Of all the arguments that I have heard so far this brings up a very good point and one I didn't think of. Sometimes you need other people's opinions.
I thought you were referring to people voting for themselves. Not that you didn't make good points either in the thread in the Staff forum. EDIT: Yeah you did make that point too now that I look back. Sorry for not crediting you as well.
After giving it further thought I have gone ahead and amended the changes to just one. I have edited the first post to reflect the only change that will take place. Thank you to the members who gave me their feedback on this. Sometimes you just need a different opinion to steer you in the right direction.
BUMP.....This is still going on, to me it shows a complete lack of clbutt. Shouldn't it be up to everyone else to judge how much you contibute or what have you instead of nominating yourself for an award? Then the next issue would be someone nominating a person in which they have no buisness being nominated for. (Walnuts nomination of Dougerrr for the Pimp award)among many others. The awards for the most part have turned into a joke (even though I like the idea) and will continue to be more than likely until some rules are tweaked to fix the problem. I still like the scenario where the mods and admins get together and do the nominations and allow the members to vote on those selected. It just gives the whole idea more credibility.:2cents:
Make it so only moderators can nominate. They should get together (virtually not literally) for 10 minutes every month and decide between them who the nominees should be.
People like Walnuts try to make the awards a joke and might end up taking the nominating process out of members hands. I am thinking of either making it where only moderators can nominate people and even where only VIP members can vote, that way we don't see a rush of people registering simply to vote.
At this point I definitely think a change is in order. What should be a fun way to get members involved has just become a mad barrage of people nominating anyone and everyone for reasons only they could possibly know and are in no way deserving of that award.
It cracks me up when threads for the Donovan McNabb award become a pissing contest where someone gets offended they got nominated to they nominate the person who nominated them right away. Walnuts though is just being stupid and he's single handedly tried to ruin the voting each month, I guess he just needs to be the "I'm too cool for the room" guy.
Whatever happened to the awards with the x2 and x3 next to them when we had phpBB? It prob'ly look a bit neater with people that have 10+ awards...
I don't really have that big of a problem voting for yourself......It's the nominating yourself for the award which screams "lack of class". If someone else nominated you then you should feel free to vote for yourself......I'm sure President-elects don't vote for the other guy!:icon_cheesygrin:
I'm not trying to ruin anything, just trying to inject a little humor and lightness into something you guys take way too seriously. Plus, it's not like any of my nominations have made a difference in the final voting anyway, so why get so uptight about it?
Well why not nominate someone who is actually deserving? It's not that we take it serious but members enjoy the awards so why heck it up for them?
I'm not freaking anything up for anybody except DolphinDude who seems to have taken exception with it. As I said, none of the "less-than-serious" nominations I have made (and they don't all fall into that category) have affected any final voting, so why worry about it? The only problem I see potentially affecting the voting is, as SRW pointed out earlier, an influx of people registering just in order to vote for whoever asked them to do so. I wasn't aware of that problem until he mentioned it, but other than that, it's members voting for members and nobody is going to vote for someone they think is less than deserving, so I don't see how throwing an off-the-wall nomination out is a problem for anyone or takes anything away from the process.
