User of the Year 2010

[Midnighters]

They may not have done anything, because there are active members on this site, that haven't a clue whom any of them are.

 

[En_Fuego]

They may not have done anything, because there are active members on this site, that haven't a clue whom any of them are.

They wouldn't be up there if they didn't do anything

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

They may not have done anything, because there are active members on this site, that haven't a clue whom any of them are.

Well the idea of these sorts of things is to get active members to vote in the poll, of course it's generally assumed some non-actives will vote but the hope is that for the most part it's hopefully people who know of the people they're voting on.

@Fuego

He was talking about those asking, not those in the poll

 

[Mr. Bob]

 

[defskull]

Current Vote:
TriggerHappy - 24.68%
Dr Super Good - 50.65%
enjoy - 24.68%

Try add all of those vote in percentual and you will get 100.01% =.=''

 

[fladdermasken]

Current Vote:
TriggerHappy - 24.68%
Dr Super Good - 50.65%
enjoy - 24.68%

Try add all of those vote in percentual and you will get 100.01% =.=''

I'm quite thankful it actually rounds up rather than providing an infinite ammount of equally redundant decimals.
Might just be me though.

 

[En_Fuego]

I just added the percentages and it was definitely 100%

edit: 24.52%; 50.32%; 25.16%

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I'm quite thankful it actually rounds up rather than providing an infinite ammount of equally redundant decimals.
Might just be me though.

Here on THW we have a 6 digit significant figure limit

 

[Sorceress]

I dont know really..
i think i would go for the Doctor.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Only over 50% of votes?
I guess I will have to work three times as hard at solving problems and helping people in future. Then I will have over 150% of of the votes!

 

[asdfADRiAN]

This one is tough. Im stuck between Trigger and DSG.. hmm who to choose, who to choose.

 

[Orcnet]

Only over 50% of votes?
I guess I will have to work three times as hard at solving problems and helping people in future. Then I will have over 150% of of the votes!

The Big Daddy has finally come into the parley
congratulations btw bro

 

[Adiktuz]

I voted for TH... ^_^

 

[The Reborn Devil]

I voted enjoy, because she is awesome. The two other candidates have been demoted before, not enjoy. Just sayin'!

Btw, my vote should count 50 times. Because, seriously, my opinion really matters.

 

[Midnighters]

Oh dead God... why did they have to ruin the image of a perfectly good band..... Fucking ponies need to go away.

 

[defskull]

DSG rocks !

I assume that this is one-man-band

 

[Skycraft]

Get the fuck out of here with your pictures and photos, this thread is serious business homies >.<

 

[defskull]

1 hour left before "you-know-who" wins the award
Advance Gratz !

 

[Tleno]

Cool, you-know-who has twice more votes than any other contestant!

 

[Jaret]

1 hour left before "you-know-who" wins the award
Advance Gratz !

Umm, the thing is closing on may 10th... and today is may 5th. I fail to see the logic of 5 days passing on within an hour.

 

[Adiktuz]

05-10-2011
--> if you have mistaken 05 as the date, then you should have said, this will end in october...

 

[defskull]

The F.... LOLX.
Sorry to bring false information =X

 

[Deolrin]

1 hour left before "you-know-who" wins the award
Advance Gratz !

More like five days? :S

 

[Arisato]

! DSG

 

[xxdingo93xx]

me votez for teh lady :>

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

05-10-2011
--> if you have mistaken 05 as the date, then you should have said, this will end in october...

I never really did understand with the US (hmm idk how many other countries do it that way too) way of labeling dates you start with the month really, I mean it seems logical to go from smallest to largest.

But yeah, plenty of time to get your votes in if you haven't yet

 

[Dr Super Good]

Its due to America being the land of capatilisim. Companies set montly targets etc which means the month is far more important than the date. This however leads to a lot of confusion as here in the UK we always go DD/MM/YY so Americans often think our day is the month. Such a confusion is understandable but the fact they then think the 13-31 is a vaild month and argue that you are stupid or making no sense gets me.

It could be worse. In electronics everything is in inches due to the US. The result is that distances are in min or qin or nin. One has to be careful not to pull a mars mission and forget to convert lol.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

West Europe's pretty down with the whole capitalism thing too so that seems a bit shallow of an explanation, also I'd imagine it's rooted in something at the early ages of the industrial revolution or earlier.

 

[Dentothor]

Its due to America being the land of capatilisim. Companies set montly targets etc which means the month is far more important than the date. This however leads to a lot of confusion as here in the UK we always go DD/MM/YY so Americans often think our day is the month. Such a confusion is understandable but the fact they then think the 13-31 is a vaild month and argue that you are stupid or making no sense gets me.

It could be worse. In electronics everything is in inches due to the US. The result is that distances are in min or qin or nin. One has to be careful not to pull a mars mission and forget to convert lol.

Same here in Canada. we do day first.

 

[Jaret]

just go with Day-Month-Year or Year-Month-day. From less to more, or more to less.

 

[enjoy]

They did? I mean, I've seen Triggerhappy and Dr Super Good a couple times and seen their work, but I haven't actually seen anything from enjoy. :O
What did she do if I may ask? It's not like I care about who get the award, but I'm curious.

I do most stuff in icon section, The admin contact forum and the chat, and also judged two contests, but I am really only in the art section, or where there needs to be removed some posts. But generally, I try not to interfere with the forum mods jobs.
I am not sure why I was nominated.

Raven0 referred to enjoy as a male. I had to correct him.

Doesn't matter. The rest of his discription of me was nice

My bad ^-^
sry enjoy!

Forgiven!

Why is enjoy nominated?

I do honestly not know, and I actually voted for trigger, so.


Now, moving on to responding some complains, and add suggestions.

There is a lack of regular users in the user of the year contest

Yes, there has been a lack of users, and I am sorry for that.
We discussed this alot, but some on staff ( I will not mention names ) do not think that the users are mature enough, to make serious nominations. I have been asking abit around chat, because then I would be able to add some users to the poll, but sadly, there was too many choices.

I would suggest that user of the year was seperate, and then we could create the Staff member of the year, if someone do feel an urge to be credited.

Also, I would suggest that for next year, we create a nomination thread that would be linked in the notifications, and on the front page, so that people could nominate. However, I think there would be a need for a rule about not nominating yourself.
But I would like to hear what the users are up for, and what they think would be the best idea, and we could then ( the staff ) bring them up in the Mods lobby, and discuss them.

Why is [user] not nominated?

We had two round in the Mods lobby, where staff voted, and we did have users, but they didn't come to the final round. I think that if the vote had been public, for users to vote on, there would have been a great chance that someone like _Pharaoh_ would have won, but sadly, thats not the case.

So again, I would like to hear what you guys think we could do better for next year.
Please remember that so far, this is just ideas, and everything will be discussed with staff and Ralle, before anything is desided. But it would be nice with opinions


- enjoy

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Also, I would suggest that for next year, we create a nomination thread that would be linked in the notifications, and on the front page, so that people could nominate. However, I think there would be a need for a rule about not nominating yourself.
But I would like to hear what the users are up for, and what they think would be the best idea, and we could then ( the staff ) bring them up in the Mods lobby, and discuss them.

Is there any way we could possibly create a system that essentially functions like a poll with write in options? Basically once it's open you can nominate whoever you want, while some people are going to make stupid choices (like a guy who just joined the iste nominating themself or something) hopefully enough people would make legitimate choices to add in some clear nominees. Of course this is essentially what a thread would be, but if we could get something to count the votes for us it'd be easier and less chaotic then a thread.

 

[enjoy]

Is there any way we could possibly create a system that essentially functions like a poll with write in options? Basically once it's open you can nominate whoever you want, while some people are going to make stupid choices (like a guy who just joined the iste nominating themself or something) hopefully enough people would make legitimate choices to add in some clear nominees. Of course this is essentially what a thread would be, but if we could get something to count the votes for us it'd be easier and less chaotic then a thread.

Well, I guess we could do that, but I mean, if we just had maybe two mods subscribing to the thread, and delete immature nominations as they come along? I don't know if it would work, but I for one would surely be there to delete non-valid posts as they come along, if it came to that.
And we would probably write some clear rules/guidelines to users who would like to nominate someone.

 

[Traxamillion]

Enjoy. Only good choice.

 

[AIagremm]

Seriously. I have been tracking this thread since the very beginning, and I see that DSG is going to win, but Im voting for enjoy! =D

 

[The Reborn Devil]

enjoy is the best. There's a reason she won in the first round in Mods Lobby. Too bad the others weren't content with 1 vote more ._.

Anyway, if we were to do this the awesome way, enjoy would win. The awesome way would be to remove anyone who has ever been demoted for inappropriate behaviour from the staff.

 

[Billy the Cat]

The awesome way would be to remove anyone who has ever been demoted for inappropriate behaviour from the staff.

Or we could drop out all users that were mods at the time we started deciding on a user of the year.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The awesome way would be to remove anyone who has ever been demoted for inappropriate behaviour from the staff.

That would not make sense since some people are User of the Year and have done far far worse things than a news thread that infringed copyright and seemed to be offensive in some cultures.

Instead it could be done by who is the smartest user of the year (most IQ) but that would be equally as stupid.

 

[Rui]

I hardly think donating $1000+ can be considered "nothing" but I'll by no means argue that those on the poll don't deserve to be there (I'm sure they do) - But while you can't give the award everyone, there are many others who most certainly deserve it just as much. Voted for DSG anyway, he's been more than forthcoming with advice for the general public including newbies who I think can be given a real hard time here, so kudos to him for that

I did fight for TWIF. Just by looking at this thread I feel like just handing over the award to him. Today, yes, today, it was once again, for the hundredth time, thrown to my face how choice is important, and few would choose to just donate their 1000$ to this website. But people kept yelling that «donating 1000$ shouldn't get you an award», and, like always, my arguments were unheard.

That is open to opinion, for the simple fact that, some moderators are not put into position for the way they act, but for popularity. Those that are put there for said reason, normally do not have the skills or behavior for said position.

It's a lesson taught to us by PurplePoot upon his departure that we forgot and keep forgetting.

And regarding separate awards, please look at my previous reply.

 

[Pyritie]

But people kept yelling that «donating 1000$ shouldn't get you an award», and, like always, my arguments were unheard.

We heard you. We just disagreed with you.

 

[baassee]

I did fight for TWIF. Just by looking at this thread I feel like just handing over the award to him. Today, yes, today, it was once again, for the hundredth time, thrown to my face how choice is important, and few would choose to just donate their 1000$ to this website. But people kept yelling that «donating 1000$ shouldn't get you an award», and, like always, my arguments were unheard.

I wouldn't count it as buying an award as said, 1000$ is something I would probably spend on my drivers license education or university. But if you're wealthy this is a whole other matter...

Spoiler

1337 donated should have an own award

 

[Rui]

You kept stating what you had stated in the beginning, my argument had such a null effect that it's hard to believe you really thought them through. Though, if you did, you don't realize how choices are so important. I, for one, can think about nothing else. It just got rubbed in my face really hard today, though.

 

[Sorceress]

Bah, i wanna change my vote and vote for CRAZYRUSSIAN!

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I wouldn't count it as buying an award as said, 1000$ is something I would probably spend on my drivers license education or university. But if you're wealthy this is a whole other matter...

Spoiler

1337 donated should have an own award

Oh god not this argument again

Money wasn't the only factor on the part of that argument, there was multiple reasons for and against him as user of the year and in the end it was decided against him in favor of other users.

Also note that he does already sport the "bought the hive" award, something which no other user can boast on the site.

 

[baassee]

Money wasn't the only factor on the part of that argument, there was multiple reasons for and against him as user of the year and in the end it was decided against him in favor of other users.

Also note that he does already sport the "bought the hive" award, something which no other user can boast on the site.

Now that I did not know. I'll just shut up from now on.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Well it is impossible to edit a poll I believe

 

[Dentothor]

guys. just deal with it >.< its not like anyone is going to make exceptions just because you dont think its fair. they have taken this under 3 ROUNDS OF CONSIDERATION. just stfu and vote. dont like the votes? dont vote. end of discussion. We had this argument last year. We even let you ATTEMPT to nominate last year. And none of the nominations were at all meaningful. We gave you guys a chance before, you blew it. Shutup and vote/dont vote.

 

[fladdermasken]

Isn't it rather interesting that like every topic I've browsed in this section has for some particular reason eventually invoked the user vs staff dilemma for the most implausible reasons?

 

[Cweener]

guys. just deal with it >.< its not like anyone is going to make exceptions just because you dont think its fair. they have taken this under 3 ROUNDS OF CONSIDERATION. just stfu and vote. dont like the votes? dont vote. end of discussion. We had this argument last year. We even let you ATTEMPT to nominate last year. And none of the nominations were at all meaningful. We gave you guys a chance before, you blew it. Shutup and vote/dont vote.

This.

Nobody else will be in the poll. These are your choices. If you dislike it, don't come back to the thread.

 

[Pyritie]

I mean you guys wanted haosis to get it two years ago

this is why you can't have nice things