Respected User Award

[eubz]

I know there was once an award of this kind, how about reviving it these days adding some categories as:
a. Respected Map Maker - a user who is very helpful and is respected in the said field.
b. Respected Coder - has a good reputation, well known, and is very much nice and knowledgeable in jass, vjass, or GUI or any of these.
c. Respected Artist - is very much knowledgeable and is well-known in digital or none-digital paintings. Preferably, he is working with skins, icons, or any of the like.
d. Respected Modeler - an artist well-known in the field of modeling.
e. Respected Terrain Artist - this user is well-known in the terrain creation process.
f. Global Respect - this user is very helpful in all aspects of warcraft 3 modding community, as in here in hiveworkshop.

Each of these categories shall have a unique icon as an award, and the user should be active to gain such award. If, on the next year, the same user has been chosen his award shall have to level up. All users are allowed to suggest any other users deserving for the said award. As soon as the suggestion is done and the thread is closed, there shall be a poll. The poll shall be voted by users who have knowledge about the candidate's activity in hive. The candidate who gained more votes shall win for each category.

This awards shall be done each year. With this, users will engage more in their chosen field. I do hope that hive continues thriving and alive.

 

[rulerofiron99]

Respected Map Maker award should not include "helpful". This award should purely be for high quality mapping prowess.

Add an additional award for Respected Helper (maybe a better word than "helper"), which would be for someone active in WEHZ and generally very helpful across the forum.

 

[Heinvers]

These are good suggestions eubz.

With this, users will engage more in their chosen field.

Not that we don't do that but extra motivation is always welcomed

Although there was the User of the year award. I haven't seen the 2013 award given yet :/

 

[Chaosy]

I will get the Respected Modeler for sure.

 

[Heinvers]

Nope, you shall get the respected coder one

 

[chobibo]

Sounds okay, that would motivate some people to be active...

I'll get the Unrespected Member award lol. ''\0/''

 

[Pharaoh_]

Merit Badge, anyone?

 

[Heinvers]

You'd have to be extremely helpful or contributing to the community to get that. An example is you Pharaoh_, a badge earned by extreme hard work.

 

[Chaosy]

Nope, you shall get the respected coder one

Hardly, but anyway.. HOW DARE YOU INSULT MY MODELING SKILLS. I can actually create an square!

Now seriously, I think stuff like this is both fun and interesting but instead of starting something new (like this) why not just do the user of the year / merit badge? because that's basically the same thing.

 

[Heinvers]

why not just do the user of the year / merit badge? because that's basically the same thing.

Indeed. The problem is that the user of 2013 hasn't been even designated yet :/
Also merit badges are a distant dream.

 

[Chaosy]

true, but if you do too many of these awards it wont be special anymore.

 

[Heinvers]

Hardly, but anyway.. HOW DARE YOU INSULT MY MODELING SKILLS. I can actually create an square!

Modeller incoming xD

if you do too many of these awards it wont be special anymore.

Yeah, because you won't have the same feeling and it'll loose meaning after too many :/

 

[chobibo]

Helper of the week? How about something like that lol ♥_♥

 

[Heinvers]

Helper of the week? How about something like that lol ♥_♥

What kind of reward would that be captain chobibo?
Any autograph included?

 

[chobibo]

From the mod of your choice lol XD

 

[Chaosy]

respected GUIer or riot.

 

[Gilles]

I would prefer to be respected for my abilities or helpfulness without the badge. I enjoy when people don't know who I am and I can slam them for not respecting me for all those things that I can do, like... whatever you get the idea.

Not that it ever happens; but it could! And it would be glorious!

 

[Chaosy]

That is true, but then the world cup doesn't need a prize either. It's just a showoff than you can take out and show in 10 years and say "this is what I managed to do back then" because out of all those users people help, how many do actually remember that you helped them later on? The respected coder for example would just be to show that I was helpful back then.

That's how I see it anyway.

 

[Ralle]

Well, I wouldn't want to spend my time managing something like this. Pharaoh_ used to do this with the Merit badge. Perhaps if he's up to the job it will be restarted.

 

[Heinvers]

Pharaoh_ used to do this with the Merit badge. Perhaps if he's up to the job it will be restarted.

That would be most advisable.

 

[Binsu]

I hope so that it would be resume seeing that (at least for me) this awards played a great role on the past.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Well, I've been wanting to initiate Merit Badge #3 for some time now. Posted it in the News. Have fun

 

[Rui]

ZzZz, thanks so much for reviving this dumb idea. I subscribe what Gilles said.

See this thread and, in particular, my post.

For historical purposes, there's "What the fruit happened to the respected user award?".

 

[Pharaoh_]

ZzZz, thanks so much for reviving this dumb idea. I subscribe what Gilles said.

See this thread and, in particular, my post.

Respected User award will not be revived or reused, don't worry, you retain the credits of it.

 

[Rui]

It's not about me getting credits, that's 13lackDeath's theory.

 

[Pharaoh_]

It's not about me getting credits, that's 13lackDeath's theory.

Check how many "I" and "me" your linked post has and you will realize what I mean.

 

[Rui]

Actually, it's not about me getting credits NOR would I take credits for it... because I didn't create it.

Also, judging my post by the number of times word X appears in it is... inaccurate? To say the least. Considering I almost seem to be underlining or even agreeing with some of the lies divulged around here two years ago.

 

[GhostThruster]

waste of time and energy.

 

[Ralle]

Respected user award lives on but is not determined by the community.

 

[Eagle XI]

The fact that you feel the rep system has been deprecated and you need a badge to appreciatingly distinguish actually respected members from regulars, without atleast attempting to adress the flaw that have spawned the need for this, already tells much.

waste of time and energy

basically, this. People getting shit done are already distinguishable enough, irregardless of as how they appear.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Geez, your explanation totally describes the Merit Badge, eubz.