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New drafts of old awards

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Hi!
As announced elsewhere the drafts of the old awards have been edited so as to make them more readable (script either in black or white) and to adapt the wording to the newer style which is meant to be not as exclusive by using superlatives (after all I don't think we ever had a case where the vote on an award was unanimous and sometimes it was almost a deadlock). The winners of the last two votes are asked to replace the old awards in their signatures with the new versions.
Here they are.
For Littlefoot-1616 here is the new Friendly Member Award of 2006:

For Littlefoot Fan here is the Newby Award of 2006 (as the newby of 2007 seems to be no longer around and no further newby awards are to be issued you are the only one around to have one, so bear it with pride ;)):

For Adam here is the Proactive Member Award of 2006:

And last but not least here is the new draft of the RPG Award of 2006 for Threehorn:


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For KingdomKey23, here is the new draft of the Friendly Member Award 2007:

For Lain_Ex, here is the new Gamer Award of 2007:

For action9000, here is the new Helpful Member Award of 2007:

For DarkHououmon, here is the new Philosopher Award of 2007:

For Ratiasu, here is the new Proactive Member Award of 2007:

And for Threehorn, here is the new Role Play Gamer Award of 2007:


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And here are the new drafts of the Awards for the participants in singing projects.
For Action9000, Amethyst, Littlefoot Fan, Petrie, and Tobeysan, the If we hold on together award:

For Action9000 and Petrie, the Always There award:

For Action9000, Petrie, and SaphireRaptor, the No one has to be alone award:

For Action9000, Petrie, Pokeplayer984, and SaphireRaptor, the Lone Dinosaur Award:

And for Action9000, DarkHououmon, Dash the Longneck, Flathead770, KingdomKey23, landbeforetimelover, Littlefoot-1616, Pokeplayer984, SaphireRaptor, and Stitch, the Bestest Friends Award:

It shouldn't take too long anymore before drafts for Things Change will be ready and issued to the participants in our last singing project.


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Those awards look pretty good, however is it all right if I keep the bestest friends award with green text?  It shows up pretty well because it was made with contrasting colors.


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Those awards look pretty good, however is it all right if I keep the bestest friends award with green text? It shows up pretty well because it was made with contrasting colors.
Sorry, it took me a long time to respond. First I forgot to ask in the staff room, then there was some discussion in the staff room.
In case of the singing awards, where the wording remained unchanged there is probably no real problem if you prefer the older drafts (except for readability in some cases).
In case of the other awards, please decide for the new ones. In most cases they are really more readable and their wording is less problematic in some cases. :)


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:lol   so you mean you actually talk shop admist all the wild partying in there?   :p  :lol


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