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Question: What happened to member of the month?

No one has asked Chibi-chan if they could make it in a while now. But I doubt one for march would be allowed right now seeing as how the month is almost over.
 
I think its a good idea, although i never heard of it here.
 
In my opinion a week is more then enough to vote on MOTM, seeing that the thread is skyrocketing the first week, then it semi dies for what is left of the month, and if you want MOTM up so much why don't you PM Chibi and ask her if you can host it?

I would happily offer to host MOTM if one didn't have to count all those vote at the end..
 
Zet said:
No one has asked Chibi-chan if they could make it in a while now. But I doubt one for march would be allowed right now seeing as how the month is almost over.
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I asked Chibi for March, she said no. I asked her for April and I'm still waiting for a response... About 15 days later. >>
 
To be honest, I don't mind that MOTM has fallen out of use. I've always felt it's a roughly stacked competition where all the same people win consistently. Mainly a popularity contest.

Honestly, I think a more fair system for MOTM is in order, but it's too much of a hassle to orchestrate such a system. The emblem system is pretty much replacing MOTM, and it's granted by the staff, who generally take it seriously enough to not hand them out like candy.

I will admit that some people who are popular happen to get emblems far more often, but that's simply a hazard, if you aren't standing out, how can the staff be expected to notice you?
 
MotM really should die imho.

I did December and it was a royal pain in my backside because alot of people just threw down names. There was no real sense of voting and people didn't back up their votes with evidence. It turned into a giant popularity contest [not that it hasn't always been on] and at the end I was so disgusted with it I decided, after January's, that I would never post in one again.

It's a ton of work for people who whine about the results. :/ It doesn't have a point except to make people whine about what they didn't get or feel bad about themselves because they didn't place high.

It's stupid, it's redundant and really, outside Other Chat, nobody really likes it/knows about it so if it just stays dead, I'll throw a party and bake Luke into a cake. n_n
 
As Pachy says, it's just the same people being voted for over and over again. It just got plain boring. It would be more exciting if people would stop voting for the ones they're friends with, and just vote for people who actually deserve to win.
 
I think "Member of the Month" should still exist, but be changed so that only staff members are able to participate. Staff should discuss in private (I'm going to guess there's a staff forum) a member who has been recognized for certain merits, based off of several factors like posting style, good communication, obeying the rules, active and friendly, etc.
 
Why not reinvent it to where instead of being MotM, have it like Member of the Season . . or just have it once every three months. oo;
And, because it only happens every so often instead of every month, it could be ~*formally announced*~ so all members could see it instead of just the people who frequent OC n_n
Voting could be the first Two months and maybe 1 or 2 week(s), and then multiple people tally the scores. :<

Or a system could be made by Audy n_n that could automatically tally it. :B
That way, votes could be private except for the administration.

Honestly, I think a more fair system for MOTM is in order, but it's too much of a hassle to orchestrate such a system. The emblem system is pretty much replacing MOTM, and it's granted by the staff, who generally take it seriously enough to not hand them out like candy.
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Ehhh. But, this is ~community~ oriented stuff. lol.

Honestly, one of the reasons, to me, that the same people kept winning is because . . it wasn't very publicized. I mean, yeah, only people who go to OC know about MotM. If it was announced, it would have gotten more attention.
However, as I said, occurring once a month kind of takes the meaning away from it, so making it occur maybe 4 times a year would make things mean more. D:
And, then there was the fact that no recognition was given for the separate categories.

Like, say Glen Coco won ~*SUPER BEST ROM HACKER OF THE MONTH OF JUNE*~. Well, you go Glen Coco, but who knows that happened, unless Glen Coco puts it in his sig, or someone reads the results thread. ):

And then, maybe if we kept actual categories instead of random crap like "MOST LIKELY TO EAT SPORKS x3 x3 O.O" that were consistent for each voting period, with maybe a few different questions with Emblems added in for them every time. n_n;

Maybe even make it one nomination per category? Or, at the most three. ):

tl;dr:

  • Member of the Month -> Member of the Season/Whatever
  • Advertise the heck out of it. It's supposed to be PC-wide, not ~*let's clique up and all vote to totally kill Caesar*~.
  • Possibly make a forum system that allowed for Private Voting/Automatic Tallying/etc.
  • Make the categories consistent, for the most part. No more weird crap. D;
  • Give emblems for all categories.
  • Only 1-3 nominations per category.
 
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ゲンガー said:
I demand Chibi-chan makes a new one :3
They always sounded fun when I heard about it.
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Moderators don't make Motm, members do! It's one think in OC that's member run. It's just that those who do it and enjoy making the questions hate the fact they have to pay for it by counting them in the end. Last year, four Motms were left resultless/undid.

Forever said:


I asked Chibi for March, she said no. I asked her for April and I'm still waiting for a response... About 15 days later. >>
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That's because I'm still deciding if we're still doing Motm.

Pachy said:
To be honest, I don't mind that MOTM has fallen out of use. I've always felt it's a roughly stacked competition where all the same people win consistently. Mainly a popularity contest.

Honestly, I think a more fair system for MOTM is in order, but it's too much of a hassle to orchestrate such a system. The emblem system is pretty much replacing MOTM, and it's granted by the staff, who generally take it seriously enough to not hand them out like candy.

I will admit that some people who are popular happen to get emblems far more often, but that's simply a hazard, if you aren't standing out, how can the staff be expected to notice you?
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Find me a Motm where Lightning hasn't won 'Favorite Staff' or Beachboy hasn't won something. It is pretty biased and obvious who's going to win what.

Erik Destler said:
Why not reinvent it to where instead of being MotM, have it like Member of the Season . . or just have it once every three months. oo;
And, because it only happens every so often instead of every month, it could be ~*formally announced*~ so all members could see it instead of just the people who frequent OC n_n
Voting could be the first Two months and maybe 1 or 2 week(s), and then multiple people tally the scores. :<

Or a system could be made by Audy n_n that could automatically tally it. :B
That way, votes could be private except for the administration.

Ehhh. But, this is ~community~ oriented stuff. lol.

Honestly, one of the reasons, to me, that the same people kept winning is because . . it wasn't very publicized. I mean, yeah, only people who go to OC know about MotM. If it was announced, it would have gotten more attention.
However, as I said, occurring once a month kind of takes the meaning away from it, so making it occur maybe 4 times a year would make things mean more. D:
And, then there was the fact that no recognition was given for the separate categories.

Like, say Glen Coco won ~*SUPER BEST ROM HACKER OF THE MONTH OF JUNE*~. Well, you go Glen Coco, but who knows that happened, unless Glen Coco puts it in his sig, or someone reads the results thread. ):

And then, maybe if we kept actual categories instead of random crap like "MOST LIKELY TO EAT SPORKS x3 x3 O.O" that were consistent for each voting period, with maybe a few different questions with Emblems added in for them every time. n_n;

Maybe even make it one nomination per category? Or, at the most three. ):

tl;dr:

  • Member of the Month -> Member of the Season/Whatever
  • Advertise the heck out of it. It's supposed to be PC-wide, not ~*let's clique up and all vote to totally kill Caesar*~.
  • Possibly make a forum system that allowed for Private Voting/Automatic Tallying/etc.
  • Make the categories consistent, for the most part. No more weird crap. D;
  • Give emblems for all categories.
  • Only 1-3 nominations per category.
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Until a hassle-free voting solution is made...I doubt anything will get through @__@
A seasonal one sounds good though.


Personally, I think we should let this thing die. Just like old traditions such as the TDome, PC President, and other traditions of old. The topics are crappy, the results are obvious, and people are too lazy to do the work themselves. It's a tradition that just (sadly?) doesn't work with what PC is today.
 
I don't think letting it die is a good option. It's been on for Godknowshowlong(or Rukario)... since PC about started, right? It's dying because it's being crushed below the poop deck of the forum! It should be in the announcements.

And it should be even more major, so making it Member of the Season is a great idea. 4 times instead of 12 would make it a bit more of a rarity and more exciting.

People do not host the thing because the tallying has to be manual. Well then set up an automatic system. Something that can be done in any programming language is Copy pasta a page into a text file, have a program scan certain symbols to identify a voting area, tally names, ignore invalidities, and have those taken care of manually. Of course bugs are gonna be possible, so that is why like good programmers we test it before implementing it. Much more helpful and automatic if the voters cooperate.

Of course, if it's gonna be rarer, we can do individual emblems for each category. If not for a season then yearly if they won their category often. But the MotS emblem should be kept seasonal.

This of course all depends on how willing the community as a whole is. I really support this concept to keep cheer around here.
 
I was thinking, and I agree with Erick... sorta. How about you align it with the other contests (only one I know of is PC's Prettiest Profile Contest). That way, you could have a special, I dunno, theme maybe(?) every two or three months.

But MotM does deserve a break. 7 years is a hell of a lot.
 
Lawl, it was more than a popularity contest? I honestly never knew that.

You know, you could just limit the number of times a person can win MOTM for a certain amount of time, but that just sounds stupid imo.
Oh well, everything has its flaws.
 
^ People wouldn't take the time to look up who's already won and who's ineligible anyway.

I think we should switch it to Member of the Year. Come up with good categories (whether that means putting it in the hands of staff or not) and then have it once a year, maybe in December or something. Then we don't have to make the same votes month after month and we won't get so bored of it.

MOTM was fun back when PC was a much, much, much smaller forum, but now all the votes are the same. And that's not even the members' fault--PC's just too big. No longer does everyone know the "best RPer", nor do we have any idea who the most knowledgeable ____ is. We only know who the "best" person out of our group of friends is. And that's okay! Honestly, I think it'd be kind of lame if someone spent forever scouring the forums to find the right match for each category when they'd just have to do it again in a month's time. :/ I sure as hell never did the few times I've voted in MOTM in the last year.

But if we switch it to an annual thing, we won't get sick of it, it'll become a more interesting tradition than every single month, and if we do keep it in the hands of the members, we can get a discussion thread for it up in November where people nominate categories and brainstorm ideas for it. That keeps it interesting and fresh for December when it's posted, and maybe people will be more inspired to vote when they only have to fill in a ballot once every 12 months instead of once every 30 days. (These months can be replaced with any months but it just kinda makes sense to keep it at the end of the year, right?)

To everyone complaining that it became a popularity contest in the end, don't kid yourself. It was always a popularity contest, lmao. It was just a more interesting one when everyone knew EVERYONE instead of just the people in their circle.
 
Good point Erica. It was much funner when everyone knew everyone in PC.

It'd definitely be a bit more fun if we did it yearly because the same old people who everyone knows and loves, and voted for in MOTM...will have to work extra harder to keep that honor for MOTY. (if they care)

We can always pick out members to help count all the votes and stuff. x3
 
Twilight Sky said:
Erica, I'm sorta confused, hopefully you'll be able to clarify this.

I understood the part when you suggested to offer it annually, but as I think about it, isn't it the same thing as PC Presidency in a way? I mean last I recalled, it got shut down because staff members had to spend hours to count 9001 votes in that thread. And this was held once every six months. So I'm wondering, if MotM was held annually, don't you think it'd probably turn out to be the same result? D:
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Well, no, the fun part (I think, anyway) about MOTM is that there are a ton of different categories to come up with answers for. Thinking of who you know that matches each category and vice versa is the fun part about taking part in it. The Presidency was just a popularity contest where you pick your favourite person over all and hope they get a name colour and no powers whatsoever for a few months.

:/ I don't really see much of a relation unless you see the final "Member of the Month" category as a big huge deal, because that's the only comparable category in MOTM. Or I guess in this case, year.
 
True, That and Member of the Year would be nothing more than maybe a congrats thread and a spechul shiny emblem. XD
 
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