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Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Malte279 on August 29, 2014, 01:54:10 PM
For the eights time now (with the first vote in 2006) it is time for the voting on the GOF awards to give credit where credit is due to some of the many members who make the GOF the place we enjoy so much. The voting of the awards (excepting the appreciated member award which can be won but only by those who didn't win any of the other awards and thus must be voted on later) will run for two weeks. Everyone who has posted at least 100 times, has been active in 2014 and has been around for at least three months is hearty invited to cast their votes and they can be voted for (but only those who do cast their votes may also receive one of the awards).

The Philosopher's Award is usually one of the trickiest awards for me to make up my mind about, but I got to admit that this year it has been surprisingly easy for me to make up my mind about this one. Not for lack of worthy candidates, Hrvoje (jansenov) and Cal (Pterano) for example both posted many posts which I found very interesting, but I think that for the past year the most elaborate threads on many political topics and current events were most frequently started respectively kept active by the insightful posts of a member who joined us only last year. For his great and thought through contributions my vote for the Philosopher's Award goes to Rhombus this year. :)

Helpfulness is often experienced very individually by members who receive help from other members and therefore the vote on this award is often distributed far among many worthy candidates. For me this individual act of helpfulness came from a member this year who directed my attention to an auction which I would have missed otherwise. Said auction was about a Ruby shoe charm which I was looking for to create a new tin mould (posted a Ruby wanted thread in the GOF about it which, come to think of it, I seriously need to update). The moulds I made from it didn't live up to my expectations (she is a very tricky figure to cast due to the very thin limps etc.). The member who gave me this decisive hint and whom I therefore want to nominate for the Helpful Member Award is Littlefoot3897. Thank you :)

Now this will be a surprise to nobody, but same as last years I haven't been following the Role play game sections and must therefore skip my vote on the Role Play Gamer Award.

I still need to make up my mind about the other awards.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: rhombus on August 29, 2014, 02:27:17 PM
This is my first time voting in the GOF Awards and I must admit that I found the task to be difficult.  Not because of a lack of suitable candidates, but rather because of an overabundance of helpful, friendly, and productive members.  In fact, looking back at the help and kind words that I have received from members has reminded me of just how much I appreciate this forum and the friends that I have been introduced to as a member of the GOF.  Nonetheless, despite the multitudes of deserving candidates, I have narrowed down my choices and have decided to vote for the following members.

~Fanart Award:

There has been a lot of spectacular art featured on the Gang of Five, from Ducky123, RockingScorpion, DarkHououmon, StrutEggStealer, and many others.  However, I feel that I must nominate RockingScorpion for this award.  His work is breathtakingly good and I always find myself looking forward to his next creation.

~Feedback Award

There have been many members who have given very helpful feedback on my fanfiction, but by far the most detailed and consistent feedback has come from Ducky123, which is why I give him my vote.  If it wasn't for his encouragement and his feedback on my draft plot synopsis, then 'The Seven Hunters' may have never been written in the first place.  I am very grateful for his encouragement and helpful criticism.  I would also like to thank CeraTheRed, DarkHououmon, jansenov, vonboy, and my other reviewers for giving me helpful feedback on my work.

~Friendly Member Award

This was a very hard choice to make due to the fact that the Gang of Five is completely full of helpful, friendly members.  In fact, this is the friendliest forum that I have ever had the privilege of being a member.  In the end, however, I have to vote for Ducky123 for this award.  He helped to make my time here an enjoyable and welcoming experience, which was especially appreciated when I was just getting started on the forum.  I would like to give special thanks to StrutEggStealer, Chiletrek, jansenov, and Malte279 for the same reason.

~Helpful Member Award:

In light of the great amount of assistance that he has given me, this was not a difficult choice.  Based upon the helpful feedback and advice that he has given me concerning my fanfiction, and most importantly, giving me the encouragement to actually begin writing it,  my vote goes to Ducky123 for this award.

~Philosopher Award

I have had the opportunity to engage in many discussions on this forum concerning topics as wide-ranging as the situation in Ukraine, to the Affordable Care Act, to evolution and most of the discussions have been quite civil and enlightening.  Although this was a close call between Malte, Pterano, and jansenov, in the end I have to nominate jansenov for this award.  His very thoughtful and enlightening posts are greatly appreciated.

~Proactive Award

There have been several members who have shown up on the scene and greatly expanded participation in the caption, party room, and other often neglected topics.  However, I feel that Dalekdino is most deserving of my vote for this category.  The contributions of this member in terms of captions and fanart have been quite voluminous in the last several months.

~Role Play Gamer Award

Although I am only participating in one RP at the moment, I have seen several members deserving of recognition in this category.  However, at the end of the day, I would have to nominate bushwacked for this award.  The ideas that he has brought into the 'sudden change of species' RP were superb and we are only now beginning to see the fruits of his efforts.  I look forward to seeing how the RP develops.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on August 29, 2014, 05:50:08 PM
Note: I don't know the genders of everyone on the GoF. For that reason, I use the male pronoun for all, and my apologies if I refer to you with the incorrect pronoun.

~Fanart Award - Skip, as always. I never view fanart.

~Feedback Award - Pterano is excellent at giving tips and advice to others. Critiques he's given me on my roleplaying have refined my characters and comments he's made on fanfics indicate a level of analysis clearly designed to be beneficial to the writer who wants to improve. In addition, he encourages users to leave their comfort zones and try new things, and has even brought several new users to the Gang of Five through inviting them into his role-plays.

~Friendly Member Award - Jansenov always has something nice to say, even when nobody else feels like being nice. A recent event in the After Midnight section involved a lot of users flaming an (admittedly completely inflammatory) user, and jansenov nevertheless stayed congenial even when voicing a side. This is the sort of behavior he has demonstrated from the day he first joined the Gang of Five, and why he's one of the most positive influences on the board.

~Helpful Member Award - Rhombus is a virtual treasure trove of information. Whether he's supplying the After Midnight section with information on world happenings or informing interested parties of science facts from every branch I've ever heard of, rhombus is always happy and ready to explain things to those do don't know, but would like to find out.

~Philosopher Award - I want to nominate Serris in this category because his philosophies were recently put under fire by a disruptive user, and not only did Serris stick to his guns, he behaved as politely as can be expected given the circumstances. He is also a common sight in threads revolving around philosophical matters regarding ethics, law, politics, or science.

~Proactive Award - Nick22 has as insane a posting output as he always does. Few other users have the activity in every single section of the board as he does. Starting roleplays, making announcements, creating threads, participating in games...the fact that I'd have enough material to justify voting for him in any of these other categories is evidence as to just how well-rounded a polymath he is when it comes to the GOF.

~Role Play Gamer Award - Bushwacked is not only an active RPer, he does something I see very few other RPers do; works to improve the storytelling opportunities for other writers. He often supplies support characters who buff others, and he writes into his scenarios exciting chances for characters he does not control. He also juggles a strong variety in his characters, all of whom are fully fleshed-out people I look forward to seeing what they do next.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Nahla on August 29, 2014, 07:34:11 PM
~Fanart Award
No contest,my vote goes to RockingScorpion. I adore his art,and though I never really post on his thread with a comment,I do look at each piece of work he posts. I adore his style and each work is a masterpiece. It is clear it takes time and care into each piece of work and that is what matters for an artist. Ducky123 posts wonderful art as well but RockingScorpion is vote this year.

~Feedback Award
Oh where would I be without my beloved Ducky123. He awlays encouraged me to try better,his reviews really do help me improve as a writer,if it wasn't for him I would of just given up fanfiction writing,but instead I was able to change my style to what it is today.His feedback his constant and even when the work sucks he encourages me and instead f just saying what I did wrong,he tells me how to improve. I also want to thank Zimba for her contest feedback as well,and some others who give me some from time to time. It's all very welcomed.


I still have not decided on the rest of my votes,I will have to do them later.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: The Anonymous Person on August 30, 2014, 07:19:24 PM
Hoh boy, here we go again...

Fanart Award: This member's art is, as rhombus had stated, breathtakingly good, but is also very outstanding and inspiring too. I am often surprised at his ability to draw Ducky, who, from what I understand, is quite a difficult character to draw. For him to also do characters in a variety of styles (like that Ducky tree :D) also makes his art always a treat to see. For those reasons (and maybe some more...), my vote for this award goes to RockingScorpion.

I don't know if you can do this or not (and if I missed a rule anywhere that says you can't, forgive me), but I have decided to nominate the Feedback Award, the Friendly Member Award, and the Helpful Member Award all together, mostly because I nominate them all to the same person. This member meets all three of the criteria, not just for me, but for many members here. He is very encouraging to my ideas, and I often go to him for advice on something, whether it be a fanfic idea, something for a RP, or just to have a PM chat, which we have had quite a few. He seems to be like a brother to me, even though we live, like, six time zones away or something. For all this, my nomination for all three of these awards go to none other than Ducky123.

Philosopher Award: From what I have read, this member is always eager to start very meaningful discussions, some scientific, some politicial, some current event stuff, but all-in-all, very informational, which is why rhombus gets my vote this year.

Proactive Award: For his many contributions to the caption threads, as well as many fanart uploads, among others, my vote for this award goes to Dalekdino

Role Play Gamer Award is skipped, for even though I am in a RP myself (A Sudden Change of Species), I am not much of a follower of RPs on this forum, as well as overall.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: bushwacked on August 31, 2014, 07:11:02 PM
These were some tough decisions...

Fanart Award: My vote for this award goes to Ducky123. I’ve been following his art for some time, and you can really see how far he’s come through sheer practise (not that his work wasn’t good to start off with :p). He keeps expressing a desire to continue improving, and I’m looking forward to seeing where he goes.

Friendly Member Award: This was one of the hardest decisions, since I don’t think there’s a single unfriendly person on the forum. I was stuck between users such as LettuceBacon&Tomato, Pterano Jrd89 and rhombus, but I’ll have to go with Ducky123 again. He’s always been especially friendly to me both on the forums and on skype, and we’ve had loads of fun playing different games on the internet. He’s always up for a laugh, and I feel that the amount of time we spend talking puts him just slightly ahead.

Helpful Member Award: My vote for this one goes to rhombus. A little while back I was having problems while writing my dissertation for my Bachelor’s degree, and when I (a little nervously) asked rhombus for help he was extremely helpful, giving me online links and tips on how to continue. His advice was really helpful, and he was more than happy to give me more if I ever needed it.

Philosopher Award: Again, my vote goes to rhombus for this one. While I haven’t really participated in any of the After Midnight discussions, on the occasions that I’ve been looking through them, I’ve noticed that rhombus has always passed on his viewpoints in a clear and balanced way, and he’s always willing to listen to and take on board the opinions of others. While this also applies to a lot of users like Jansenov and Malte279, I’ve seen it first hand when talking to him on skype, which edges him out just in front.

Proactive member Award: Pterano gets my vote for the Proactive section. He’s boosted the activity in several areas such as the games section, but in particular the Role Play section through the creation of several role plays and actively taking part in their discussions.

Role Play Gamer Award: I’ve been RPing with some truly talented users such as Serris, Pterano, and Nick22, but in the end I’m going to go with LettuceBacon&Tomato. While I always look forward to reading each of their posts, LettuceBacon&Tomato has come up with such a diverse range of characters, each incredibly distinct from the other and it’s always fun to see how they’ll react to the situations they find themselves in. He’s also always ready to provide suggestions and scenarios to add to the story of the RPs he participates in.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Kor on September 01, 2014, 08:40:56 PM
FanArt:  For my Fanart vote I'll pick Ducky123 .  Though it was a very hard vote to narrow it down to just one person.   I have enjoyed the artwork done by the many who have and do post on here.  I've seen the artwork posted by Ducky123 and have enjoyed the artwork, both the coloring and on colored artwork showed over the time Ducky123 has been here.  I look forward to both Ducky123's artwork and those of the others I've enjoyed.  Even though I have seldom posted any comments or reactions to the artwork posted by Ducky123 and others.

Think I'll be going down alphabetically.  Easiest for me to know what I've voted on and what I have not.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Nick22 on September 02, 2014, 12:22:32 AM
Fanart- Skip. Cant Draw worth a lick. while this board has some good artists i must confess to not be up to date with the latest drawings.

Helpful Member- My vote goes to LettuceBacon&Tomato. LBt was kind even to give me some pointers recently on how to improve my roleplaying, by fleshing out myy characters more and making them more distinct from each. as a thank you for that servicve, I cast my vote for him.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Kor on September 02, 2014, 07:58:30 PM
Fanart Award:  Ducky123          Gets my vote since among all the folks who post in the fanart section I noticed he tends to post the most often, among all of those who post, or like me and seldom post though we do look at fanart some of us seldom post.  And I assume most artists enjoy feedback, especially from fellow artists.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Ducky123 on September 03, 2014, 09:13:08 PM
Fanart Award:

This might be the easiest decision for me... The member I'm going to nominate fulfills all criteria a good artist should: Skill, dedication, creativity and originality, variety in both style and media, love for details,  RockingScorpion fullfils them all. His art is outstanding and he never fails to surprise me which is why he is getting my vote for this category. You rock! :p
Also worth a mention is dalekdino whose art I enjoy looking at too.

Friendly Member Award:

Regardless of the sheer amount of suitable candidates for this category, this vote is a very easy decision for me this  year. rhombus has been very welcoming to new members and he has always tried to make people who were feeling bad feel better. Not only in the forum but also in our private chats he has proven his friendliness and I'm therefore always happy to communicate with him. :)
People like rhombus are the reason why the GoF is the friendliest place on the internet after all!

Helpful Member Award:

My nomination for this category is based on personal help I received from this member and good friend. bushwacked is not only the person kindly reading my stories and catching odd mistakes, wordings etc. which is a great help but also offering his help whenever I need it. Thanks for that, man! :smile

Philosopher Award:

This award is usually reserved to people like Malte279, jansenov, DarkHououmon, Pterano and others who, year after year, contribute to meaningful, philosophical, political or historical discussions. This year, however, my vote will go to rhombus for his strong engagement in particularly political threads but also in other subjects. :)

Feedback Award:

Feedback is utterly important for young, aspiring artists and authors trying to get better at what they love doing hence this is maybe the most important award for me personally as a writer and artist. I don't want to sound repetitive but yet again I have to nominate rhombus for his honest, analytical, constructive and, most importantly, continous feedback on not only my own work but also on the work of many others. There is just no other member as dedicated to giving feedback as him :)
Worth a mention are also Dalekdino, RockingScorpion, bushwacked, Kor and everybody else I forgot to mention here :p

I will have to make up my mind for the other two categories. Just need some more time :)
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: The Chronicler on September 04, 2014, 11:10:18 PM
I haven't really been focusing a lot of attention on this site lately, so I had quite a hard time figuring out who would best deserve each award without giving a lot of my votes to just one member.

Fanart Award: Dalekdino
I'm voting for this member due to the wide variety of LBT fanart he's been able to make. Among other works, there's human OCs meeting the gang, a threehorn version of himself joining the gang, and (my personal favorite) the humanized gang in a post-apocalyptic world. Despite his self-proclaimed inability to write fanfiction, the artwork he's created has done a rather good job of telling those stories, and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more.

Feedback Award: Ducky123
This vote is influenced by the fact that the only fanfiction on this site that I've been following for the last few months has been rhombus's "Seven Hunters". In that topic, I've always seen Ducky having thoughtful things to say about each chapter (despite frequently being a few chapters behind the latest update). I'm pretty sure Ducky and rhombus do a good job of sharing feedback with each other, but I can only vote for one, so I'll go with Ducky here.

Friendly Member Award: Ducky123
This award is always one of the hardest votes to make, but I've ultimately decided to go with Ducky over rhombus and countless others that I can't think of right now. He's been friendly in not only giving feedback, but also receiving it as well, as shown by how well his writing has been improving over time.

Helpful Member Award: rhombus
Whenever he comments on someone's fanart or fanfiction, he always has positive things to say, as well as giving advice on how to improve. In addition, his discussions on current events often include links to prove that what he's explaining to everyone came from an actual source that we can see for ourselves (much like I do on the rare cases that I point out current events).

Philosopher Award: rhombus
Every once in a while, a new member comes along who puts a lot of thought into what he posts and is willing to share his wisdom with everyone. This year, that type of new member is definitely rhombus. I've enjoyed reading all of the various subjects he's had to talk about over the past year, and I hope to see him stay with us for quite a while longer.

Proactive Award: Dalekdino
In addition to all of the fanart he's been making, he has also contributed a lot to the "Caption This" section (some of which have even inspired a few fanartists, recently). rhombus has also contributed to that section as well, so he deserves an honorable mention here.

Role Play Gamer Award: N/A
I do not follow the RPG section, so I will be skipping this vote.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: RockingScorpion on September 05, 2014, 11:43:23 AM
So, I guess if I really want to vote, I need to do that now, because next week I won't have time for that due to reasons (like, swimming in the Red Sea :D )

Anyway, here goes:

~Fanart Award
Probably the easiest decision for me. Considering things like the art quality (clean outlines, well done coloring), improvement (when two pieces look like they've been made by two different persons because of that), presentation (a good-looking digital version is important, too) and regularly updates, my vote here goes to Ducky123.

~Feedback Award
This one was more difficult to me. I had to check a lot of topics before, but in the end I feel that the one who qualifies the most would be rhombus. He posts in a lot of topics where feedback can be given and isn't afraid to tell someone when he thinks that improvement is possible. And he also does that in a kind way, which is also important if you don't want to discourage people (I know what I'm talking about here - art classes lead by a professional can be like that xD).
I also feel like I should mention Ducky123 here, since he writes reviews in my art thread regularly.

~Friendly Member Award
This was easier for me again. My vote goes to Ducky123, since he was the first one who approached me directly (to tell me I made a typo or something :D) but war also very kind to me back then when I was still a newbie, and he's the one from this community I'm having the most contact with right now.

~Helpful Member Award
I hope you're allowed to give three votes to the same person, because once again, the one who really welcomed me here and explained to me what makes this forum different from all the other ones, like awards, the ranking system, user titles and so on was Ducky123.

~Philosopher Award
I'm not someone to write long posts with a lot of thinking involved while writing them, but I do like to read them from time to time. My vote here goes to rhombus, who is very well informed when it comes to a lot of subjects.

~Proactive Award
My vote here goes to Dalekdino. He has a somewhat insane output when it comes to new threads, posts and whatnot, and all of them deserved to be made as far as I can tell. To be honest, I think it's almost crazy in a good way, because I always was someone who kept his posts and threads to an absolute minimum.

~Role Play Gamer Award
This is the only one I sadly need to skip because I don't really know anything about it. One more week might've changed that, but as I said, I won't be able to vote next week.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Mumbling on September 05, 2014, 04:07:40 PM
Because of my inactivity on the GoF and having virtually no time to spend online next to checking my email, I will not participate in this years awards. Good luck to everyone else :)
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Kor on September 05, 2014, 08:34:42 PM
Feedback Award (noticed that I mislabled my 2nd vote above, meant the 2nd fanart to be feedback, but that's ok.    Ducky123          Gets my vote since among all the folks who post in the fanart section I noticed he tends to post the most often, among all of those who post, or like me and seldom post though we do look at fanart some of us seldom post.  And I assume most artists enjoy feedback, especially from fellow artists.

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Friendly Member Award:       Chiletrek   Gets my vote since I have enjoyed our IM conversations over the years, and still do to this day.  We've talked many times on a wide variety of subjects, tv shows, cartoons, and many other subjects.  I look forward to our conversations we have almost every day, when bot of us have time.


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Helpful Member Award:     Nick22   gets my vote since he has been of help with some rp post ideas, and other things, over the years we have been talking on im.  And he has been of help in other ways also over the years I've been on the forum.  I look forward to talking to him when we both have time to talk online.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Nick22 on September 06, 2014, 12:56:36 AM
Friendly Member- My Vote goes to RHOMBUS for his contributions in the after Midnight Sections, where he is respectful to people but also not afraid to voice his opinion, this also goes for his imput in the rping games he is in.
 Philosopher- There are quite a few philosophers on this board, and i usually give my vote to Malte out of inertia, because he usually has a lot to contribute, but not this year.  this year  my vote in this category goes to RHOMBUS, again for his discussion on history as well as his other contributions to the forum,
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Kor on September 06, 2014, 08:11:24 PM
Philosopher:    The Chronicler    

I choose this person to get my vote, though it was a hard choice due to his posts in the history section, which I've read, even though I've not posted much in that section.  His many posts I've enjoyed reading, as well as others who have posted in the section also. And not just his responses, but he has started some threads in the history section also.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Malte279 on September 07, 2014, 03:53:18 AM
I think three members in particular have been active with fanart this year. Dalekdino, Ducky123 and RockingScorpion. Dalekdino has been the one who posted most fanart and Ducky123 has posted many a very well done drawing too. My vote for the fanart award goes to RockingScorpion however, because I consider the quality of his art really unsurpased in terms of quality and variability. Both in gray-shades and in color and most of his art is strictly LBT which (without any offense meant) is my personal favorite over cross-over art.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Malte279 on September 07, 2014, 06:44:45 AM
Feedback turns out to be tricky for me this year. Our main artists this year, RockingScorpion, Ducky123 and Dalekdino are, along with rhombus and CeraTheRed, also the most frequent posters giving feedback and discussing art. With most art being really good it is kind of tricky to spot posts which apart from well deserved and easily given praise for the art are also giving some kind of constructive criticism to help with the further  improvement of future art. I spotted one such post from landbeforetimelover and also some from DarkHououmon, CeraTheRed and Chiletrek. I do have to admit that this is one case where a truly absolutely objective and fair vote ranking one feedback giver over the others is pretty much impossible. The main reason for my choice is that reading through a thread the constructive criticism of one critic apparently had the most direct effect on the work of one of our artists which is why my vote for the Feedback Award goes to CeraTheRed.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Kor on September 07, 2014, 09:55:08 PM
Proactive   Rhombus   Gets my vote this year since from what I've seen he has posted on a wide variety of subjects, including starting threads himself on a wide variety of subjects in a wide variety of sections, history, caption this, and many others which helps to keep those sections active and members looking at and posting to them.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Nick22 on September 08, 2014, 08:20:34 PM
RPing _ As the Admin of this section, it is often difficult to pick out  the best rper, since we have a number of accomplished rpers here./Kor, Serris, brekclub, LBT, Belmont, Pterano and Rhombus, are all very deserving, but since since I have to pick some one, this year i will go with PTERANO. Pterano has been one of those rpers most involved with the "Into the Black' and "Racing the Storm" storylines. He is an excellent rper, and imo deserves this years award.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Serris on September 09, 2014, 04:43:49 AM
I'll get to the others in a bit.

Philosopher - Rhombus. His breadth and depth of knowledge is matched only by his respect for other members.

RPer - Pterano, nick, LB&T and Kor are among the many talented RPers, I have had the pleasure of gaming with. It is for this reason that this is the category that is the hardest to choose a candidate. However, after much deliberation, I nominate bushwacked. He not only enriches the setting but also provides excellent opportunities for the other characters to develop.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Nick22 on September 09, 2014, 06:22:47 PM
Feedback- my vote in this category goes to SERRIS. He is always willing to give feedback for ideas, mostly on rps, but is also active in the Party Room thread Ask the characters.
proactive-  given the sheer number of posts he has, Its not a surprise I'm going with KOR. Kor always has something to say on any topic, and his post count (near 30000) proves that hes not only a prolific poster but that he always has something to say.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Kor on September 09, 2014, 08:57:10 PM
Roleplayer Award:   Pterano I'll vote for him this year, even though I've had fun over the past year with many rp's.  He has started rp's I've had fun with.  There have been others also, though I'll forgot some so I don't like to mention names of all the ones I've had fun rping with the past year, since I don't want to forget your name.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Serris on September 10, 2014, 01:29:37 AM
Fanart - Skip as I have not looked at any fanart.

Feedback Award - I nominate LB&T as he provides many of the RPers with detailed feedback about everything ranging from plots to posting styles and more. And he does it in a manner that is both helpful and respectful.

Friendly Member Award - This award is my least favorite to choose because there are simply so many friendly people on the forum. But my choice has to go to nick22, who always has a kind word for anyone who might need someone to talk to.

Helpful Member Award - I nominate LB&T for this award. His feedback has proven immensely helpful in both my storywriting and RPing.

Proactive Award - Kor is my top pick for this award. He is not only extremely active throughout the forums, but he often has something to say about nearly every topic.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Malte279 on September 10, 2014, 09:34:55 AM
While I haven't been on the supporting side of the initiative myself there has been a change in the style of the GOF this year switching the board icons from screenshots to clearer pixel art design. The same member who made the suggestion (which was decided upon in a pol) also produced the art for the change and was very active, friendly and open for constructive criticism and acting upon it during the whole initiative.
For all this my vote for the Proactive Member Award goes to RockingScorpion.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Pterano on September 11, 2014, 06:10:53 PM
Fanart Award: Skip. I really just don't look at fanart much, sorry guys.


Feedback Award: Bushwacked
This member has been helping out a lot of others with feedback and critiques on their fanfics, and does it while he's at school too! That's dedication and devotion right there, and I feel he most assuredly deserves this award for 2014. It was a hard vote, but narrowing it down, I'm going with Bushwacked.

Friendly Member Award: Ducky123
This one came down to the wire between Bushwacked, rhombus, and Ducky123, but I went with the last one in the end. He shows concern for others when they're going through bad times, and was even nice enough to draw me a picture when I was quite depressed. :) It's little things like that that just goes the extra mile for me, so in the end, despite there being many deserving candidates, he gets my vote.

Helpful Member Award: LB&T
This was pretty easy for me, though as always, there were several runners up. LB&T will always offer advice, even if he feels a member isn't necessarily following board rules or is doing something a little out there. That makes him stand out to me, and he was a pretty clear choice for me for this award.

Philosopher Award: Rhombus
Without a doubt the philosopher of the board this year. Jansenov was a close runner up, but Rhombus has not only started threads of his own, he adds to discussions in constructive ways, never attacks other members, and uses well thought out logic to back his points up.

Proactive Award: Skip. I haven't been on the board enough this year to accurately gauge who has really helped it out the most.


Role Play Gamer Award: Bushwhacked
While LB&T, Serris, Nick22, and Kor are all good roleplayers, I have to say Bushwacked really has stood out to me as an impressive roleplayer with well thought out posts, brilliant writing, a very realistic and believable style of writing, and an approach that leaves plenty of opportunities for others to respond with whatever they may feel like.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: vonboy on September 12, 2014, 07:20:38 AM
This is gonna be a little harder for me this year, since I haven't really been around the forum as much as I used to. You could probably already tell, though, by me waiting till the last day to vote :p

Role-Play Gamer Award: I'm really gonna have to go with Ducky123 on this. He's running the only role-play that I'm in right now, and doing a pretty good job at it.

Feedback Award:Ducky123 gets my vote for this one, too. I've just seen him post a lot of well thought out, and helpful feedback, including some friendly fixes for grammar, typos, and the like. I've mostly seen his feedback for The Seven Hunters, because that's the fanfiction I've been mostly following these past few months. Again, I just have to base my vote on what I see, and I see him reviewing every chapter of that story.

Fanart Award:Dalekdino has drawn a metric ton of fanart this year, for his re imaging of the first movie with him as a character in it, and also the gang meeting their human forms. I think it's quality over quantity, though. A lot of his art looks rushed to me. I think it would turn out much better if he drew less art, but gave each one the time it deserves to really make them great. Ducky123 has drawn some great art, too, expecially her EEEEVVVVIIIILLLL DUCKY one, which I love, but I've already voted for her twice. RockingScorpian has really been drawing some really great art this year. He (or her? Please don't kill me! :confused) really puts a ton of work and detail into their work. That member get's my vote this year. Also forgot this member drew the new pixelated icons for new posts/no new posts.

Philosopher Award: Rhombis has been having some great discussions on the board, as well as other members, but I have to go with Jansenov here. He's still surprising me with his ability to talk at length about all kind of subjects, and give suggestions or point out things in other's words that nobody else sees.

Friendly Member Award: This is a really tough one, as mnay other people have pointed out. This community is such a friendly place, it's so hard to narrow it down to just one person. Ducky123 and Rhombus have both been extremely friendly, and talkative, being very inviting to other people on the forum. In the end, Rhombus wins out for me. He's also been very talkative with me lately, and we've been having lots of conversation about eachother's fanfics, and just joking around.

Proactive Member Award In the past, I would vote for Nick22, whose just made an immeanse ammount of posts on this board, and still finds time to moderate, but I'm going with Dalekdino this time around. He's been posting a lot on this forum in the year or so(?) he's been here. Some of his posts are funny, and he's been putting up a lot of images for the caption this section. While his most might not be as long or as fancy as those from the likes of Jansanov or Rhombus, he's also not down to the level of spamming for the heck of it, like some other members here are or were (which will remain unnamed! :p). I say we need more people like him, and glad that he's doing his part to keep this place alive.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Ducky123 on September 12, 2014, 10:36:50 AM
Role Play Award:

This award was by far the most difficult decision for me as there are a few fellow roleplayers whose efforts, quality of posts and input of ideas has been very high this year.
bushwacked has recently shown that he's quite capable of writing very detailed posts, using a very good language and gives a good insight into the thoughts of his characters. I particularly appreciate his constant input of feedback and he's always reminding me to remind people to post :lol
Pterano is successfully leading some RP's lately and his posts are usually very good, detailed and well thought of.
Rhombus shows his amazing writing skills not only in fanfiction but also in the RP that is based on his fanfiction.
In the end, I have to go with bushwacked for his efforts to keep my RP going as well as the fact that he's probably the most remarking newcomer to the Role Play Forum of the GoF this year have inspired me to nominate him :)

Proactive Award:

Dalekdino gets my vote for his widespread activity in numerous areas of the GoF. I also would like to point out the constant activity of Kor which helps keeping the forum going a lot :) Another mention goes to RockingScorpion for his lovely pixel art for the post/no post feature :)

EDIT: Just fixed a typo
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Malte279 on September 12, 2014, 11:54:32 AM
A pox on y'all (way to open a vote on the friendly member award) for the amount of friendliness that renders any decision on the award referring to said quality so highly subjective and interchangeable. Also some who I ultimately decided to be the narrow circle of friendliness so highly condensed as for me to cast the vote have not voted themselves so far (and the vote is closing soon). Many have rightfully pointed out and voted for the friendliness of Ducky123. One can also not talk properly about awesome friendliness on the GOF without naming Pangaea as one of the most caring members we have ever had. Truly, it would be a pleasure to get to know you better via chats. As for members I know personally Jason Littlefoot1616 will always be a face appearing right beside the entry on the term "friendliness" in my mind's encyclopedia. Finally my highly subjective vote (again, it is a matter of having to settle for someone as it is the nature of a vote that it cannot be dispersed however equal candidates may be) goes to a friend with whom I have had many a great chat on matters of joy, sadness and interest thoughout the past year and whom I hope to meet in persona one day. My vote for the friendly member award goes to jansenov.


Remember everyone THE END IS NIGH the vote on the regular awards is closing soon that is and anyone who hasn't voted on at least five awards (in which case the vote on the impending Appreciated Member award must be cast) will not be allowed to receive any award (no matter how many votes he or she got).
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: jansenov on September 12, 2014, 03:11:00 PM
For the fanart award I vote for RockingScorpion. The detail of his art is exquisite, particularly the way he draws Ducky catches me off-guard sometimes. But he is not without competition. Since Ducky123 is still improving, and StrutEggStealer and Murmur haven't been active in a long time, and DarkHououmon and Sky in a longer time still, this year my vote goes to him.

This year the feedback award I would like to have given to Ducky123. If anything you post is remotely of any interest to the GOF public, chances are he will appear with something constructive or fun to say. For over more than a year now Ducky123 has been one of the greater supporters of activity on the GOF, and for that I express my gratitude.

The proactive member award seems to be a hotly contested prize this year, but in the end I vote for Dalekdino to receive this award. He's started a number of interesting discussions on LBT, and this deserves recognition.

For the helpful member award, also a highly contested prize, I will nominate Pangaea. He hasn't been posting much, but on numerous occasions he has been of great help to people searching for information or ideas.

I have one complaint against the person who I am about to nominate for the philosopher award, and that is that he is not showing his full capabilities. He is rhombus, a very versatile author of many (perhaps most) of this and part of last year's deepest thoughts written on the forum's virtual paper. What stands above all, however, is the eloquence with which highly abstract concepts have been presented to us mortals.

For the friendly member award I nominate CeraTheRed. I find her to be a very agreeable person, and her posts can be funny and helpful, but in the main they are easy on the eyes and always a mood lifter.

For the roleplayer award I nominate LettuceBacon&Tomato. Since there are a number of good roleplayers, the reason I chose him is the way he writes about female characters, who are believable, edgy and interesting.


Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Pangaea on September 12, 2014, 03:26:03 PM
It fills me with regret to say that, for the first time in five years, I will not be participating in the GOF Awards. I simply have not been active enough over the past year to make any judgements on who I believe to be the most qualifying member for any of the rewards, and I would not consider it fair to anyone if I were to attempt to make those decisions based on my extremely limited personal interactions with other members, or a cursory review of the past year's forum activity made at the last minute.

Even though I will not be taking part in the award voting this year, I am very pleased to see that they are taking place as usual. I greatly enjoy and appreciate the GOF Awards, and dearly hope that my non-participation this year will not contribute to a lack of awards next year. Good luck to all members who are eligible for nomination, and thank you to all members who take part in the voting. :yes
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Zimba on September 12, 2014, 08:11:00 PM
Sorry if this is the wrong one to post this but.

I would like to just skip voting this year.

I don't really interact with other members or am very active so voting will be hard for me when I barely know anyone or what they tend to do.

So if possible,I'll just like to skip all voting this year,I'm not really interested in winning awards anyway.
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: LoyfeCycleProtector on September 12, 2014, 08:15:21 PM
I nominate Ducky123 for most friendly member, seeing as he's always been good at keeping constant, positive contact with me.

For most proactive member, I nominate Nick22, who's been good at roping me back into this forum after a long time of busy absence.

And for best roleplayer, I nominate Chiletrek for his great roleplaying in The Lost Tale of Eymreil.

For Fanart I nominate DalekDino, who's drawn a huge amount of stuff.

I'll skip most helpful and best feedback this year.

And for Best Philosopher, I'll go with Rhombus, who gives incredibly mature, well researched posts that are a joy to read.

Great year, guys!
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Nahla on September 12, 2014, 08:50:35 PM
Heres the rest of mine before I forget.

~Friendly Member Award-Ducky123,has stuck with be through all the ups and downs,he has supoorted me and  not only in fanfiction and stuff like that. But lifes problems as a whole,when ever I need someone to rant out on thing on I know I can count on Ducky123 to listen to me,even when I'm not making any sense. I jokingly call him my 'internet brother' because that's what he feels like to me. Most on GOF are friendly but in the end,when I need it most it's Ducky123 who is there for me. Therefore I nominate him for this award.

~Helpful Member Award-Ah helpful..the one thing I am not. This was a super hard one for me. Honestly I barely know most GOF members,I'm pretty much a background character,I'm there but at the same time I don't do much to interact with anyone. My vote goes to Ducky123 because he is indeed helpful,like I stated before both in my written projects and  real life problems. I've also seen how he always tries to help others to the best of his abilities,we really do need more Ducky123's in the world. Always trying to help others and I think he deserves this award because of all the help he has not given only me,but others as well.

~Philosopher Award-I'm going to go for rhombus this year. I admire his way of logical thinking. He proves his point without downright attacking others,even when it is like another World War he remains calm and uses his head to think instead of just losing his anger and typing nonsense to prove he is right. He is the kind of person I would rather listen to and believe instead of someone who just sates their own opinion as fact and attacks when you disagree. rhombus respects others opinions though they might not always be true,he does not yell at us telling us how wrong we are.

~Proactive Award-Skipping no clue to be honest.

~Role Play Gamer Award-Hmm who to vote for to steal my title from last year...(kidding). I have put a lot of into this and in the end I'm going for bushwacked,his RP style is amazing and his posts really do help move the story along. Though I am really currently in only one RP (A Sudden Change of Species) I do follow other RPS I am not in and there is  a lot of good Role Players on here and in turn my choice was very difficult. But this year my vote goes to bushwacked.


Edit: I noticed I spelled some things wrong so I fixed them,sorry
Title: Award voting 2014
Post by: Malte279 on September 15, 2014, 03:18:48 PM
I apologize for the delay with the further proceedings of the awards. All admins are really more hooked up by their jobs than we have ever been in preceeding years. I will look into the counting and possible tiebreaking votes before the start of the appreciated member awards as soon as I can.