd like to get an award but doesn't quite make the grade for any of the others.

I'd cut it down to just 3 awards per section and then have an overall award for the 'Forum Member of the year'. My choices would be

The Good:
- Most Helpful Member
- Hack of the Year
- Best site of the year

The Bad
- Worst award speling and grammar
- Most Unashamed Number of Links in Signature Award
- The Most Requested (Repeated) Question

The Rest
- The Funniest post/thread award
- The ramble on award
- The Forum Improvement award

The Biggie:
- Forum member of the year award

Mike

[leehack]

It's not really possible to set this up on the forum as far as i can work out. There could be a poll setup for each category, but each point would need about 200 people as the options (maybe more).

It would be possible via a short list for example, so each award had say 5-10 nominees maximum. That would be viable, but how do you collect nominees and give people privacy when they do it?

I think last year Gabe had a form and a database collating the votes, or maybe they were collated from an email created by the form etc. It was anonymous IIRC.

If you want it setup and you can think of a way of doing it via the forum that i have missed, let me know i'll gladly set up whatever i can for you.

[leehack]

10 nominees is the maximum, i've just checked, if you can somehow shortlist down to 10 options per award, it's possible via the forum .

[Mike Hughes]

I think we're kind of buggered on this.

Ideally we'd allow a week for nominations and then another week for voting. There's really only a week left until Christmas and it'll take us that long to agree on the categories, how we're going to do it and put it all in place.

Possibly something for the new year?

Mike

PS. I think it would be a good idea when we do get around to doing this that we email ALL the members of the forum three times to get them involved:

1st email to ask for nominations
2nd email to announce the nominations and ask for votes
3rd email to announce the winners

We probably need to get Actinic to approve this and check it's allowed under the forum rules.

Mike

[leehack]

I don't think the categories are so hard to decide on, none of us chose them last year and i think they were fine, for ease you'd just roll with those again I guess. Because of the limit to 10 choices the nominations is always going to be the sticking point IMO, whether you do it now or in the new year. How do you get them and who collates it? If you're thinking of emailing all members, it could become a huge job.

I think it needs to be done without actinic involved personally, getting into large email campaigns is something they probably won't want to get involved in. If they do, it then becomes something they probably need to run and endorse, i doubt they have the time.

We as a community need to do this with what we have available IMO, but let's see what others think also and maybe actinic can be approached.

[leehack]

Maybe Gabe (aka Lord Lucan lately) still has the voting page and scripts setup, has anyone seen head or tail of him lately?

[Mike Hughes]

The scripts are still there. http://www.interact-studio.co.uk/machform/view.php?id=2

All forum members are given the option to allow / disallow emails from the administrators. It seems reasonable to email those that have said it's OK on this.

I'd rather we did involve as many forum members as we can rather than just limiting to the few regulars. It seems like a good opportunity to remind people about the forum and give them an opportunity to nominate or vote for someone who's helped them out. Make it a bit more inclusive to everyone and not just a joke for the in-crowd. That's partially why I'd limit the award categories to the more sensible options.

Yes, Actinic should be aware and involved. They started the idea off and then went quiet on the idea. I doubt if they'd object.

Mike

[Darren B]

Maybe Gabe (aka Lord Lucan lately) still has the voting page and scripts setup, has anyone seen head or tail of him lately?

Gabes still around - hes just a very busy boy at the mo - and not computer related

[leehack]

The scripts are still there. http://www.interact-studio.co.uk/machform/view.php?id=2

All forum members are given the option to allow / disallow emails from the administrators. It seems reasonable to email those that have said it's OK on this.

I'd rather we did involve as many forum members as we can rather than just limiting to the few regulars. It seems like a good opportunity to remind people about the forum and give them an opportunity to nominate or vote for someone who's helped them out. Make it a bit more inclusive to everyone and not just a joke for the in-crowd. That's partially why I'd limit the award categories to the more sensible options.

Yes, Actinic should be aware and involved. They started the idea off and then went quiet on the idea. I doubt if they'd object.

Mike

When you put it like that, I tend to agree, I must say.