Ciddies - Feedback

[Dr Unne]

No, allow people to vote for people who have not been nominated. How about do away with the nomination process entirely.

[NeoCracker]

The next dead point will be in one month when I leave you for a while.

But for feedback that was quite fun. I'd suggest getting people to write speaches earlier to give people more time to write the speach and makes it less likely to run low on volunteers. With more time the speaches could turn out better, If I hadn't written mine in such a brief time it might have been pretty good, I wasn't very fond of it myself. I just wrote it since you needed the speaches apperently.

A week is some time! If I gave people longer, I'd have to either make people wait longer for the results, or else the speech-writers wouldn't know who the nominees are. The speech-writing phase can only last as long as the voting round.

There was a week to do it in? I swore it was like three or four days. Completely disreegaurd my post then.

[Loony BoB]

I wasn't aware copy/pasting a list and deleting people was terribly difficult. Or do you mean for nominations? I'm not sure how a form would make that any easier - with PMs, I can reply to anything that needs to be rejected for any reason.

Not voting as much as nominating. Seeing as once you've copied and pasted there's a bunch of additional text littered around the seperate awards that I tend to spend alot of time cleaning because I'm obsessive copmulsive like that.

Perhaps just a blank list of awards or a .txt document would be more realistic.

Why did you copy/paste the additional text? xD

[eestlinc]

I thought they were well done.

[Miriel]

My suggestions:

1) A new category to add to the best newbie/regular/veteran. There's too many people in the veteran category and every year more people get pushed into that one. Might be good for people who have been registered for like 3+ years. That'd be neat.

2) Del Murder suggested this but post/thread/forum specific awards. That'd be neat.

3) The Oscars have this "For Your Consideration" thing where movie studios will submit some of their best work, actors will submit their best clips, and production teams will submit their stuff. It would be nice for lazy people like me if there was a FYC thread where people who want to be considered for best poet, artist, etc, could post some of their best work. That way, I don't need to go hunting for individual threads in the artist/writer forums. Cause you know, laziness and stuff. Plus, I really liked how eest did the speech for best spammer since you got to see an example of each person's spamming. That was neat.

4) No announcing it vote by vote! NO! That would not be neat.

[Loony BoB]

Oh! That's the one I knew I should have remembered. Thanks, Hannah. *adds that in before reading the rest of your post*

EDIT: *adds in those others*

[Madonna]

I knew I had fun this year, lamely enough with my antics in #eoff. Probably the one time I'm in there enough to count.

It'd be interesting to do away with the nomination process completely, but if you look at it, you realize if a person is not going to make the cut in nominations, how are they going to do any better in the actual voting? If one person nominates BrooklynSquallHottie in the nomination process, BSH will only get one vote in the actual voting, so it's rather moot. I guess the idea behind it is so everyone can vote for who they really like, though?

And how would thread/forum specific awards work out? What the heck? I can see how a person might have the most stellar post ever (although they may only work in context and when taken out from their element, they may appear less than awesome), but thread and forum specific awards? How do you do that? Give the thread starter an award, maybe? But what if the actual starting post was nothing compared to the rest of the posts in the thread? Does everyone who post in that thread get a bit of that award? What about forums? I don't even get that one at all. Edit: Do you mean, like, Best Poster in GC, Best Female in General Square-Enix, and so on? Do you want these awards to take a week to do?!?

BoB, if you do that, consider a bot.

[Loony BoB]

Non-Member Awards generally mean there is no member that gets a prize. It's just to decide on what that totally cool thread is, and stuff.

EDIT: And I can say now that there is no way in hell that I am going to drop nominations. They were started up for a reason, and the difference it made to the awards was awesome. If anything, I'd consider setting up a "face-off" period where the top two finalists go head-to-head in a battle.

[Del Murder]

First of all, NO vote by vote. Oh man that would be painful.

[RSL]

I'm not a big fan of having an award for best thread and best post and stuff like that. It's just really hard to think of what the best thread of the last six months is! And usually really stupid, closed, spam threads would get nominated anyway.

I think you do a fantastic job with this, BoB. Half the fun is in the anticipation, and all the hoopla around the awards!

I don't think we should get rid of nominations either. How many times has someone only had a couple nominations but ended up winning the award? That is pretty neat. I know I've nominated someone for an award, and they made it to the finals, but I voted for someone else because I just didn't think of them at the time!

There are some awards that I have a really hard time with, and I don't really like. The worst is horniest member. I just think that one is silly. Of course, it's not just my opinion that matters, but I thought I would mention it!

[Dr Unne]

Change the nomination cutoff from 2 to 1. The more options you have to vote for the better. Limiting it to just people popular enough for 2 nominations ends up with a smaller group of "the same people who always win" people.

Set a hard limit to the number of Ciddies anyone can win. After someone wins that many, retire them from ever winning any more (i.e. don't let people nominate or vote for them for anything). Some people have won so many awards that getting more doesn't really mean a whole lot. (e.g. me) I don't even post and I still win crap. If someone else won the award I won, I think it would mean more to them than it did to me. If the purpose of the Ciddies is to recognize people who do something good, then permanently recognize people who've won 947 Ciddies and make room for some other, EQUALLY worthy person to be recognized.

[KentaRawr!]

Since this is my first time actually bothering to look at the ciddies, I think it's cool and was very fun. However, I found the posting style strange. It was almost as if it was in the IRC Chat Room. My feedback on the Ciddies aside, I would like to state that I support the idea of more Ciddie categories. The Ciddies are for fun, and what better way to make the Ciddies more fun than to make the Winners Revelations thread longer? Plus, it increases my chances of winning a Ciddie, which is always good.

[rubah]

make room.

Is there a showcase area showing the number of awards each person has won? Why not?

[RSL]

Meat Puppet updated my wiki page with that info!

Meat Puppet does a lot of work on the wiki these days.

[Loony BoB]

make room.

Is there a showcase area showing the number of awards each person has won? Why not?

There's the hall of fame excel spreadsheet and excel-generated web-page.