Suggestions for...of the Week Threads

[SeraphiM]

I have seen an increase number of these threads lately.
Most have difficulty coming up with nominations and have become very hard to keep track of (as a few of you have pointed out already).
I enjoy these threads very much, because I believe that they encourage members to participate here on the forum and more importantly members can feel like part of the community.
I can still remember when I was chosen as MOTW. It was a nice feeling to be honored by my fellow members.

Maybe a change in format would help put these threads back on track?
I suggest changing them from weekly threads to monthly threads.
This will do 2 things. It will increase the quality and number of the nominations. This will also greaten the value of the award it's self.
I would also be willing to talk to the other Mods, Super Mods and Admin. to see if we could include a bonus of freeones points to the winner.
Any ideas or comments?

 

[RogueWolf]

Re: Suggestion for...of the Week Threads

I understand what you're saying Seraphim...but...

MOTW was the original and the best of all these threads. Personally...I don't see any need or reason for him to change what has been working very well for him.

As far as all the others...I say let 'natural selection' work. If the other threads die out due to lack of interest...so be it.

 

[member2686]

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Ditto, RogueWolf.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - where does it end? Ass of the week? Cumshot of the week? Avatar of the week? Ass of the week? Most rep garnered by a member of the week? Most rep given by a member of the week? Best breasts of the week? Longest post of the week? Most incomprehensible post of the week? Most funny pic/vid of the week?

It never seems to end, and people seem to want to "own" these polls/threads for self-serving purposes, in some cases, and that's where I agree with you 100%

juballs started and created an original thread - all others are copies. :2 cents:

Let "Board Darwinism" prevail.

:hatsoff:

I understand what you're saying Seraphim...but...

MOTW was the original and the best of all these threads. Personally...I don't see any need or reason for him to change what has been working very well for him.

As far as all the others...I say let 'natural selection' work. If the other threads die out due to lack of interest...so be it.

 

[Jacksson_77]

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I'm for "year of the week". Damn, 2006 has been the best year of this week so far! :1orglaugh

SCNR

:hatsoff: Jackson

 

[stek1983]

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"Member of the Week"!
that is all we need, the others ones are just stupid to be honest.

but before we say goodbye to these other "...of the Week" threads... what do you guys think the "...of the Week" Thread of the Week has been?

 

[poggy]

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Ditto, RogueWolf.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - where does it end? Ass of the week? Cumshot of the week? Avatar of the week? Ass of the week? Most rep garnered by a member of the week? Most rep given by a member of the week? Best breasts of the week? Longest post of the week? Most incomprehensible post of the week? Most funny pic/vid of the week?

It never seems to end, and people seem to want to "own" these polls/threads for self-serving purposes, in some cases, and that's where I agree with you 100%

juballs started and created an original thread - all others are copies. :2 cents:

Let "Board Darwinism" prevail.

:hatsoff:

Now I know for a fact Fly that you've wanted a '....... of the Week' based just on the 'talk section'.Then McRocket created 'Post of the Week' which was just that,which I took over when he left.The first thing you did when he started it was criticise it and that is all you've done since too.

You now say that Juballs MOTW thread is the original and the others are copies!.So your been a little two faced IMO.So why did you say you wanted a '....... of the Week' based on the 'talk section' if all you was going to do was criticise it from the first post ?
I know you say it complicated but how so 5 days of nominating,2 days of voting sounds simple to me!.

I wasn't going to do this as I count you as a friend,but again you bring something forward into the open without telling the whole story.So come on own up and tell the whole truth for all to see.As you originally told me that MOTW should be based just on posts in the 'talk section'.But as you knew that wasn't going to happen,you stated that someone should do one for just that.

Sorry to bring this out into the open,as you did this originally in private with me.But your not telling everyone everything in your :2 cents: quotes!

Sorry Fly!.


For my own opinions on this are MOTW & POTW can run weekly but due to people criticising the latter at the moment.We only have 2 nominations this week and it's a fore gone conclusion which of them 2 would win.Also in fact only 5 people posted in it this week and one of them saying that POTW should be closed for good.

I'd like opinions on if it should continue or not please.

As for the other '...... of the week' threads I think they should be monthly.Example how many times do most members change there sig's ?.
As for the points, no the honour of carrying the title is enough.As I was MOTW a few weeks ago for the first time and felt proud to be honoured by my friends was enough.

 

[pussy+dickdenice]

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I'd like opinions on if it should continue or not please.

As for the other '...... of the week' threads I think they should be monthly.Example how many times do most members change there sig's ?.
As for the points, no the honour of carrying the title is enough.As I was MOTW a few weeks ago for the first time and felt proud to be honoured by my friends was enough.

IMO It should continue.

I get to see the best posts in one place. Like 'Britain revokes US independence' came to my sight, which was one of the best, through this thread. Some of us would miss good posts if they are not stuck under our nose through a thread like this.

Whether monthly or weekly. I feel it should remain as it is. Less clutter in nomination may motivate me to write better in future. Please note 'may'.

Giving bonus points for nomination is a brilliant idea. Didn't I say, you are a colourful person, Seraphim. (Director, You didn't choose your secretary, yet).

 

[Imagine]

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The only one of these I wouldn't mind seeing is "New Member of the Week". I'd say that's just about the only one that will do what Seraphim suggested without the inevitable risk of bias.

As for the rest, as I've said before, I don't care. As long as it doesn't fill the screen with threads I won't read, you can do whatever you want. I just hope you people realize that they mean very little and treat them as such.

 

[Gordar]

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I would also be willing to talk to the other Mods, Super Mods and Admin. to see if we could include a bonus of freeones points to the winner.
Any ideas or comments?

Euh... No! Even though there are a lot of good posters on this board, it's always been a select few who've become member of the week until now, and I don't see a big change in the near future. This would mean that a select few posters would amass a large amount of freeones points, which is not really fair towards the other posters on this board.

If someone makes X amounts of posts & is rewarded for that, I can understand & agree with it, because it's their own achievement & other people can do it as well (post a lot of decent posts (not spam)).

 

[poggy]

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The only one of these I wouldn't mind seeing is "New Member of the Week". I'd say that's just about the only one that will do what Seraphim suggested without the inevitable risk of bias.

How can POTW be biased as it's done purely on a nominating system by members and voting by members All I do is manage it! So it's the members who decide it.
As MOTW it is picked by one member Juballs!

 

[Imagine]

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I haven't examined POTW, but I'm guessing it does or will suffer from the same problem as MOTW apparently does (although I haven't exactly done an in-depth analysis there either); that the nomination and voting is done by a small group of people. As such, I believe it's more likely that the results are based more on the popularity of the person than the content of a specific post or sum of posts during the week.

 

[poggy]

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I haven't examined POTW, but I'm guessing it does or will suffer from the same problem as MOTW apparently does (although I haven't exactly done an in-depth analysis there either); that the nomination and voting is done by a small group of people. As such, I believe it's more likely that the results are based more on the popularity of the person than the content of a specific post or sum of posts during the week.

Well I'll say this to you.Anyone can nominate and vote in it and it not a popularity contests as it's done purely on the quality of the post.But it does have one problem as I've stated in my first post on this thread.

 

[Imagine]

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Anyone can, the question is if anyone does. Furthermore, people are biased. They will view posts that they agree with or by someone they like more favorably than a post they disagree with or by someone they don't like or don't know. This can be partially fixed by having a lot of people participate as that'll bring in people from both ends of the spectrum, this creating an average. I counted 17 people posting in the POTW thread, give or take a few (most of which I suspected would be there and nominated people I suspected they would, I might add). Hardly enough to be statistically significant.

 

[poggy]

Re: Suggestion for...of the Week Threads

Anyone can, the question is if anyone does. Furthermore, people are biased. They will view posts that they agree with or by someone they like more favorably than a post they disagree with or by someone they don't like or don't know. This can be partially fixed by having a lot of people participate as that'll bring in people from both ends of the spectrum, this creating an average. I counted 17 people posting in the POTW thread, give or take a few (most of which I suspected would be there and nominated people I suspected they would, I might add). Hardly enough to be statistically significant.

That is why I've posted the question in my first post on here too.As it seems to be getting ignored by everyone!

 

[tunsty]

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Can I be controversial for a moment..

Why don't we just scrap the whole idea?
There are quite enough opportunities on the board to spread goodwill as it is..
We have individual rep to give and the rep collectors threads, we should just leave it at that...
Otherwise we will end up with Freeones becoming a 'love-in' board, rather than a message board.

 

[poggy]

Re: Suggestion for...of the Week Threads

Can I be controversial for a moment..

Why don't we just scrap the whole idea?
There are quite enough opportunities on the board to spread goodwill as it is..
We have individual rep to give and the rep collectors threads, we should just leave it at that...
Otherwise we will end up with Freeones becoming a 'love-in' board, rather than a message board.

Now that is a thread that should be scrapped IMO.The Offical rep collectors thread,as people are congratulating on any old number WTF I can understand 100,500,1000,1500,2500,5000 and so on but come on 200,300,400 and so on whats special about them.

 

[member2686]

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Poggy, you're right. I DO think member of the week should be restricted to the "Talk/Funny Pics" fora.

Any idiot can log on, lurk, collect pics and post links in the "find your fave babe forum." Sure, members enjoy those links, but they're links and usually links alone; dropping a bucket of apples for people to grab is far different from actually planting the apple tree, IMO.

"Hey guys! Check this out! New to me!"

www.ilovecumshots.com1
www.ilovecumshots.com2
www.ilovecumshots.com3
www.ilovecumshots.com4
www.ilovecumshots.com5

Well, that's not a MOW type of post, or POW-level type of post either, in my opinion.

:2 cents: :nanner: :hatsoff:

 

[poggy]

Re: Suggestion for...of the Week Threads

Poggy, you're right. I DO think member of the week should be restricted to the "Talk/Funny Pics" fora.

Any idiot can log on, lurk, collect pics and post links in the "find your fave babe forum." Sure, members enjoy those links, but they're links and usually links alone; dropping a bucket of apples for people to grab is far different from actually planting the apple tree, IMO.

"Hey guys! Check this out! New to me!"

www.ilovecumshots.com1
www.ilovecumshots.com2
www.ilovecumshots.com3
www.ilovecumshots.com4
www.ilovecumshots.com5

Well, that's not a MOW type of post, or POW-level type of post either, in my opinion.

:2 cents: :nanner: :hatsoff:

But Fly my friend you still haven't answered my question on POTW.

Why did you criticise it from day one,as it based exactly on what you want ?

 

[pussy+dickdenice]

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Anyone can, the question is if anyone does. Furthermore, people are biased. They will view posts that they agree with or by someone they like more favorably than a post they disagree with or by someone they don't like or don't know. This can be partially fixed by having a lot of people participate as that'll bring in people from both ends of the spectrum, this creating an average. I counted 17 people posting in the POTW thread, give or take a few (most of which I suspected would be there and nominated people I suspected they would, I might add). Hardly enough to be statistically significant.

That's what life is. A person chooses the best option to the best of his ability.

You do the same in your life too. But any appreciation by others will make it little better for you.

If only one appriciates you, you'd feel that is enough. Then numbers don't count at that time. Though statistically it will be insignificant.

But what you insinuate in your post questions 17 persons integrity. I think that is not done.

 

[Imagine]

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I don't question the integrity of 17 people. I'm questioning the integrity of all people. Everyone is biased. Some more than others. That includes those 17 people. I don't blame them for it, that's how the world works. That doesn't mean they should think that 17 people (less, actually) saying a specific post is the best one actually means that the post is the best one, which is essentially what the thread is all about. Any number of people will not be able to claim that, but at least a larger sample will make it less inaccurate.

People want to feel appreciated, I've got no problem with that, but if you need a title (meaningless at that) to somehow prove it, it's pretty sad. I've never been a big fan of rewarding popularity as being popular is the reward itself. It's sort of like giving a raise to some guy because he has the highest salary.