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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => Topic started by: Petrie. on April 28, 2009, 06:57:54 PM
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We're still working on them. Voting will commence shortly! Stay tuned.
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cool, sounds exciting!
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Awesome! :smile
Just curious though, how does the voting work?
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theresd a list of awards and you pick the poster you think best deaserves the honor in each catergory. try and vote for as many of the awards as you can..
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i'm so excited! i hope i get nominated this year, not to influence anybody though :D
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Cool, I've never voted here before. Just wondering, do you guys have an exact date in mind?
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Just wondering, do you guys have an exact date in mind?
We don't have a date ready yet. It really is a lot of work to create all the drafts, or rather to pick out the screenshots which are suitable for the awards (the making of the draft itself is not so tricky ones one has a suitable image). I had hoped that perhaps some more images would be uploaded at Austin's place which could be used for the making of awards. Images of the movies 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and the TV series would be especially welcome as they have not or barely been used so far for awards.
Exact rules for the voting will be posted when the voting starts. There are a few rules which must be observed. For example it is not enough to just name a person and an award, but one also must write a couple of lines on why one thinks that the respective person deserves that award. Without those lines the vote doesn't count. There are some more rules, but they will be posted along with the list of awards (a few little changes are to come about the awards to be issued) when the voting session starts.
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I think this 2009 Awards won't be a Special one for me though but who knows I may get something but it not likely I can feel it. I don't want to beat up myself because of this but I feel like I did something horrible can't figure out what it is but I just feel guilty.
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Don't feel bad neo. I've never won an award from here, in 5 years of being here..
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Don't feel bad neo. I've never won an award from here, in 5 years of being here..
Thanks Nick I'll try be on the positive side of things.
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All I know is the nominees must have been members for at least one year by the voting date, unless the rules have changed.
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Oh man! I seriously can't wait for this to be ready. I've got a few choices in mind already. ;)
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All I know is the nominees must have been members for at least one year by the voting date, unless the rules have changed.
Nope, that rule never existed. It is one month and 100 posts that qualify anyone to vote.
In fact there was a "newby award" to be voted upon only for candidates who had been around for less than a year.
This year however the "newby award" is to be substituted by an "appreciated member award". We have had so many newbies last year with so many of them having become so integral part of the GOF already that hardly anyone would still perceive them as "newbys".
The "appreciated member award" is to be voted upon once all the other awards are issued. It is meant to be only for those who did not win any other award. There are many GOF members who don't outshine everyone within any of the fields the awards are assigned to, but who are very active members and without whom the GOF would just not exist. The "appreciated member award" is meant to be for them.
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All I know is the nominees must have been members for at least one year by the voting date, unless the rules have changed.
Nope, that rule never existed. It is one month and 100 posts that qualify anyone to vote.
In fact there was a "newby award" to be voted upon only for candidates who had been around for less than a year.
This year however the "newby award" is to be substituted by an "appreciated member award". We have had so many newbies last year with so many of them having become so integral part of the GOF already that hardly anyone would still perceive them as "newbys".
The "appreciated member award" is to be voted upon once all the other awards are issued. It is meant to be only for those who did not win any other award. There are many GOF members who don't outshine everyone within any of the fields the awards are assigned to, but who are very active members and without whom the GOF would just not exist. The "appreciated member award" is meant to be for them.
Ah.. That's a better award than the newbie one :yes
I guess I'll try to vote this year. ;)
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I really hope I can vote, it would be my first time doing so.
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Interesting, I hope I'll be taking part. Doubt I'm into nominations, but it'll be interesting to see, nonetheless!
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It would also be my first time, lets see how it will be.
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Hmm, I might try and vote for a few of the categories this time around, although I can be a little indecisive at times. Added to that fact that I've not been terribly active of late...hmm. I'll have a think.
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Will be my first time voting for nominations as well. I'll be sure to vote when the time alows it. :yes
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The more participate the better :)
I really hope I can vote, it would be my first time doing so.
No doubt you are more than a month around and distinctly more than a 100 posts.
Hmm, I might try and vote for a few of the categories this time around, although I can be a little indecisive at times.
That's the tough part. Sometimes it is really extremely difficult to make up ones mind. However, as each award vote has to come with some explanatory lines (they are obligatory) one can also mention other members one had in mind for an award, even if one decides not to vote for them. That way one can still give credit to them and also remind everyone of what different members have done in the GOF throughout the last year.
To give an additional incentive to vote, only those who have cast their own votes may receive an award, even if they are voted for. If someone got most votes for an award but did not cast the own votes the award will go to the voter who got the most votes (even if they may be less than in case of someone who did not vote).
Anyway, the complete rules (and also the basic explanations on what each award is about) will be posted when the voting starts.
Thank you very much Kor for the link to your land before time screenshots which you sent me :)
Two of them have already been used in drafts for LBT awards by now.
Further screenshots for the purpose of creating awards are greatly appreciated. To be suited for an award screenshots mustn't have a character cut off on both edges. We try to use images which in some way relate to what the award is about. So far images from the movies 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, and the TV series have rarely been used in awards. Any supplying of images to help creating the awards is greatly appreciated. :yes
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I voted last year, and I'll certainly be voting again this year. Like last year, I'm not expecting to win any awards. The way I see it, I'm just not well-known enough. Sure, I'm here every day and at any time possible, but I've made few contributions to this place. I'm just not one of those volunteer types. But, to tell you the truth, I won't mind even going my whole life without winning an award.
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I voted last year, and I'll certainly be voting again this year. Like last year, I'm not expecting to win any awards. The way I see it, I'm just not well-known enough. Sure, I'm here every day and at any time possible, but I've made few contributions to this place. I'm just not one of those volunteer types. But, to tell you the truth, I won't mind even going my whole life without winning an award.
Well, that is not necessarily true. i didn't think I would win an award last year, either, but as I counted the votes for Games, I saw my username appear a lot, and I won. So don't count your chickens/ducks/dragons/dinosaurs/platypuses before they hatch.
EDIT: Also, Malte, thanks for fixing that image thing.
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wow, I just barley qualify to vote, I'll only have been here for 3 months starting next Tuesday (Cinco de Mayo, as a matter of fact). I don't expect to even have a vote in my favor let alone win anything so I'm not concerned about that, but choosing who to vote for is going to be rough. I'm so indecisive about little things, plus I haven't gotten to know all of you that well yet.
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Ah, choices, choices. It's far too easy to get lost in a single decision and continue weighing its facets into eternity. I'll try to be a little more timely about it, though :lol
And I will certainly be voting. This is exciting!
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I don't think I can even vote yet. Its a shame, my opinions are quite hilarious :lol
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You can Nanana, you've been here just under two months and you've surpassed the 100 post requirement.
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There should be a "Funniest Member" award :idea :yes.
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There is one for those active in the partyroom :yes :)
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There should be a "Funniest Member" award :idea :yes.
Problem is every post I've read personally, we take ourselves quite seriously. I'd have no clue who to vote for. Most would also chime in I'm much more laid back on funny on IM than I am here.
There is one for those active in the partyroom
That will be one of the changes...that award will not be offered in 2009.
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Ah well. You're right about the funniest member though, I know people who are really serious on the forum while actually real funny on MSN or in real life.
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One thing about the Party Room is that by now the huge majority of the games there proves nothing more than that we know our alphabet and even among the many caption this threads there are few captions which are actual "knee-slappers". Last year already a majority decided not to cast a vote on the Gamer Award (by the rules one is permitted to skip up to two awards and still qualify for an award so people are not forced to vote on an award where they really don't know whom to vote for; for example the many who don't play RPGs are not very competent to name someone for the RPG award). Therefore we decided to discontinue it.
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This sounds like fun I can't wait.
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More images to pick from for the award drafting would really be of great help and may accelerate the process of draft making. Images fitting for the fanart and project award are particularly sparse as there are not too many scenes (scenes not yet used in awards already) which could refer to art. I think there are some suitable scenes for example in the TV-series episodes "The Canyon of the Shining Stones" and "Search for the Sky Color Stones". If anyone has screenshots from those episodes (or of the TV series in general) it would be really great if you could make them available (through photobucket or Austin's LBT picture collection) so they can be used for awards :yes
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Yay, I can vote! :DD
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I could get a few screen shots together tomorrow if you still need them malte, I have time then. I don't know how well the the tv episode ones will come out though, I only have the low quality ones from LBTL's server.
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That would be really great raga :yes
The need for pictures is still there. The quality of the pictures is not overly crucial in this case. As the pictures are down-scaled very much for the purpose of award drafting (so they end up at a height of a mere 50 pixels) even lower quality screenshots will do.
Thank you very much for your help :)
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are their any qualifications needed to vote
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I went through the two episodes you mentioned Malte, tell me if there any good or if you want more from other episodes/movies.
Link: http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/571635809tFFCMt (http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/571635809tFFCMt)
are their any qualifications needed to vote
Minimum one month of membership and minimum 100 posts
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Wow. Time passed really fast (hey, it rhymes). ^^
Can't wait to vote. :DD
Looks like I can't defend my title since I barely draw any LBT pics... or being that much online. Ahahaha...ha? o_O XD
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Thanks a lot raga. There are some which I think can really work out for an award :yes
Due to family business (a 50th birthday celebration) I won't be able to do anything today, but in general the more screenshots for awards we get the sooner Tim and I will probably have the selection for this year finished.
PS: uhm... I just noticed it is impossible for the pictures to be downloaded unless one has a registered account on that page (something I usually avoid because all too often I made the experience of free registered accounts on various online resources being a trigger for unwanted mail :unsure:). Do you happen to have a photobucket account too raga?
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Just out of curiosity, does the fanart award include fanfictions as well?
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Thanks a lot raga. There are some which I think can really work out for an award :yes
Due to family business (a 50th birthday celebration) I won't be able to do anything today, but in general the more screenshots for awards we get the sooner Tim and I will probably have the selection for this year finished.
PS: uhm... I just noticed it is impossible for the pictures to be downloaded unless one has a registered account on that page (something I usually avoid because all too often I made the experience of free registered accounts on various online resources being a trigger for unwanted mail :unsure:). Do you happen to have a photobucket account too raga?
You could make a PrintScreen shot of it. The quality is the same, so you'd just have to crop the images on Paint or so.
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Uh-oh. I realized you need to have joined at least a month before and have at least 100 posts. I have nearly 400 posts, but I joined April 8th, 2009. :slap
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We're not voting just yet. I'm not sure when exactly we will be voting, but who knows, you might end up just barely becoming eligible to vote. (you only need to wait until May 8th)
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Just out of curiosity, does the fanart award include fanfictions as well?
Nope, it does not cover fanfiction. Also we are not going to create a fanfiction award. Most people won't read every fanfiction out there and everyone would have to do just that in order to give a good judgement on all the fanfictions.
There will be a thorough explanation on what all the awards are about though :)
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Do you happen to have a photobucket account too raga?
well I do now :p http://s733.photobucket.com/albums/ww338/raga91/ (http://s733.photobucket.com/albums/ww338/raga91/)
Sorry it took so long to respond though, my cousin was having her first communion today so I was in Jersey. I'm a bit beat but I'll go through another episode now, I've got it in me.
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Hey Malte-
I would be willing to go through movie 10 for screenshots tomorrow if you'd like. Should I just look for screen grabs that seem to illustrate the award categories?
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I went through another episode, only got a few more pics that might work though.
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I put my photobucket lbt pictures into better order. Not organized very well, nor by what movie or episode they are from, but in other categories.
I have some shots of from the 10th movie. Nothing special, some of Bron, Shorty, Sue, various shots of un named long necks, 1-2 of the belly dragger.
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Thank you very much raga, DarkWolf, and Kor :)
Sorry it took so long to respond though, my cousin was having her first communion today so I was in Jersey. I'm a bit beat but I'll go through another episode now, I've got it in me.
Don't worry, I have not been online myself much this weekend as there was a 50th birthday to celebrate in the family. Thank you very much for the images you took and for creating that photobucket account :yes
Hey Malte-
I would be willing to go through movie 10 for screenshots tomorrow if you'd like. Should I just look for screen grabs that seem to illustrate the award categories?
Awesome that would be cool. All pictures of of general interest (if uploaded to a photobucket account that is made public, images may be helpful for LBT projects other than the award making as well). As for award images, one criterion for exclusion would be if characters are "cut off" on both edges of the image as one edge of the image is usually copy pasted and blurred over the part of the award that bears the inscription. We try to use images which in some way refer to what the award is about. We are trying to make enough drafts so every winner of an award will have a choice between at least two different drafts to pick from. While we don't have an "upper limit" to the number of awards, the awards for which we haven't reached the bottom limit of drafts yet are the following awards:
-friendly member
-fanart
-project
-helpful
-roleplaygamer
-appreciated member
Images that could be interpreted to match these categories would therefore be particularly welcome, but all images we get can be helpful :yes
I have some shots of from the 10th movie. Nothing special, some of Bron, Shorty, Sue, various shots of un named long necks, 1-2 of the belly dragger.
Thanks a lot Kor :)
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Alright, thanks for the info! I'll get to work, then :)
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Uh-oh. I realized you need to have joined at least a month before and have at least 100 posts. I have nearly 400 posts, but I joined April 8th, 2009. :slap
We're still not ready. We give about two weeks for voting, so you'd be eligible to vote anyway in some piece of that timeframe.
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I just added a new screen shot that I think might work for roleplayer, who knows.
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Thank you very much DarkWolf91! This is really appreciated a lot :yes
Thanks also to Kor and raga. Several of your images have been put to good purpose by now and they have been really helpful with the shortage of images for the fanart and projects award in particular :yes
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Phew!
Went through half of the movie, and that's about all I can do for now. I'm beat! :lol
Might have gone a little overboard... But I really can't help being thorough :slap
Anyways, part two should be up by tonight or tomorrow! For now, enjoy the first half!
http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/Dar...010%20Part%201/ (http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/DarkWolf91/LBT%2010%20Part%201/)
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wow darkwolf, you really went crazy there! I think I will go through the 11th movie, or least some of it. That will have to wait till I get home though, i don't have any of the movies on my laptop.
Edit: well i just so happen to be leaving right now, so I'll get started in like 10 min.
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Thank you very much darkwolf :)
I like your new Shorty signature by the way, great job.
By now more award drafts have been created and unless I miscounted anything the only award for which we still absolutely must have further drafts is the friendly member award (though in case of every other award it is still the more the better as this allows for the winner to pick from a larger selection of awards).
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Haha, yeah... I think I took around three screenshots a minute. I couldn't help it! All of the scenes looked so cool! :lol
I like your new Shorty signature by the way, great job.
Oh, thanks! It was a lot of fun to draw. And it's good to switch things up every now and then, I suppose :)
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What are you looking for in the friendly member award?
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The friendly member award in your signature is a good inspiration Kor ;)
But of course we are not using scenes twice. Anything where characters hug in any way appear on very friendly terms or where a character is doing something friendly or looking extremely friendly will work.
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Phew! Okay, here's the last batch of 'em! Wow, that took some doing :lol
http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/Dar...010%20Part%202/ (http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a352/DarkWolf91/LBT%2010%20Part%202/)
Enjoy! I hope somebody finds these useful, even though most of them wouldn't work for awards :D
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Great DarkWolf! :)
If you take any more shots of LBT 10 we can soon make a flip-book of the entire movie :lol
The images have been really helpful and several (not all I have picked for the purpose) have been turned into award drafts already.
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I've went through part of #11, I'll post either in a little bit or sometime tomorrow. I finish it eventually, but it dosen't seem high priority and I'm kinda falling ill. No fever (yet, 97.9 at 5pm, 99.0 now) but my throat is killing. I'm going to cower under the covers now, more to avoid the swine flu jokes than anything else. Hopefully some nyquil and a little sleep will take care of it. See you all tomorrow!
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I'm impressed how much everyone is willing to pitch in and help out. :)
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Sometimes there are funny things coming up during the creating of awards. Here is one such case I want to share with you. Take a look at this incomplete and enlarged draft for an award. What do you see?
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh475/Malte279/GOF%20Awards/fanartaward6-2.jpg)
Is it just me, or do you too see Petrie staring at you from those mirrored rocks on the right? :lol
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Wow! It is not only you. Me too can see what you can see. :)
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Haha very nice malte. I didn't see it before you mentioned it, but now I do. Nice job :p
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The only figure I can make out is Littlefoot.
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Now that you mention it...
I do see, funny! :smile
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At first I was going to say giant freaky alien thingy, but now that you mention it, ya I do see petrie.
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And Petrie sees all! :D
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I must say, that's rather creepy. :p
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Does anyone else see a freaky voodoo-like kid with a bowl cut just above the Petrie in Petrie's new avatar?
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Now that you mention it... Oh my gosh what a monster did I create :lol
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ALRIGHT!!! It's almost time again! I'm hoping to defend my title from last year....but... :smile I might have to pass the torch before I even get to light it! :DD Well...I suppose only time will tell!
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So, this has probably been asked, but when does the votation start? I'm always a little behind the latest headlines. <.<
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I must say, that's rather creepy. :p
Yeah I agree...:p Especially since Petrie's member title, "Big Petrie is Watching you" adds to the effect....has the GOF gone corrupted????!!!! Is this 1984???!!!
:lol
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Guess I'm the only one who doesn't see Petrie. Maybe I"m to old to see petrie.
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You have no idea all the evil laughs I came up with when Malte showed me the picture.
Voting will likely start this weekend...mark your calendars!
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marked it on my iphone! Than again i never check that calendar, or any calendar, so its not much help. I should start organizing better.... Na!
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Kor... Maybe you can see a petrie when I have marked the lines?
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/gofmumbling/Untitled-1-3.gif)
Hope that helps! :)
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Now it looks like a smiling fox with small ears & his eyes are closed.
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Oh hehe, you're right :p
Ah well, gave it a try at least.
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I didn't see it as "Petrie" the first time I looked at that photo either. I saw that eagle from the Muppets at first glance. :p
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Actually, I saw what looked vaguely like the vaulted ceilings in a Gothic building.
Looks like I may be contending with GVG for the Role Play Gamer Award.
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I think GVG has my vote for the Role Play award! :DD
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Let's not give out votes before the actual voting will start (by all likelihood tomorrow). Also note that during the voting it is not sufficient to give just a name for each award, but one must write some obligatory lines on why one feels a particular member should get the respective award. The exact formulation of the voting rules will in all likelihood be posted today.
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The voting process and list of voters is posted in the Fridge. If you any questions, ask here. The voting starts tomorrow.
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As for the list, once the voting starts it will regularly be updated so people can see at one look if they still have votes to cast. Names of Members who haven't yet voted will then appear in red, those who cast some votes, but not enough to qualify for the reception of an award themselves by the voting rules (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=5496) will appear in yellow, and those who have cast all of their votes or enough to qualify to receive an award will appear in green.
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Question: When it's time to vote, where do we go to vote?
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If it's like last year they'll have a special thread for voting.
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For how long will the voting last?
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They will let us know.
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last year I think it was around 14 days, if I remember correctly.
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You do Kor, and so it will be this time. There will be 14 days for the main voting and after that there will be one more week due to the nature of the newly created "Appreciated Member Award" which needs to be voted upon after it is clear who was elected in the other awards and who was not.
Also take notice of the change in the voting rules by which two rather than one award of each kind will be issued. This will increase the chance of the individual to get a vote.
A voting thread is going to be opened today and the voting can commence as soon as it will be there.
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So there will be 2 winners of each category?
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Ya Malte, I'm with Kor, what you said was a little confusing. Could you clarify?
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I'm very sorry, this is all our fault. Somehow the most important change in the voting rule must have escaped the copy pasting from the staff room to the rules (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=5496) in this section. I apologize for that mistake. The rules there are now updated. Take a look at the last point.
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no worries, no one's perfect
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Yea, that clears it up :)
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Well, its time. And its kind of a tough decision to make. It almost seems like saying the wrong vote will make a bucket of cold water drop on us. <.<
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I see, & I like the idea. & the badges not picked maybe you can use then next year so you have 2 badges already done that way.
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Well, its time. And its kind of a tough decision to make. It almost seems like saying the wrong vote will make a bucket of cold water drop on us.
The decision making can indeed be extremely difficult. Therefore it is often easier if in your explanatory lines you give credit to other members as well whom you feel would be well deserving of the award even if you must decide for someone else because of the limit of one vote per award.
With so much credit that can be given one should not think of it as buckets of cold water but rather as warm and pleasant showers offered to many :yes
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There's something I need to bring up it's about this Member Awards stuff that's held every May? Personally I think it would make more sense to hold this thing in November of every year instead of May. I mean think about it Malte the way your holding it now, leaves a good five and a half plus months left in the year.
But if you held it during the eleventh month of every year, that would leave less then two months left for that year and the remainning time would get pushed into the following years Member Awards list of names. I know it's too late to push it back until November this year, but next year's sould be held in November 2010!
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Hi Dark Pterano,
I moved your post out of the voting thread into this discussion thread.
One thing ahead, "I" am not really holding this Award voting. The original idea came from Adam, I was only the one who so far did the drafts for the awards and much of the preparation work and this year I, ended up opening the voting because Adam was absent for most of Sunday.
You are basically right of course that it would make more sense to hold that election at the end of the year. The original idea came up some time in January or February 2006 so we ended up having the voting start in March back then and it was about the same time in 2007 and 2008. This year there had been a delay because I have a lot of university work to deal with at the moment. However members were asking me about when the election would be held and I reckon they gave me the kick I needed (only figuratively speaking, they were very kind, and polite, and civil, and helpful :p) to get things prepared beside the other stuff so we could hold the election in May this year. The odd timing is really a relic from the time when the idea came up so the awards refer more to the year preceding the one of their inscription rather than the actual year of the inscription.
To shift the election to a later time in the year we would have to let members wait for a longer time. I don't know if this would be preferred.
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Well then maybe you guys could talk it over and put me in charge of it from (Starting next year) now on, because I have loads of free time on my hands. That is unless something comes up to where I couldn't do it?! In which, I'd let you or one of the others know ahead of time.
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Yeah, call it a quirky GOF tradition to vote on an award for the year in April. :p The idea was liked so much we didn't want to wait till the end of the year to do it. I had gotten the idea from another board I had visited at that time in 05-06.
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I don't see a problem with the awards being in May. Who ever said these things HAVE to line up with the calendar year? As long as a full year passes between them, it shouldn't matter weather its in November, May or even July for that matter.