Hold on, new member ranks?

[Vyk]

This is why I don't vote in the ciddies :P Popularity contest shmopularity contest

[Loony BoB]

I don't think we should expand Best Regular to include older members because the whole point of having that Best Regular area is that it isn't supposed to have really hugely established members in it.

As for shortening the "Best Newbie" area, it all comes down to how easy you want it to be for people to nominate others for awards. We have two sets of Ciddies per year, and that means that at least for the mid-year awards, unless you want to say "between July 2007 and June 2011" next time, making it 12 months is a right pain. I find it much easier to do it by calendar year because it makes it a lot easier for people to understand and find people who are in a set range.

For me, the end of year newbies could be for the past year or the past two years. I just know that for mid-years, I tend to make it for the past year and a half because it's easier that way. Some newbies register at the end of the previous year after the Ciddies have already been and gone, so I want to ensure that I am able to capture those members in the next Ciddies without making it confusing, so I just put both calendar-years for that reasoning alone.

As for nobody being able to figure out who to vote for - that's not the fault of the award range, that's just a reflection of either the person who is voting or the people who registered in that timeframe that are still active. You can't extend the grouping just so you can fit in Mr. & Mrs. Popular.

[blackmage_nuke]

Its hard to imagine people joining in 2010 think of me the same way I thought of people who joined in 2000

[Elskidor]

How about you base it on number of posts rather than the time between registering and now?

Some people have been registered for years but have never posted at all.

That's what we do on another board I'm a member of. Our "Ancient" is the oldest active member but has posted less than 300 times in 11 years. It works through post designation titles, but some are probably active daily readers but seldom posters.

[Peegee]

I don't think we should expand Best Regular to include older members because the whole point of having that Best Regular area is that it isn't supposed to have really hugely established members in it.

As for shortening the "Best Newbie" area, it all comes down to how easy you want it to be for people to nominate others for awards. We have two sets of Ciddies per year, and that means that at least for the mid-year awards, unless you want to say "between July 2007 and June 2011" next time, making it 12 months is a right pain. I find it much easier to do it by calendar year because it makes it a lot easier for people to understand and find people who are in a set range.

For me, the end of year newbies could be for the past year or the past two years. I just know that for mid-years, I tend to make it for the past year and a half because it's easier that way. Some newbies register at the end of the previous year after the Ciddies have already been and gone, so I want to ensure that I am able to capture those members in the next Ciddies without making it confusing, so I just put both calendar-years for that reasoning alone.

As for nobody being able to figure out who to vote for - that's not the fault of the award range, that's just a reflection of either the person who is voting or the people who registered in that timeframe that are still active. You can't extend the grouping just so you can fit in Mr. & Mrs. Popular.

Do you remember when Something Awful caught wind of us and made fun of you for being a 5 year old 'newbie' or something?

Everybody's a newbie here.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I don't think we should expand Best Regular to include older members because the whole point of having that Best Regular area is that it isn't supposed to have really hugely established members in it.

As for shortening the "Best Newbie" area, it all comes down to how easy you want it to be for people to nominate others for awards. We have two sets of Ciddies per year, and that means that at least for the mid-year awards, unless you want to say "between July 2007 and June 2011" next time, making it 12 months is a right pain. I find it much easier to do it by calendar year because it makes it a lot easier for people to understand and find people who are in a set range.

For me, the end of year newbies could be for the past year or the past two years. I just know that for mid-years, I tend to make it for the past year and a half because it's easier that way. Some newbies register at the end of the previous year after the Ciddies have already been and gone, so I want to ensure that I am able to capture those members in the next Ciddies without making it confusing, so I just put both calendar-years for that reasoning alone.

As for nobody being able to figure out who to vote for - that's not the fault of the award range, that's just a reflection of either the person who is voting or the people who registered in that timeframe that are still active. You can't extend the grouping just so you can fit in Mr. & Mrs. Popular.

Do you remember when Something Awful caught wind of us and made fun of you for being a 5 year old 'newbie' or something?

Everybody's a newbie here.

When did that happen?!

[Old Manus]

In hindsight, it's probably better that they named and shamed us then instead of now

[Jessweeee♪]

It wouldn't be as funny now. We don't have any CLAIM ANIME BISHIE threads in The Lounge!