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Member of the Month award
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2. July 2004 @ 14:30 |
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How about a member of the month award to the member who really makes a differance to the forum for the month.He could have his name on the news page mentioning what he has done to deserve this or he could be moved from what ever he his newbie,junior so on one up.Some how this would give members who really make a differance to others some sort of achievement they want to continue.I feel some of the members on this site should get some real praise where it counts.I do not believe at present that includes me but you never know in the future.I know on some sites they give dvd writers and all sorts of things to the dedicated memebers.If you go to cdcovers.cc and see what they have achieved by this.They are No1 cover site because they set a goal for people to chase.Iam not saying this site could afford that type of thing but a bit of praise where due to the boyz and girls where it counts wont't go a miss.I believe some of the people who spend countless hours on this site helping to make it the No1 site which i believe it is deserve at least some sort of pat on the back.
What do you think?????
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2. July 2004 @ 14:37 |
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Iam sorry where i keep saying he in my first post i meant he or she.
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Praetor
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2. July 2004 @ 19:17 |
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Not a bad idea actually :)
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2. July 2004 @ 23:02 |
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I like the idea aswell.
I vote "Vurbal"
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3. July 2004 @ 10:24 |
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Not to stiffle this idea but lets refrain from the voting until this is "decided" otherwise we're gonna have a flood of votes and nothing official to do with them heehee :)
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3. July 2004 @ 11:34 |
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This seems like a good Idea. Could show Newbies how to act and what type of behaviour is expected. They could even win a T-shirt or something (pencil if t-shirt is too expensive).
But the negatives I could see sensitive users feeling like they are always left out. And see more threads instead on how to "move up the ranks" to how do I become the member of the month.
But more importantly I can see users creating "perfect Ids" and Not so perfect Ids to boost they apperance. Person X and Y fight with each other and Person X always wins and looks like the hero. But guess what person X and Y are the same person.
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4. July 2004 @ 09:28 |
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We have had a similar idea before and have most likely a solution for how to implement this as well, in terms of forum posts. We'll look into this one, but as always, have patience..
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4. July 2004 @ 10:15 |
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(pencil if t-shirt is too expensive).
At least a pen ... lol
I don't think a member of the month is needed. The members who do make a difference are rewarded when the people they help are successful. And there are alot of members helping alot of people. So how would you even choose just one?
Last, I think one of the best rewards would be becoming a Senior or Addict.
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5. July 2004 @ 14:30 |
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Well if you keep working you might make there flip218.
But thinking of the number of users, would this just be a popularity contest or could you actually discriminate? That could be a lot of fun, reading thousands of posts and selecting a winner.
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5. July 2004 @ 21:06 |
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would this just be a popularity contest or could you actually discriminate?
Kinda a bit of both. I for one go through enough posts a day to know that there are a crapload of really good posters out there. Perhaps the selection process might be simpler if we broke things down into "categories" -- 'sides it's not really fair considering some of the long-time members here have developed a posting "style" and technique which has been refined over hundreds of posts heehee.
I would tend to say that it is possible to discrimnate and eventually come up with a "top" poster -- but the things is, by the time whoever objectively comes up with that decision, it will be long past that month heehee. 'sides I dunno about the other Mods (and other heavy posters), I for one simply dont have enough time to go through and read up on posts etc... after awhile however I do get a sense for who is a good contributer and who isnt ... and then I make reccommendations for Senior/Addict promotions.
Just spitballing an idea, perhaps we could have a system or something where Seniors/Addicts/Mods can, at sometime during a given week, "vote" for a newbie/junior/member and whoever "wins" that week gets a promotion or ... a .. uh.... stick .... of... uh.... cheese? I certainly see the potential for elitism with this kind of idea and although it's not my intent, the potential is there and on the scale of thousands of users, I honestly don't think it will show up in the end. This idea would avoid the potential for hundreds of junk Newbie accounts setup in order to "vote". Just an idea.
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That could be a lot of fun, reading thousands of posts and selecting a winner.
No time! LOL
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6. July 2004 @ 08:27 |
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If we were going to have something like this, and I'm not convinced we should for the reasons others have mentioned, it would probably better to have something like a button at either the top or bottom of each post with a caption like "I Found This Post Helpful". The poster of the month could then be selected from the posts that got the most clicks. It's not necessarily more fair than other methods, but it would at least be an attempt to base it on how helpful a poster has been, and let's face it, that's the most important thing.
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Praetor
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6. July 2004 @ 08:32 |
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True but there is an incredible amount of "spam-voting" potential with that kind of idea :)
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6. July 2004 @ 09:09 |
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Very true, which is another problem with the idea in general. My biggest concern is that the Senior Members and Afterdawn Addicts would be the ones getting the award most of the time. I don't others to feel like the focus of the site is on a few people. In the end I just don't know that there's a good way to implement this in a way that wouldn't ultimately be counter-productive to the idea of having a friendly community of peers.
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6. July 2004 @ 09:34 |
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Yeah indeed which is why i would think it to be useful for the award to goto newbies/juniors/members only :)
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6. July 2004 @ 09:37 |
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No arguments there.
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6. July 2004 @ 14:26 |
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Something that I've wondered, it sorta has its roots in Slashdot/etc style, but with aD-specific twist.
Each post would have a subtle 1-5 easy-to-click quickie voting thingy above it (on the same bar where the other "stuff" is as well). Clicking a voting would add the vote (or in case of user not being logged in, it redirects user to login or register first, so no anonymous votes here) to the database. But. But the voting would also have priorities. Newbie votes for some post and votes for "2". This would get added once -- one vote and vote is "2" for post X. Ok, now Senior Member votes the same post and gives "3". But Senior Member has 5 times more "power" than Newbie, so the vote would actually be inserted 5 times to the database (to get the averages, etc correctly). So, now the post would have total of 6 votes: 2, 3, 3, 3, 3 and 3. Obviously one user can vote for one post only once.
After each month, a little scriptiethingythatisyettobecoded would go through every vote during that month, get the averages for each post and shows the results for "best post". But it could also be tweaked to show "best user" with somekinda funk-ee algorithm (whatever it would be? List only users with minimum of 10 messages during that month THAT have been voted for (each one of them) minimum of 10 times AND that have total average points more than 3.00 and order by the average points and get the top one?). Yes, I am a programmer..
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6. July 2004 @ 14:36 |
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Seems like a good idea however I would hope it would be one vote per "term" becuase it wouldnt really make sense to have multiple "bests" from one person (and again we have the potential for spam-accounts)
Now considering this to be post of the month, having one vote for the entire month .... would that make sense considering that we may not (a) be able to predict the future or (b) have the time to go over all the posts in the last month on the last day of the month?
Perhaps we can get one vote per week and then either (a) change it to poster of the week or (b) do it per originally planned but now with just 4 times the number of votes to process? :)
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List only users with minimum of 10 messages during that month THAT have been voted for (each one of them) minimum of 10 times AND that have total average points more than 3.00 and order by the average points and get the top one?)
Course we could make things interesting by adding (a) that the lowest voted score cannot be less than a 2 (b) there must be at least one vote from at least 2 "ranks", etc :) ... i'm a programmer too ... like to complicate things :P
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6. July 2004 @ 14:57 |
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I'd say each user can vote for as many posts as they ever want to, so there wouldn't be any limit on number of votes. That way, this would also eventually allow searches like "search only for posts with avg points of 3.00 or more".
I like the "exclude posts with votes less than 3" as well, it would nicely remove various attempts to manipulate the figures upwards. Specifically if the rule would be something like "exclude posts that have votes for less than 3 and those vote/s are made by users with status of Member or higher", which would sorta allow "more senior members" to act as "vote cops" by simply tagging b.s. posts by voting "1" for them.
And I agree, making life a complicated, but ah so full of boolean logic, hell is the deadly sin #1 of virtually all programmers :-)
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Praetor
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6. July 2004 @ 16:29 |
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I'd say each user can vote for as many posts as they ever want to, so there wouldn't be any limit on number of votes.
So I could vote for Person X ten times?
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6. July 2004 @ 16:54 |
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You could vote for 10 different posts by user X. The votes would be post-specific, not user specific. But the "user chart" could be created based on the votes for various posts by those users (as well as the chart for best forum posts).
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7. July 2004 @ 04:45 |
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Boss,
The search application was part of what I was thinking of with my suggestion, so I'm glad to see you're thinking the same thing ;)
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7. July 2004 @ 07:44 |
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Vurbal: Goody, I think the idea might be worth implementing. But as said, everything takes a loong time (as I'm the sole developer here and try to maintain various other aD -related tasks as well, in addition to "real life" commitments).
Btw. if I were you, I'd be slightly worried; when people start thinking the way i do, typically the local mental care specialists get involved with the case..
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7. July 2004 @ 08:00 |
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No big deal on the time. You'll get to it eventually, and I'd rather see it done right than fast. On the subject of mental health, I'd have said the same thing about thinking like me, but as my dad liked to say - Great minds run in the same gutter ;)
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7. July 2004 @ 08:32 |
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Iam really happy to see so many good ideas coming up for this one and so much support.Obviously this can not be done over night which we all appreciate.But this will give everyone a good chance to put all there thoughts and suggestions forward.I really do hope this one gets up and running.We always have a lot of people who do some great post's and i feel this will encourage more of the same.
Thanks
John179
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7. July 2004 @ 15:59 |
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The one issue I have about voting on a post is ... some threads are not solved by just one post. You all know of those threads where someone has a problem, and they do a very poor job of explaining. So to help we post suggestions (short answers). Then after a bunch of suggestions the problem may get solved ... so instead of one post, that member may have 6-10 posts(but was very helpful in that thread). If we allow ourselves to vote on various single posts, there could be the potential of a post that covers way too much information, which can then be cut and pasted in the threads they may apply to. Some people need one or two fixes, and some need more (and for those who need just one or two fixes, they shouldn't have to read through an excellent post on how to fix/change everything). <---- did this make sense :)
If you do wanna vote ... how about have a voting scale on how helpful that member was in a particular thread, and not his post.
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