Mid-Year Ciddies 2012 - NOMINATIONS are now underway! - due Friday June 15!
22nd Ciddies Awards Nomination Thread
Welcome to the Ciddies, EoFF's semiannual award ceremony!
For those of you who may be new or just aren't paying attention, the Ciddies are a semi-annual forums awards event where you, the members, nominate and vote each other for various awards. If you still aren't sure about this whole business, the organic lifeform Jiro has written up a nice guide about the Ciddies which is located here.
Longtime participants may recall that we did things a little differently last December, and we shall be continuing that this time around, so do pay attention:
This is the nomination phase. The list of awards to nominate your fellow members for is below. The rules and restrictions are below and are predominately the same as past Ciddies with a couple exceptions which I will detail here. You may nominate up to two members per award. This gives you a chance to nominate people who may otherwise go overlooked. Nominating one person per award is still acceptable. You may nominate a single member up to 10 times.
Please PM (mognet message) your nominations to myself, Award Bot. Nominations will be open for approximately one week, so be sure to be prompt!
The first person to send me a complete set of nominations will get a gold star in their custom title until the next Ciddies event!
And now, here is the list of awards:
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1. Best Member
2. Best Male [must actually be male]
3. Best Female [must actually be female]
4. Best Admin [automated, don't bother nominating]
5. Best Cid's Knight [automated, don't bother nominating]
6. Best Developer/Editor/Tech Admin [automated, don't bother nominating]
7. Best Recognized Member/Former Staff
8. Best Oldbie [person who registered before Jan 1, 2006 and isn't on staff or a Former Staff / Recognized Member]
9. Best Veteran [person who registered between Jan 1, 2006 and Dec 31, 2010 and isn't on staff or a Former Staff / Recognized Member]
10. Best Newbie [person who registered after Dec 31, 2010 and isn't on staff or a Former Staff / Recognized Member]
11. Cutest Male [must actually be male]
12. Cutest Female [must actually be female]
13. Best Custom Rank
14. Best Avatar
15. Best Signature
16. Best Artist
17. Best Writer
18. Best General Forums Poster
19. Best Final Fantasy Forums Poster
20. Best #eoff Chatter
21. Best Blogger
22. Best Newswriter
23. Best Thread
24. Best Post
25. Nicest Member
26. Snarkiest Member
27. Funniest Member
28. Craziest Member
29. Most Intimidating Member
30. Most Underrated Member
31. Most Missed Member
32. Most Hardcore Gamer
33. Biggest Final Fantasy Fangirl
34. Most Helpful Member
35. Cutest Couple [this is for legitimate couples, please go to award 50 for joke nominations]
Most Likely To…
36. Become a Cid's Knight
37. Get permabanned
38. Win a Ciddie for the Very First Time [past winners]
39. Win a Ciddie for the Very Last Time
40. Be the hero/heroine of the Next Big Final Fantasy Game
41. Be the beautiful villain of the Next Big Final Fantasy Game
42. Be the sidekick that people either love or hate in the Next Big Final Fantasy Game
43. Pull a Jiro and completely lose it on the forums
44. Become a Space Miner
45. Live in a survivalist compound surrounded by guns and tinfoil hats
46. Rig the Ciddies
47. Be a viral marketing bot for Square-Enix
48. Be GLaDOS
49. Be Wheatley
50. Get Together
Here is a pastebin listing members with 25 posts or more over the last six months which fall into the appropriate categories of Oldbie/Veteran/Newbie/RM or FS: Mid-Year Ciddies 2012 - Pastebin.com
And here is the above list of awards with all the extra gunk edited out, to make copypasting easier:
(SPOILER)1. Best Member
2. Best Male
3. Best Female
4. [automated, don't bother nominating]
5. [automated, don't bother nominating]
6. [automated, don't bother nominating]
7. Best Recognized Member/Former Staff
8. Best Oldbie
9. Best Veteran
10. Best Newbie
11. Cutest Male
12. Cutest Female
13. Best Custom Rank
14. Best Avatar
15. Best Signature
16. Best Artist
17. Best Writer
18. Best General Forums Poster
19. Best Final Fantasy Forums Poster
20. Best #eoff Chatter
21. Best Blogger
22. Best Newswriter
23. Best Thread
24. Best Post
25. Nicest Member
26. Snarkiest Member
27. Funniest Member
28. Craziest Member
29. Most Intimidating Member
30. Most Underrated Member
31. Most Missed Member
32. Most Hardcore Gamer
33. Biggest Final Fantasy Fangirl
34. Most Helpful Member
35. Cutest Couple
Most Likely To…
36. Become a Cid's Knight
37. Get permabanned
38. Win a Ciddie for the Very First Time
39. Win a Ciddie for the Very Last Time
40. Be the hero/heroine of the Next Big Final Fantasy Game
41. Be the beautiful villain of the Next Big Final Fantasy Game
42. Be the sidekick that people either love or hate in the Next Big Final Fantasy Game
43. Pull a Jiro and completely lose it on the forums
44. Become a Space Miner
45. Live in a survivalist compound surrounded by guns and tinfoil hats
46. Rig the Ciddies
47. Be a viral marketing bot for Square-Enix
48. Be GLaDOS
49. Be Wheatley
50. Get Together
FINE PRINT!:
Rule #1 - You can nominate yourself for no more than two awards, excluding Cutest Couple.
Rule #2 - You can nominate any one member for no more than ten awards, excluding Cutest Couple.
Rule #3 - Do not post your nominations - PM them.
Rule #4 - PM nominations to Award Bot, not anyone else!
Rule #5 - PM your nominations by the closing date.
Rule #6 - Do not spam up the Ciddies Thread with self-advertising. You are free to make a "For Your Consideration" thread for that.
Rule #7 - You can nominate up to two people per award (or two couples for #40 and #50). One nomination per award is still acceptable.
Rule #8 - You can't be nominated for avatar, custom rank and/or sig if you do not have an avatar, custom rank and/or sig - unless you remove them at some time during the Ciddies.
Rule #9 - You can change your avatar, custom rank and/or sig during nominations and finals. This shouldn't cause any major issues, as you can only earn what awards you receive, be the votes late or early, that's your problem.
Rule #10 - Changes/additions can be made however often you like. Please title any PM's with Changes as 'Nomination Changes' or 'Vote Changes', and the same for additions (only 'Additions' should replace 'Changes' in the title. Duh).
Rule #11 - You can only be nominated/voted for one of the 'rank-categorized-awards'. Best Admin, Cid's Knight and Developer have automatic entry for all of the obvious included members.
Rule #12 - You can't nominate a male for any Ciddie with the word 'female' in it, and you can't nominate a female for any Ciddie with the word 'male' in it. If it doesn't have 'male' or 'female' in it, you can nominate a member of either gender.
Rule #13 - People who are NOT currently couples shouldn't be voted as Cutest Couple - this is for people who ARE already couples.
Rule #14 Nominations for Ciddie #43 must NOT be past Ciddies winners.
Rule #15 - People who are currently couples shouldn't be voted as Most Likely To Get Together - this is for people who are NOT already couples. By 'Get Together', I mean 'Become A Couple'.
Rule #16 - You may only nominate people who have posted in the last six months (between January 1, 2012 and now). If a member has been active in chat but not on the forums, I may allow them to be nominated for the Best Chatter award, but no other awards. An exception is also made for "Most Missed Member".
*deep breath*
Also - You don't have to make nominations for every award.
Also - Again, when nominating, please think not of overall, but purely of the last six months. In other words, if someone was really helpful one year ago, and they don't help much now, they shouldn't get that award. This is purely for the occurrences of the last six months!
Also - The Cutest Couple award does not count into the five nominations for another member of your choice, or your self-nominations.
Also - All nominations are strictly confidential. In addition to that - You cannot publically post your nominations or votes until after the final voting has occurred - a thread can be made for them a bit after the results are shown.
Also - In general, to be nominated into the second round for an award, a member needs to obtain two nominations in that award. Should eight members all receive three nominations, then the cut-off will be raised to three nominations, and the same for eight members receiving four nominations each, and so on. The only exception to this rule will be if only 1-3 members will be cut, meaning it's not worth the change. This rule may be stricter due to the rule change to allow two nominations per award. In general, the nominations will be cut so that no more than 7 or 8 members (or couples) are nominated for each award (Best Member being a possible exception).
Also - I hold the right to reject any nominations/votes for any reason, most often this is that the member hasn't been active in the forums in the past six months.
Also - For a list of past Ciddies winners, THE LIST. Note - it may or may not be a mess.
Also - Award Bot, Election Booth and second accounts are only allowed to be voted for the MLT (Most Likely To...) and Profile (Custom Title, Avatar, Signature) Ciddies.
Also - Banned members are only allowed to be voted for the Best Chatter and Most Missed Member Ciddies.
Also - If a member belongs to more than one group (e.g. Recognized Member AND Veteran) then they are eligible ONLY for the first of those groups to appear in the list. This covers Ciddies for Best Admin, Cid's Knight, Recognized Member/Former Staff, Veteran, Regular and Newbie, but Developer/Editor is the exception.
Also - Let's keep it fun. GO! Nominate!
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TLDR: Nominate PEOPLE for the Ciddies by copying the awards above and PMing them to Award Bot. You can now nominate for two people per award but you don't have to.
Originally Posted by Award Bot
