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Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Malte279 on September 12, 2013, 06:04:56 AM
Hello,
the announcement of the winners of this years awards vote was somewhat delayed, but at long last here are the winners and runner ups in the different categories (there is no obligation whatsoever for runner up winners to mark their award as runner ups. The only difference is that the winner is the first to pick his or her favorite award banner from the respective category and that the runner up may not pick the identical banner).
To add an award banner to your signature you need to go to "My controls" > "Edit signature" and then add the url of the award banner you want to add in Image tags in the text field and then update the signature. To get the url for a banner you want to add to your signature you can right click on the respective banner in the award banner thread (http://gangoffive.net/index.php?showtopic=12650&st=20) and copy the graphic url. Note that the award banner thread includes still the banners with the non bolt type wording beside the regular bold types one.
On an additionaly note the admins strongly appeal to the winners of several awards to arrange them in a way that does not boost the height of their signatures too much. The award banners are generally exempt from the the signature guidelines (http://gangoffive.net/index.php?showtopic=6491) which basically strive to keep signatures from getting higher than 250 pixels. However, to spare members long scrolling (especially uncomfortable for members who use mobile devices to access the GOF) we want to encourage members who won several awards to arrange them side by side (by not hitting the enter key between the different award image tags in your signature) too rather than stacking them on top of each other only.
That being said here are this years winners:

Appreciated Member Award
Winner: The Chronicler
Runner up: Pterano

Fanart Award
Winner: somerandomfangirl
Runner up: StrutEggStealer

Feedback Award
Winner: Ducky123
Runner up: Pangaea

Friendly Member Award
Winner: Ducky123
Runner up: Nick22

Helpful Member Award
Winner: Mumbling
Runner up: Kor

Philosopher Award
Winner: Malte279
Runner up: none

Proactive Member Award
Winner: MurMur
Runner up: none

Role Play Gamer Award
Winner: Nahla
Runner up: Ducky123

Congratulations everyone and thanks to everyone who participated in the vote :yes
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on September 12, 2013, 07:22:16 AM
Good job winners! Keep making our fair forum better!
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Ducky123 on September 12, 2013, 08:49:17 AM
Congratulations everyone! :DD

3 Awards? :huh: That's far more than I had expected, thanks guys  :angel

I'll do my best to make and keep this place a wonderful, friendly and funny one!

EDIT: Picked the following: (http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/2013/Feedback06_zps40707bb7.jpg)(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/2013/Friendly06_zpsb70ee2ff.jpg) Will pick my RP Award banner as soon as Nahla picks hers :yes
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Mumbling on September 12, 2013, 08:55:31 AM
I have picked the following (and I'll fix my signature soon so that it looks nicer):
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/2013/Helpful04_zpsdd04e669.jpg)

Thanks everyone for voting! :) I'll wrap up the fanfiction awards as well.
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Pangaea on September 12, 2013, 11:08:54 AM
Congratulations Ducky123 and Mumbling, you broke my three-year winning streak! :D

Seriously, I'm glad to see other members winning the Feedback and Helpful Member Awards for a change. :) As grateful as I am for every award nomination that has ever come my way, I was getting self-conscious about winning both of those awards over and over again so many times.

Though I'm not sure whether I'll be displaying it in my signature (despite your assurances, Malte, I personally don't feel comfortable showcasing a runner-up award without somehow marking it is such), I guess I'll take this as my runner-up banner for the Feedback Award:
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/2013/Feedback05_zps93d0fa13.jpg)

Congratulations to all winners, and thanks to everyone who participated in the voting and otherwise made the 2013 GOF Awards possible. :smile
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: somerandomfangirl on September 12, 2013, 11:10:11 AM
Whelp, congrats to everyone who won an award, and thanks to anyone who voted for me to win this award. I'm honestly surprised I won anything, and I'm a little disappointed with myself for not contributing much towards the fanart section lately. I'm going to really try and do something else soon, though.

I think I shall take this banner:
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/2013/Fanart11_zps54945978.jpg)

I'm going to try and get a bit more out of my shell over the next year and try to contribute more towards some other discussions. I've really just kept myself to a few odd topics around, and I feel I should do a bit more than that. :yes
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: StrutEggStealer on September 12, 2013, 12:08:01 PM
Oh wow! We got such a nice turnout this year :DD
Congrats to all the winners *runs around room, waving arms wildly*

(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/2013/Fanart02_zps85b3ec63.jpg) I choose this one..... dat lightning O_o
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Malte279 on September 12, 2013, 12:32:37 PM
Unless you prefer the normal text type version there is also a bold type version of your award banner StrutEggStealer:
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/2013/Fanart02_zps8835aa20.jpg)
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: The Chronicler on September 12, 2013, 08:30:13 PM
Wow, I was definitely not expecting to win the Appreciated Member award this year, let alone, any award outside of fanfiction. :o  I'm honestly quite surprised by this. I guess that just goes to show that not expecting to get an award each year shouldn't be the same as expecting to never get an award at all.

Thanks for the votes, guys. (Especially the admins, who made up most of said votes. Maybe it was because of my visit to Gettysburg earlier this summer. :lol )

Anyway, I'll admit none of the available options particularly caught my interest, but I've decided to go with this one:(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/2013/Appreciated04_zps469d2dec.jpg)
(If you're wondering about the current arrangement of my signature, I'm leaving room for this year's fanfiction award.)
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Nahla on September 12, 2013, 08:44:48 PM
I..won?!!

Wow thank you ya'll for voting for me. I was hoping for runner up but didn't expect to win!

I pick this one (http://i39.tinypic.com/2hqtlsi.jpg).
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: LoyfeCycleProtector on September 12, 2013, 09:10:18 PM
Congratulations you guys. You all earned it!   :DD  :DD  :DD  You're the people who keep bringing me back here.
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Chiletrek on September 12, 2013, 10:57:00 PM
Hello:
 And congratulations to all winners! :DD .
 Even though I didn't vote, I still feel happy for all of you and all Runner-ups too.
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: LBTDiclonius on September 12, 2013, 11:02:17 PM
Congratulations you guys! You all deserve it!
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Cancerian Tiger on September 12, 2013, 11:11:46 PM
Congrats, y'all :)!
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Malte279 on September 13, 2013, 03:33:39 AM
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Maybe it was because of my visit to Gettysburg earlier this summer. :lol
Not so Chronicler. It was definitely one reason for my vote since I am very grateful for your help there :yes
But three people had voted for you even before I cast my vote and rest assured that I did not ever manipulate other admins by telling them anything along the lines of "hey, let's all vote for Chronicler". You yourself have "manipulated" people into voting for you by your constant activity and great contributions to the GOF which people wrote about in their votes. Bles you for that kind of "manipulation" ;) :yes
In spite of this the decision on the Appreciated member Award was still extremely difficult to make this year (which is probably a good sign, meaning that we have many very deserving members).
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Kor on September 13, 2013, 03:37:06 AM
That's why I didn't vote.  I couldn't narrow my choice of Most Appreciated member down to just one.
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: jansenov on September 13, 2013, 05:34:27 AM
Congratulations everyone!
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Pterano on September 13, 2013, 10:31:18 AM
Yes, congratulations to ALL the winners AND runners up. :DD I feel humbled that I became runner up for an award I won last time, as I wasn't expecting again to receive so many votes (nor was I expecting to win last year either).  :oops I admit Appreciated Member was the hardest vote for me, and gave me the most trouble this year.

I think I'll go with this one: (http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/2013/Appreciated07_zpsc7546941.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/Malte279/media/GOF%20Awards/2013/Appreciated07_zpsc7546941.jpg.html)
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: rhombus on September 13, 2013, 11:23:13 AM
Congratulations to all of you!  You all deserve the recognition.
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: The Chronicler on September 13, 2013, 08:50:47 PM
I'll admit, Malte, I was tempted to ask people to vote for me when I first noticed I was actually getting votes. But I wisely decided to hold back my enthusiasm and let everyone make their own choices. We already saw one member try to buy votes some time ago, and I certainly didn't want to repeat his mistake.
(I'm sure you already figured it out, but just to make sure there's no misunderstanding, that Gettysburg comment I made was meant as a joke, hence the lol face.)
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Kor on September 13, 2013, 09:05:06 PM
Thought I had posted the one I had picked. I'll start putting the awards I won in my signature on October 1st.  Not sure if I have it right about how to post pictures.  

(http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/Kulstor/Gof%20Stuff/th_Helpful2013.jpg) (http://s696.photobucket.com/user/Kulstor/media/Gof%20Stuff/Helpful2013.jpg.html)
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Malte279 on September 14, 2013, 06:58:30 AM
It appears the banner in your last post has been shrunk a bit Kor. The regular height is 50 pixels while the banner posted in your last message has been shrunk down to 40 pixels height (since I stacked several banners in my signature I shrunk the banners to a height of 35 pixels there to avoid blowing up my signature size too much).
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Kor on September 14, 2013, 10:16:09 AM
I guess it was photobucket's doing.  I uploaded it to my photobucket account since it provides a link so you can copy & post on forums.  Otherwise I'd have no idea how to post the image.
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Mumbling on September 14, 2013, 11:29:39 AM
Copy and paste the following into your signature, Kor:

Code:  on  
[img]http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/2013/Helpful10_zps3fd3a70f.jpg[/img]
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: bestariana1girl on January 28, 2014, 08:12:41 PM
@Mumbling can I have an award?
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: Nick22 on January 28, 2014, 08:25:16 PM
bestarianna, we have rules about the forum awards.
1 you have to have been here 3 months
2 you have to post 100 times
 3 you have to participate in discussions, rps or fanfictions enough so folks think well enough of you to nominate you.
4 you have to get enough votes to finish 1st or 2nd in a category
the 2014 awards wont be until july or so.
Title: Awards 2013 winners
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on January 28, 2014, 10:22:21 PM
...You serious?