Member Of The Month

[Kraco]

Everybody has temp rep (except some new people who have no rep). The rep comes and goes, so some of it is always temp. And considering there are no default sigs or avatars (unless you count emptiness), Assertn also has those customized. He also has his name in a list of somekind, the mods list... (har har).

Seriously, though, I think a custom title (chosen by the winner himself) is pretty much the only viable prize there could be. If the admins are willing to grant such to an ordinary member. When even the mods have only a boring "moderator" title instead of one of their own choosing, I'm not so sure they are happy with the idea of dealing out those.

[Yukimura]

I'm a fan of the shit poster of the month idea, I love reading bad things and laughing at the ass that wrote them. However I either have no sense of judgement or rarely browse forums with bad posters, since I rarely see posts that I think are really bad, except noobs who didn't read the rules and don't have a lick of common sense (I didn't read all the rules, but I don't think it's that hard to not be an idiot).

However, back to good poster of the month, even if their's no "good" prize for the winner, just recognizing them and displaying why they are a good poster might be a help to other people who want to be good posters. I've been trying to figure out what makes a post good and useful since I got here and I fall on my ass all the time, a big recognizeable role model might help others in similar situations.

[Deadfire]

Lame. I already have most of those things

LOL, I wish i did

Also, can a mod even be a winner?

It's possible

Everybody has temp rep (except some new people who have no rep). The rep comes and goes, so some of it is always temp. And considering there are no default sigs or avatars (unless you count emptiness), Assertn also has those customized. He also has his name in a list of somekind, the mods list... (har har).

Seriously, though, I think a custom title (chosen by the winner himself) is pretty much the only viable prize there could be. If the admins are willing to grant such to an ordinary member. When even the mods have only a boring "moderator" title instead of one of their own choosing, I'm not so sure they are happy with the idea of dealing out those.

Well, you are right being limited with the resources on hand, sort of doesn't leave much to think about. Look at it this way, a prize is what you make it, what ever it is. Sort of like life is what you make of it, If you go to a movie thinking its crap you will come out thinking the same. The point I guess is what ever the prize turns out to be it's up to the end-user to think it's worth it

I'm a fan of the shit poster of the month idea, I love reading bad things and laughing at the ass that wrote them. However I either have no sense of judgement or rarely browse forums with bad posters, since I rarely see posts that I think are really bad, except noobs who didn't read the rules and don't have a lick of common sense (I didn't read all the rules, but I don't think it's that hard to not be an idiot).

However, back to good poster of the month, even if their's no "good" prize for the winner, just recognizing them and displaying why they are a good poster might be a help to other people who want to be good posters. I've been trying to figure out what makes a post good and useful since I got here and I fall on my ass all the time, a big recognizeable role model might help others in similar situations.

On the first point I agree but me and the other Mods can't just leave these posts un-edited and let everyone flame the living daylights out of him. There will be a issue, with no good side to look at it. Of course making like a "wall of shame" to display those posts us Mods have found to be the worst posts ever made here, that idea I wouldn't have any problems with. On your second point A good poster does raise the bar, and recognizing this is one of those things I wanted to get across with this idea. If everyone gave a little more effort in their posts not to be shit, everyone would follow. Their maybe those that don't but for the most part it helps the forum finding new members that will be more likely to post like the rest of the forum.

[ChaosK]

Everybody has temp rep (except some new people who have no rep). The rep comes and goes, so some of it is always temp.

I think Deadfire meant temp inflated rep...like an extra stacked 500 or something, that nobody could subtract from for the month, though I'm not sure where he was going with this.

And considering there are no default sigs or avatars (unless you count emptiness)

I thought this meant a sig+ava showing advertising the person is the best/shittiest poster of the month.

[Kraco]

I think the sig/avatar meant that one of the badass gifted people here would volunteer to make a nice new combo for the winner. However, there are still lots of people here who simply prefer to make their own just for the fun of doing it.

Well, I was just screwing around with that post of mine, anyway. A bad habit. To be serious, temp rep has the drawback that if it's temp, it will be taken away at some point. I don't know how nice it would be to get 500 boost, and then after a month lose it. Losing it would probably suck more than getting it gladdened.

[ChaosK]

I'm just explaining what I think he meant...as far as I'm concerned it seems like Deadfire is trying anything as a prize.

[mage]

Losing it would probably suck more than getting it gladdened.

you think so?

[XanBcoo]

I think that the winner should receive a temporary custom title. A custom title seems to be a really good prize imo, but if this is really a monthly thing, then after a few months everyone and their dog would have a custom title. Giving out a title like "Member of the Month" to each month's winner would be cool, just so long as they lost it when the next winner was chosen.

[xDarkMaster]

The problem with a custom title is that soon anyone that's anyone will have a custom title when they reach 2500 rep. This is also assuming that no noobs will win, so for a reg poster to win this would be useless.

[Kraco]

Dunno. I have visited forums where custom titles are either free to choose right from the beginning, or after some post count, or where admins dictate them independently for the members, without colsulting the recipients (this produces quite interesting and crazy results). To be frank, it's more interesting than the regular system, which is in use here. After all, custom titles are creativity whereas a purely post count dependent system is just another post count meter, and thus kind of redundant once you have seen all the available titles.

Edit: Uh... I realise this wasn't exactly an appropriate response to your post, xDarkMaster, now that I read it more carefully. Well, anyway, 2500 is quite high a number...

[XanBcoo]

The problem with a custom title is that soon anyone that's anyone will have a custom title when they reach 2500 rep. This is also assuming that no noobs will win, so for a reg poster to win this would be useless.

That's why I think it's a good idea to have a specialized custom title (or even an avatar or sig) for the winner. Something that says "I won the member/worst poster of the month contest this month". That way it would separate itself from all the other custom titles out there. If the prize was permanent, we'd get more and more people with custom titles, larger sigs, special privillages, or what have you every single month (or whenever this contest would take place).

I dunno, I don't think any permanent prize would be a good idea because with a contest like this after a while it wouldn't be special anymore - assuming its held more than once.

A Custom title has its ups as well, and yes if we start handing them out every month it will get to a point that almost everyone would have one. Thus making something like this useless. Everyone right now would love this type of thing right now, however the vice makes this a little harder to do as we look at it more

I think you missed the point of my suggestion. I was using the custom title as an example, but what I'm saying could be used for any prize. Yeah, you "start handing out" prizes to the winners, but take the prize away when a new winner is chosen, making it relevent only to the current winner. That way you wouldn't have an overflow of people with special privillages after only a few months.