Fourm Awards

[Krystal Zanguzen]

On another fourm I go to, they have an interesting event called the "Fourm Awards", which are a series of different awards presented to the members of the fourm. It is an event done once a year to reward many members that go on the fourm.

First, a thread is made to decide nominies for each catagory. No more then four accounts to an award. The accounts with the top four votes become the nomonies. Then, once the nomonies are choosen, a new thread is made where every can vote on the nomonies. Here is a list of their awards.

Catagories:

*Awards based on account*

-Best Avatar
-Best Sig

*Awards based on character*

-Best Background/History
-Most Creative Name
-Best Personality
-The Goodest of the Goodies
-Best Badest of the Baddies
-Most Creative Design
-Cutest Couple
-Worst Couple
-Cutest Pup
-Most Romantic

*Awards for Admins*
(This would include only Drappas, Draggas and Gods)

-Most Organized Pack
-Most Disorganized Pack
-Most Friendliest/Well Liked Admin
-Most Respected Admin
-Wimpiest Admin
-Most Hated Admin

*Super Special Awards*

-Biggest Suck Up Award
-Worst Poster Award
-Spammiest Poster Award
-Best Thread Starter
-Best Poster Award

Along with the title, accounts that won an award would also win a certain prize. On the other fourm I go to, this would usually be things such as points, become a mod, a free avatar or sig made for them, placed in hall of fame, have access to restricted areas of fourm, ect... I think that this would be a great idea to have on The Sight.

The only draw back I can think off, is exactly what prizes would be given out on this fourm, and some people may have more then one account and try to cheat by voting for their own accounts using their others. But aside from that, I think it's a great idea, and a big motivator to all members to do well.

*Is open to opinion*

[Zostar]

Well, this does seem like an interesting idea, but Krystal.. to make these 'forum awards', we would be copying from the site that you saw them on. On this site, we try to be more original while still sticking to the basics of the book The Sight by David Clement-Davies (Basically just religion, gods, wolfspeak, and packs). Also, realise that the only awards that the gods, Draggas, and Drappas have to offer are posting points, and I would never give posting points to most of the listed awards. Another thing I would like to point out: there are 23 topics for awards, and only 4 varg per topic may receive this award. 23 x 4 = 92. In other words, we would be awarding a large majority of the members of this site. But then what happens to the ones who don't receive an award? That's a way to lower one's self esteem, to make a member feel as if they are not appreciated within this forum. Sorry, but your idea has many, many flaws, though I'm not going to list all of them for your sake.

This is my opinion, though the other members/gods/alphas might have different views. Remember that everyone is free to give their imput.

[Krystal Zanguzen]

I probably should have mentioned that the same account can be nominated for more than one award. Which cuts down that "92" thing. But you do have a point in terms of the total amount of members on this Fourm. The total number of members on the other fourm is 14,000 last time i checked.

As for the prize thing, I suppose you're right. But let's just see what others have to say about it.

[Mayan]

This is about like something we used to do on the "old" site. (pre-deletion era.) Somebody would put something up in the Contest board like "Best Poster," or "Sexiest Varg Ever" (I'm not kidding!) Except these were not for points. Everyone would just have a lot of fun submitting names of those they thought fit the bid. It was nothing formal and wasn't on any sort of schedule; everythign was in fun. I like Krystal's basic idea, but I don't think it should be for points or prizes. That way nobody feels cheated or hurt. I also think some of those threads should get started again on the Contest board, and that anyone should be able to start a thread there. (Can we already?) Okay. Now that I've dumped my two cents in, what do you think?

[Krystal Zanguzen]

I see. Sexiest Varg? lol. Sounds like I missed alot ^_- Which brings me to my next question, can anyone post in the contest boards, or is it only for Gods? The only contest I see their is the caption contest. Which is ok, but the contest boards need more variety (sp?)

[Sedregantis]

I personnaly liked the idea exept not for prives just so you can recieve some recognition

[Krystal Zanguzen]

I suppose that can work too. But question, if the former TS allowed such contests as described by Mayan, then why not now?

[Nahma]

they should have the colest varg one! I like the suck up award!*yips* thats funny!