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Scytheteen November 3rd, 2007 4:05 PM

What ever happened to the so called "PC elections"?
 
Okay I was reading something and it said we used to have PC elections, what ever happened to them and what were they?

Cherrim November 4th, 2007 1:09 AM

They were kind of pointless in the sense that all it was was a glorified popularity contest--we already have one of those, more or less (MotM), so we scrapped the idea after doing it twice. It was just too much work to be worth the staff's while. :\

Scytheteen November 4th, 2007 5:47 AM

Well what was it? Was it people who elected other members to be on staff?

Eon-Rider November 4th, 2007 5:50 AM

Sort of but not for staff. It was more of a popularity contest. The winner became President and the runner-up became Vice-President. They each received some powers normal members had no access to.

Scytheteen November 4th, 2007 5:51 AM

Thats pretty cool...I wish they still had them...

P.S what were these "special powers" and did they get a cool thing next to their avatar?

Memory November 4th, 2007 6:49 AM

Well, think about how long it would take, with how many people would vote today at PC that will, think about how long it would take to sort and count all of those votes. It'd be too much time. o.O

Chibi-chan November 4th, 2007 8:15 AM

I miss PC elections! They were so much fun and it was pretty much a huge community event. Even though it could be called a popularity contest, people got to know each other better, right? :3 I still have some of my 'Vote for Paul' buttons....

I wish it'd come back; there wasn't any real harm in it.

Azonic November 4th, 2007 8:28 AM

What were these "Special Powers" anyways? liek wat can ppl do with these powers?

Sammi November 4th, 2007 8:29 AM

I think the only really special thing was their colored username.

They might have seen invisible users as well, I remember someone mentioning it, but that might have gotten taken away from them at one point.

Tsugaru November 4th, 2007 8:35 AM

I remember those, wasn't there also at one stage a Skin Making contest where who ever made the best skin, was able to view the Skin Testing section of the forum etc. As for the Elections, I thought they where such an awesome idea back at them time, it would be actually cool to bring them back.

Many people participated and it just helped people get to know each other better as Chibi-chan stated. As for the powers, I think I remember hearing that they could have a colored username and access to some of the invisible boards, such as the Skin testing board. I'm not 100% sure, if someone can correct me, please do so.

Scytheteen November 4th, 2007 8:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Tsugaru (Post 3048020)
I remember those, wasn't there at one stage a Skin Making contest where who ever made the best skin, was able to view the Skin Testing section of the forum etc. As for the Elections, I thought they where such an awesome idea back at them time, it would be actually quite cool to bring them back.

Many people participated and it just helped people get to know each other better as Chibi-chan stated. As for the powers, I think I remember hearing that they could have a colored username and access some of the visible boards, such as the Skin testing board. I'm not 100% sure, if someone can correct me, please do so.

that sounds so cool, I vote we should bring them back!

Memory November 4th, 2007 8:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScytheMaster (Post 3048029)
that sounds so cool, I vote we should bring them back!

As I said before, if you didn't completely ignore my post, it would take way, way, -way- to long to sort and count all of the votes for such small prizes.

Scytheteen November 4th, 2007 8:55 AM

I read your post, but if you got a lot of mods/admins to count the votes, then maybe it will speed it up.

Chibi-chan November 4th, 2007 8:57 AM

Just do a simple poll. Great way to count the votes, yesh?

Anti November 4th, 2007 9:20 AM

Eh, I don't know. It kinda does sound like MotM, and we have enough popularity contests at school...

It sure sounded like they were fun. Meh. I'm not a staff member, so I wouldn't know, but vote counting can't be easy just ask the state of Florida and Jeb Bush

But the poll option sounds interesting...

Tsugaru November 4th, 2007 9:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anti-Pop Culture Warrior 13 (Post 3048170)

But the poll option sounds interesting...

Just on the Poll thing, I think Chibi was saying that the poll system in vBulletin automatically counts who voted for what, just so you didn't know. So it wouldn't be hard at all to count how many people voted.

Chibi-chan November 4th, 2007 9:37 AM

I suggest just a normal thread, put all of the candidates that are running into different rounds, and have an anonymous vote through that.
So then there will be voting brackets until two people are left to vote for.
Just like how the old Best Anime contest was.

Scytheteen November 4th, 2007 9:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chibi-chan (Post 3048217)
I suggest just a normal thread, put all of the candidates that are running into different rounds, and have an anonymous vote through that.
So then there will be voting brackets until two people are left to vote for.
Just like how the old Best Anime contest was.

yeah thats a really good idea chibi!

Tsugaru November 4th, 2007 9:56 AM

But don't we first need permission to do it first though? The Admins have to agree to bring them back, allow the colored names back etc.

Cherrim November 4th, 2007 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chibi-chan (Post 3048098)
Just do a simple poll. Great way to count the votes, yesh?

If it were as easy as that, we would've done it like that to begin with. D: Unfortunately, to avoid cheating, we instated the "one vote per IP rule" so people wouldn't just create extra accounts to vote. Unless there's a plugin for that, the only way to count that is to manually tally each vote and cross-reference every IP as you do it. I counted the first election and it took me an insane amount of time to do it.

But, never say never. If there really is a demand to bring it back, we can certainly discuss the possibility and see what we can do. :P I don't want to be too negative.

Chibi-chan November 4th, 2007 10:30 AM

People really did multiple accounts to cheat like that? o.0
That's a bit extremist....

Well, if anyone can think of a less stressful way, it'd be great to have it back.

Wish November 4th, 2007 3:50 PM

Meh, I was there when it happened. It was kinda pointless when you think about it. I remember my friend Cybex Mewtwo winning Vice. I really didn't know what other advantages there were to being president besides the colored username.

Scales November 4th, 2007 4:25 PM

It really sounds like to much of a hassle to get a simple popularity contest. I mean come on is it really that much trouble to have a simple colored user name for a small amount of time and have the ability to do some simple things? Besides isn't there already MOTM?

Arcanine November 4th, 2007 7:43 PM

Just to set everyone straight.
The PC President, and Vice President had NO powers what so ever. The only difference was they had a colored name, and a larger PM box (no powers, no extra forums, no nothing). Other then them things they were normal members.

I think Erica pretty much said everything else that needed to be known. XD

Tsugaru November 5th, 2007 2:36 AM

Just wondering, Arcanine but is there a possibility of it being brought back to life? As for the cheating story, you should ask Audy about that, I'm sure he can figure something out as he's a forum genius(Not saying other Admins aren't but Audy really REALLY knows his stuff). I'll also have a look around on vBulletin.org

Edit:Here is one or two I found that might be of help, If I find any more I'll post them. I'm not 100% sure if these will make any difference, just a thought.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=125871&highlight=Address
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=127045&highlight=Address ---> Works in partnership with the first one.


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