[Rejected] Member of the Month

[Chloe Gallagher]

I was on a forum for Runescape a long time ago, and one of the things they did was they did a vote on Member of the Month, the winner was awarded with a signature for winning the vote.

 

I think it would work well here. Basically registered SG members are eligible and admins pick a select few that exemplify what you want on the forum and in game, things like helpfulness, following and informing others of rules and all-round being fun to play with or against.

 

Instead of a signature, since that could be very time consuming to make one every month, you could have an award given like the ones we can apply for.

 

If you wanted to, you could even take it a step further and have a raffle between the year's winners for something like a special skin or a year long subscription/VIP.

 

I think it's worth looking into since it would promote positive behavior and attitudes here on the server and forum, and it would look really good on future admin applications if someone can say that they won or were nominated for Member of the Month.

 

From my experience on the other forum, it worked really well. It never came down to a popularity contest, people were honest with their votes and it almost always went to the most deserving person.

[All Ts]

To be honest, something like this in my opinion is only going to encourage people to fake as fuck and non-productive.

 

Something that at SG we don't need any help with.

[Euro]

It never came down to a popularity contest, people were honest with their votes and it almost always went to the most deserving person.

 

Ehhhh

[Chloe Gallagher]

To be honest, something like this in my opinion is only going to encourage people to fake as fuck and non-productive.

 

Something that at SG we don't need any help with.

 

That's the thing, you would factor in how productive the member is to the community. It goes beyond simply being nice and posting in introduction threads.

@Euro sombrero it actually didn't, not often at least, maybe once a year one would come down to popularity, and that was usually when it was between 2-3 deserving people.

[All Ts]

That's the thing, you would factor in how productive the member is to the community. It goes beyond simply being nice and posting in introduction threads.

 

Basically what I'm trying to say is that it's going to turn into a "wow, this person won member of the month and not me", and upon that even if you try to make it marginally less about popularity by making it so certain staff voted you would still end up with people being spiteful, biased, fake, and afterwards probably less productive. It sounds dumb but I can guarantee you adding something like this is going to end in alot of resentment, and a lot of cocksucking.

 

If you don't believe me, and I know this sounds silly go look up why a lot of companies don't use Employee of the Month type systems anymore.

[Prez]

Yeah I kind of have to agree with what All T's is getting at - I've thought a lot before about potential systems like this, and it's both hard to quantify in a gaming community (especially because so much of the judgement could be on servers where many of the higher ups don't specifically play or see this person on), plus favoritism and differences in judgment on rank, etc. make it difficult to avoid bias. Not sure if we would look to bridge a system like this on unless there was a smoking gun that makes it viable.

[SpikedRocker]

We won't be doing this. Many reasons were given why not. Any members worthy of any kind of recognized either by their successful application of admin or approval of the title of honorable gamer.

 

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[Chloe Gallagher]

Fair points, hopefully someday something like that will be implemented.