The rules of the 2015 award votes will be run essentially on the same rules as the last two years with the main difference being that those who are entitled to vote and be voted for in the award ceremony need to have joined the GOF at least three months ago, must have posted at least a 100 times and (this is the single difference) must have been active within the last three months rather than within the current year.
Here are the full rules:
The voting process officially opens on
Saturday, 1st August. A voting thread will be opened by one of the admins.
Voting for the initial 8 categories will last for 2 weeks and will close at
12 (midnight) on 15 August 2015 (forum standard time)We understand it is a wall of text, but we would like you to at least read through the rules once before you start voting so that you won't breach any rules.
♪♫♪ OFFICIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR 2015 GANG OF FIVE MEMBERSHIP AWARDS ♪♫♪
1) All selected GOF members listed are invited to participate in the GOF Awards. These candidates have been granted participation on clearing of the following conditions:
A. Have a post count of at least
100 postsB. Have been active on the GOF within the past
3 monthsC. Have been a member of the GOF for at least
3 monthsThe list of eligible candidates for this year's awards can be found below! If your name is not on that list, you are
not eligible to receive an award in this year's nominations. If you find you fulfill the three criteria listed above and still are not on the list, please contact one of the admins about it. We do our very best, but mistakes are always possible.
- The Appreciated Member Award will also be included but nominations for this award will be conducted AFTER the main 8 categories have been finalised and the awards distributed. DO NOT reveal your nomination for the Appreciated Member Award alongside your votes for the initial 8 categories because it won't be counted.
2) You are to offer
one (1) nomination per category highlighting the nominee's GOF username in
underline and/or
bold to aid with the tallying process. We strongly advise all participants to vote in every category if possible.
Understandably there may be some areas you are not too sure on if you haven't been involved directly (e.g. the RPG section) or are genuinely unable to select one candidate but we urge you try to offer a nomination if you can.
3) If you want to be entitled to win an award, you will have to vote for at least 6 out of 9 categories. In case you did not vote in at least 6 categories, you will not receive any awards you are entitled to. The awards will instead go to the member with the second highest amount of votes. If you are not interested in winning an award, but still wish to vote in several categories, you are allowed to do so.
4) If you skip 3 votes in the first 7 categories, you are obliged to vote in the Appreciated Member award in order to win an award yourself.
- The Appreciated Member Award voting will be held
after the main 8 categories have been finalised and the awards distributed, since only members who didn't win any of these 8 categories can be voted for the Appreciated Member Award.
DO NOT reveal your nomination for the Appreciated Member Award alongside your votes for the initial 8 categories because it won't be counted.
5) All nominations must be accompanied with a few lines or a brief statement as to why you feel your choice deserves the award. It doesn't have to be long, but it should at least help enforce your choice so that it can be counted as valid reasoning. Feel free to express credit to those member you felt were close contenders for an award if you wish. Nominations without explanatory comments will count as a skipped vote, so make sure to include them!
6) If you do not complete all your nominations in one post, please submit the remainder of your nominations in a separate post. Please
do not edit/update previous posts, since this will confuse the one keeping record of the votes. We will constantly update your votes and will not go back to check older posts once votes are cast.
7) We discourage voting for yourself in any given category for the awards. if you genuinely feel that there are no other eligible candidates who deserve a specific award then you are permitted to vote for yourself in 1 category only. Voting for yourself more than once will count as skipped votes. In case a tie in number of votes comes up, the candidate who did not vote for themselves automatically wins the award.
8) The candidate who gets most votes for an award will be permitted to add one of the drafts of the award to his or her signature. The candidate with the second most votes can choose one of the drafts of the awards after the winner has chosen his and can call himself the
runner up! Runner ups must have at least one third of the votes the winner had and cannot use the same banner as the winner. Runner ups do not have to state that their award is a runner up, they can be just as proud as the actual winners.
9) In case two members get an equal amount of votes and are both entitled to either the award or a runner up award there will be a tiebreaking vote. These will be held after the main voting and before the Appreciated Member award voting. This final tiebreaker will decide who wins the award.
And lastly, we would like to remind you all that the awards are here for fun. Any activity that could be considered ruining the fun will disqualify you from the awards and might even result in a harsher action if necessary. Here is a list of what we find unacceptable:
- Cheating
- Bribing
- Vote fixing
- Conspiring
- Any general misconduct of ensuring that one GOF member will be guaranteed an award
- Claim an award when you're not elected
We want all of you to have as much fun as possible and we can only assure that if you help along yourself.
Thanks for reading. If there are any other questions feel free to post them below
- The main categories for this year's Awards are as follows -
~Fanart Award
~Feedback Award
~Friendly Member Award
~Helpful Member Award
~Philosopher Award
~Proactive Award
~Projects Award
~Role Play Gamer Award
