Suggestion: PC Member of the Week/Month

[El Héroe Oscuro]

Because there is so much content that people produce, whether on a technological aspect like creating a game or just being an all-out good participant, or being a good friend to someone, it would be really cool to be able to highlight some PC member's accomplishments. To my knowledge I know there are some voting categories like Member of the Year at the end of the year, but I think it would be cool to do almost a year-round thing for the community. It could be open for anyone, where people could send nominations and then either a panel could vote on it or the community votes on it, and then maybe we could have a section on PC dedicated to showcase that person. Food for though! :]

edit: the current discussion as of now is possibly doing member of the season instead of week or month. Just wanted to put this in there in case someone jumps in and ends up repeating something that has already been said d:

 

[Puddle]

I suggested this before on an old account (Gfx) and a lot of people felt like it would just be a popularity contest. I never felt that way, but the majority did. However, I do believe the same people would start winning and stuff.

I even added emblems for the member of the month and stuff.

 

[Sirfetch’d]

Iirc, this was suggested before and personally I'm not too fond of the idea for a few reasons. One, it would take away from MotY and make that quite less significant. Secondly, I think it would turn into a popularity contest for the most popular user in the most popular forum, as it would be nearly impossible to know the activity of everyone and wouldn't give everyone a fair chance of winning. I don't think think this is a bad idea at all, but it just wouldn't work out as nicely as everyone thinks it might haha. Would inflate more egos and have butthurt people more often than that good that could possibly come out of it.

Just my thoughts on it though!

 

[Honest]

Year round as in monthly? It's a bad idea, trust me. MotM actually existed around... 09? But it was abolished because it was a popularity contest, and the same people would be nominated over and over and over again. Not that there is anything wrong with a popularity contest, but they should happen once in a blue moon, or yearly. Monthly contests are too soon in between. I'm not sure if there is a fail-safe method of actually putting a spotlight on people (which I'm entirely against, for the record), but if there is, Member of the Month is not the way to go about doing so.

 

[Sydian]

It's a good idea on paper, but not in practice. We have had Member of the Month before, and I continuously saw the same people winning every time. Not that most of them weren't good or anything, but you know, it gets a bit tiresome seeing other people winning and you have other members thinking "when will it be my turn?" or something.

Plus, I wouldn't want it to take away from Member of the Year. It's hard enough keeping up with that, but every month...not sure how y'all managed years ago, haha.

Member of the Season, like what EGC does, might be viable though. I'm personally not a big fan of these types of things, but if we were to do something like this (excluding member of the year), I think seasons are spread out well enough for it to not always be the same people winning.

 

[El Héroe Oscuro]

In a club that I'm currently in, we have something called "Peacemaker of the Week", where essentially anyone can be nominated, but once you win it once you can't win it again. That way you'll always have a fresh face in the spotlight.

 

[Hiatus]

Hm, well, I really like the idea of MotM, but if we do wind up going with it, I definitely think we should exempt members who've already won. If somebody had won a few categories in a Member of the Month contest, we could exclude this person from being voted for another three months or so. We could organize this as a list. That way, everyone will have a shot to grab the light. Some of you might be worrying that it'll take attention away from MotY, but I don't really see it happening. Both of them could co-exist. :]

 

[El Héroe Oscuro]

And I mean - I might make some people angry with this - but we could limit the participants to just general members, not PC Supporters nor Moderators. That way it will really open the possibilities to who may win, and I think it will be different each time. The VIP Forum could be used as the voting grounds if it was based on a "panel," or somewhere else for a general audience.

 

[Honest]

No offence, but I hate the logic that a different font means you're automatically more popular, because it doesn't. Talking more specifically about supporters than I am moderators. But that's going off on a tangent. I think we'd be going to far by not allowing supporters to play, but moderators being exempt from being candidates, in my eyes, seems fair. Whether people can admit it or not, the staff is looked up to and respected, which goes hand in hand with popularity. If we were to possibly bring about MotM or Member of the Season(?), then yeah, I'd like a rule like that to be included. Staff would skew the votes, unintentionally. That being said, perhaps we can have a staff MotM as well, so we don't feel left out... but that itself has its problems.

 

[El Héroe Oscuro]

No that's understandable about the PC Supporters. We are technically members just like everyone else. Just didn't know if you wanted to narrow the field even more was all, or needed some extra assistance in determining who would would be chosen.

 

[~Justified~]

Member of the week would be too chaotic and would just get out of control in my opinion, maybe member of the month if there was one for each forum (Like a member of the month for Emulation and Rom Hacking, member of the month for challenges, etc.), and previous winners obviously shouldn't be able to win again for MotM.

Just my opinion though:)

 

[Sydian]

If a person is popular, of course they're going to win in a certain category. Which is pretty much as it should be. o_O; Right? I mean a person becomes popular by posting around and being active and whatnot, don't they? So aren't those people the ones who should be winning these categories anyway? As opposed to say, someone who is "more deserving" but has only posted 4 times in the month. Doesn't the person who is demonstrating those qualities more deserve to win?

But where's the fun in it if the same people are winning every month? That's the issue, in my book. That is easily eliminated through saying, "Okay Audy won most fabulous last month, so he can't win it this month."

I still feel MotM is a bit too frequent. If we were going to start this again, I think Season (sorry EGC, best option possible I see lol) is best since it's more spread out since it's three months, not one. But tallying up everything all the time ugh.

 

[derozio]

Popularity contest as in certain circles voting only for certain members because best buds and all that shizz, audy.

As an example - there's this user A who makes quality posts in a certain section. But another user B with more friends is also among the nominees. Obviously, B's gonna get more votes even if A is actually more deserving. Or something.

Meh, I'm meh on the whole thing. Great if brought back. Fine if not.

Edit: support the idea of seasonal contest. With rule of no two consecutive wins.

 

[Honest]

It would lead to repetitive winners. If we decide to include the rule that winners can never re-enter, it'd prevent that, but over a year's time, we'd have 12 winners, and in two years, 24. One has to expect a decrease in actual quality when the 24th person get's chosen within the span of simply two years. My problem is that the time in between contests is MUCH too short to adequately select a single person who really deserves to be put in the limelight.

I have absolutely nothing against the fact that it's a popularity contest. My issue is how often we're doing them. Every year? Yes, the winner has had at least one month to show how amazing they are, in competition with what is probably a large pool of other people. Every month? No, because a month is not enough time for a person to prove they deserve such a title, in my opinion. Underdeveloped, if you will.

 

[El Héroe Oscuro]

Member of the week would be too chaotic and would just get out of control in my opinion, maybe member of the month if there was one for each forum (Like a member of the month for Emulation and Rom Hacking, member of the month for challenges, etc.), and previous winners obviously shouldn't be able to win again for MotM.

Just my opinion though:)

Maybe to make it a little bit easier for whoever is doing the panel/voting, instead of one for each forum like Challenges and ROMs, there can be one for each group forum so there would be 6 total:

• Official Forums (Annoucements, Q&A, Welcome Lounge)
• Current Generation Pokemon Gaming (X&Y, 5th Gen, Trade Corner, Battle Center)
• General Pokemon Gaming Discussions (Gaming, Challenges, 4th Gen, Advance Gen, Metal & Color)
• Alternative Pokemon Gaming Discussions (General, Anime, Clubs, Trivia, Cards)
• Creative Discussions (Art, Fan Fiction, Roleplay, Emulation, Game Dev)
• Entertainment & Hobbies (Culture, Video Games, Technology, Fan Clubs)
• Off-Topic Discussions (Chit Chat, Discussions, Forum Games)

Each could have a more clever title for the award and a unique emblem given pertaining to each main forum section, as many of these are similar in name.

 

[Sydian]

I know people have mentioned "taking away from MotY" and I want to expand on that by saying it does get boring doing this every month. I only proposed MotS as a sort of compromise, but even still, I'm totally fine with doing this thing once a year. I'd rather have one big end of the year sha-bang voting thing done extremely well than a bunch throughout the year.

Basically, quality over quantity.

 

[El Héroe Oscuro]

I know people have mentioned "taking away from MotY" and I want to expand on that by saying it does get boring doing this every month. I only proposed MotS as a sort of compromise, but even still, I'm totally fine with doing this thing once a year. I'd rather have one big end of the year sha-bang voting thing done extremely well than a bunch throughout the year.

Basically, quality over quantity.

But isn't Member of the Year way more elaborate? I wasn't a part of it last year, but it wasn't just MotY I recall, but all these other different subcategories that went along with it. While this would be nominating a person for specific achievements, it wouldn't necessarily be touching those things that made MotY so special.

If it's time that's the biggest issue, than make it Member of the Season. I think Member of the Month is plenty of time, but if people thing more time is needed than 3 months is plenty of time.

 

[Honest]

Maybe to make it a little bit easier for whoever is doing the panel/voting, instead of one for each forum like Challenges and ROMs, there can be one for each group forum so there would be 6 total:

• Official Forums (Annoucements, Q&A, Welcome Lounge)
• Current Generation Pokemon Gaming (X&Y, 5th Gen, Trade Corner, Battle Center)
• General Pokemon Gaming Discussions (Gaming, Challenges, 4th Gen, Advance Gen, Metal & Color)
• Alternative Pokemon Gaming Discussions (General, Anime, Clubs, Trivia, Cards)
• Creative Discussions (Art, Fan Fiction, Roleplay, Emulation, Game Dev)
• Entertainment & Hobbies (Culture, Video Games, Technology, Fan Clubs)
• Off-Topic Discussions (Chit Chat, Discussions, Forum Games)

Each could have a more clever title for the award and a unique emblem given pertaining to each main forum section, as many of these are similar in name.

I can only speak for the section my forum (Chit Chat) falls into, but I don't like this. In MotY, we have two separate ballots, a universal one, and a forum specific one. Universal works because it targets general things, like "best male" or "most likely to make meth" lol. Forum specific works, because they would focus on a single section of PC, where the pool of contestants were similar in someways.

The way you listed the sections don't work, because not all the sub-sections mesh well enough to come up with categories that would embody every single sub-section. Chit Chat and Debates, for example, despite their similarities, are different in terms of how each place is executed, and your method would require us to make spots that would fit for both. Which doesn't work.

 

[Sydian]

It is more elaborate, yes, but there's always the general Favorite girls, boys, mods, higher staff, pairing, etc. Doing that every month would get repetitive, even if we don't allow consecutive winners. Like I said before, I think Season is a better time frame, because there's more time to observe other members and get your mind off the previous MotS.

I still don't really want these to return because running them ahhh!! But if it were to make a comeback, I think doing it every season, and of course the yearly, would be the best way to go. I hope you don't feel like I'm trying to shut you out or anything, by the way. Just expressing my concerns and such. I do appreciate the suggestion, cause it's been brought up before so it shows that there really must be a desire for this.

 

[Hiatus]

It would lead to repetitive winners. If we decide to include the rule that winners can never re-enter, it'd prevent that, but over a year's time, we'd have 12 winners, and in two years, 24. One has to expect a decrease in actual quality when the 24th person get's chosen within the span of simply two years. My problem is that the time in between contests is MUCH too short to adequately select a single person who really deserves to be put in the limelight.

If somebody winds up wining, I just don't think it'd be a good idea to exempt them forever as you're mentioning here. x_x" It'd be okay, though, if we did it only for a certain amount of time (three months, maybe, like I said before). We don't necessarily have to worry about quality, if you ask me; we have tons of people signing-up every year, so if we run out of people to vote for, there would always be new ones who are just as good and deserving. It's how it is, you know? Not only PokéCommunity; same goes for pretty much all forums around Internet. People come and go. Some impress, grab attention, and become liked by others throughout the community.

I still feel MotM is a bit too frequent. If we were going to start this again, I think Season (sorry EGC, best option possible I see lol) is best since it's more spread out since it's three months, not one. But tallying up everything all the time ugh.

Yup, making it a monthly thing is definitely too frequent. I'm all for having it become seasonal. d: