*** The Apolytoner of the Season Contest - Revisited ***

[Narck]

Greetings all,

as you may or may not remember, about a month ago we started the Apolytoner of the Season contest, which was split into two parts:

The first part was a nomination round: you were supposed to nominate a candidate for one or more of the following forum sections: civ2, civ3, ctp, ac, scenarioleague, s&d, and off topic.

The second part was supposed to be the final voting round, to be held in the Apolyton forum where each of the chosen candidates for the forum sections would have a chance to become the “Apolytoner of the Season”…

Some people were wondering why this second round did not start. Well, mainly because I’ve been busy doing other things , but also because the administrators are not satisfied with the reactions received for the first round, at least not for every forum section…

Therefore, there are a couple of changes in the second part of the contest. For those of you who don’t know or don’t remember what it was about:

The Apolytoner of the Season contest was initiated by Lancer. The intention is that for one or more of the previously mentioned forum sections, people will nominate a candidate who they think has done the most for that particular forum section. Once this first round ends, nominations will be counted, and winning candidates will be picked. All winning candidates will receive a temporary title, which will last for 3 months, as well as a permanent notification in the Apolyton age faq, which is scheduled to be upgraded soon

However, that is not all. A second round will start in the Apolyton forum, where the candidates of the seven sections/forums will “compete” for the “Apolytoner of the Season” award. Only one will receive the overall title.

One important thing to keep in mind, is that this contest is not intended as a popularity contest. It's supposed to be a way to show our appreciation to a poster who has contributed a lot to the forum by his posting attitude...

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Now, we would like to make a vote on each section of the forums, based on the initial nominations. You will find them at the end of this message. No new nominations can be made.

Here are the NEW additional rules for this 2nd round:

-Because the final candidates of each of the forums will all be given a title of their own, we’re setting a minimum amount of votes: There have to be at least 20 votes in total for a forum section, or that section will, unfortunately, no longer be allowed to participate in this contest (i.e. the winner will not receive a title and will not compete in the Apolyton forum for the overall title)

Here are the results, copied from the previous election thread:

1st name = Voter , 2nd name = person that has been nominated by the voter

1. NickC: Captain Nemo
2. MarkG: Blackclove
3. Cam: Blackclove

The above people have already nominated someone and don’t need to do this again. Their vote will still be counted. If your name is not on the left hand side in above list, you can still vote! SL still needs 14 more votes to participate in the contest

You must choose out of the people mentioned below. New nominations are no longer accepted.

Captain Nemo
Blackclove

This contest is now only for Scenario league. The winner will participate in the final contest, which is for the whole of Apolyton, but, apart from the result of that contest, will receive a title for SL, if 20 votes are reached…

I hope this time it will go better than last. If you like, you can also vote in the other threads on this subject…

Thank you, now START VOTING!

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[Captain Nemo]

My vote is for Blackclove

[William Keenan]

Blackclove

[MagyarCrusader]

What the hell?! Why is this crap back again?! Get the hell outta here narck and take this thread with you. And drop my name from the list!

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Canada sucks
France is worse.

[blackclove]

Nemo certainly contributed the most to the forum this month, so I'll vote for him.

[techumseh]

I'm with you Micheal!

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U.S. out of North America!

[MarkG]

Narck, do we have a rule on changing votes? If yes I would like to vote MJ(j/k)

Seriously, this is why we put a 20 vote minimum. If the SL community does not want to show it's appreciation to one of it's members for his/her(her? do we have any gils here? ) contribution, it can just ignore the vote. As simple as that.
[This message has been edited by MarkG (edited December 10, 1999).]

[benedetti]

So true, MarkG.

However...

It was agreed that this voting thing was to be moved to OTF. Even Mr. Narck apologized for spamming our forum with this nonsense. Now Narck himself breaks the rules. It appears thus logical that the citizens of this forum express their discontentment.

Having said this, I am too with MJ and Tec.

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Well the Quebec girls really knock me out
they leave the US behind
And Toronto girls make me sing and shout
that Victoria's always on my mind

[Narck]

MJ:

Your name stays right where it is, after all, ppl did vote for you, and you voted yourself as well, in the previous thread that is now locked

benedetti:

"It was agreed that this voting thing was to be moved to OTF"
Yes, but the situation is different now (read: this vote is now for SL only), and thus it is back in here.

"Even Mr. Narck apologized for spamming our forum with this nonsense."
Mr. Narck never did that Link the page where you think I apologized for "spamming" "your" forum with 1 thread that you don't have to click on if you don't like it btw

"It appears thus logical that the citizens of this forum express their discontentment."
Well, IMO it appears that some ppl on this forum cannot appreciate another person's work, which is well meant, and are keen on starting a flame war any chance they get.


To All:

You were upset about the previous vote, because ppl from other forums came in and voted (for example S&D)... If you read my first post you will have noticed I explicitly said that this vote is now for SL ONLY. That should make a difference.

If you guys still don't like it, maybe it's better not to make such a big deal out of it and let it sink to the bottom of the page. After all, if there are less than 20 votes, you will not be allowed to participate, and no title will be handed out.

Easy solution, right?

And to the troublemakers:
Maybe the other members of this board would like this contest. So just give them a chance to vote, and if they don't, be happy, for you will never be bothered again with this contest (if the 20 votes aren't reached)...

Thanks, everyone, for not starting another flame war in this thread

Sincerely,
Narck
[This message has been edited by Narck (edited December 10, 1999).]

[Gothmog]

I vote for Blackclove. It had to be a major effort to judge all those year 3000 contest entries!

[benedetti]

Geez, Narck, mon ami, you should come to this forum often. Tanks so much for the laugh! I needed it this morning!

First an apology from my part. Yes, it wasn't you who apologized. It was Lancer, the one who created this contest and the one whose steps you're following so tightly now. Whether it is the creator or the assistant to the creator the one who apologizes, does not make much a difference, or does it?

Yes, but the situation is different now

No, it's not. Keep reading please.

Well, IMO it appears that some ppl on this forum cannot appreciate another person's work, which is well meant

Hey, this thought reminds me of this one: "all for the people without the people". Do not make explain it, please.

and are keen to start a flame war any chance they get.

Narck, there has never been a flame war in this forum. Any of the regulars can confirm my words. People do not come here to flame anyone. Remember, this is not OTF.

You were upset about the previous vote, because ppl from other forums came in and voted (for example S&D)...

Well, I do not know what or who S&D is, but I have just read over that thread and to me the only "alien" log-ins in there were yours and Lancer's.

If you read my first post you will have noticed I explicitly said that this vote is now for SL ONLY. That should make a difference

None. None at all. If you read the first thread you would have noticed that many of the SLF regulars (not ppl from other forums) opposed the initiative. That's why it got sent off to OTF.

And to the troublemakers

Again, again (Lah Lah dixit): Narck, there are no troublemakers in this forum; this is not OTF.

benedetti


PS. Who knows, may be one day comes that you, like me, refer to this forum as "your" forum. The only thing you have to do is to play Civ2. Wasn't this the primary reason for you to come to this website...? Oh wait... nevermind... you're an OTF poster...

[blackclove]

Folks, let's let Narck do his thing this time since it's already here. However, in the future perhaps we could carry on this voting over in the Apolyton section or, better yet, allow HAC to absorb it and sponsor it at their site. After all, the mission of HAC is to help reward members of the community for their outstanding contributions (you'll have to ask Reismark about it, though).

Given that the thread is here right now, I suggest that we just leave it here and let it sink in peace if you're not interested in voting. If we have a flamewar over it, it will create much more junk than just ignoring it.

Narck, in the future if you want to post these member of the season things, could you please send it to me and I'll put some info on the front page? Will that satisfy you? In addition, I strongly urge you to keep this contest in either the Apolyton section or better yet to enlist the aid of HAC. Posting pointers to the other section is, of course, OK.

[Narck]

benedetti,

"It was Lancer, the one who created this contest and the one whose steps you're following so tightly now. Whether it is the creator or the assistant to the creator the one who apologizes, does not make much a difference, or does it?"
That's indeed possible, Lancer is a very nice guy, so I can imagine him doing something like that, even when he shouldn't have. Furthermore, Lancer is the one who initially got the idea to have a contest like this. But that's it for Lancer's involvement in the ongoing activities. Currently, I am the host of this contest, not Lancer's assistant. Actually, Lancer's been gone for over a month now, so yes, it does make a difference.

"Narck, there has never been a flame war in this forum."
Albeit it on a small scale, I perceived the "debate" in the previous contest thread over here as a flame war.

"I do not know what or who S&D is"
Stories & Diplomacy Forum

"to me the only "alien" log-ins in there were yours and Lancer's."
A quote from MarkG copied from that thread: "posts with s&d nominations deleted", which explains why the only "alien" posts left were by Lancer and myself.

"If you read the first thread you would have noticed that many of the SLF regulars (not ppl from other forums) opposed the initiative."
Well, many? MJ, mrtemba, and techumseh. Three ppl. Not many at all. There are more ppl who do like it, then there are that dislike it. And I really don't understand why the ones that don't like the idea cannot simply ignore this thread.

"The only thing you have to do is to play Civ2. Wasn't this the primary reason for you to come to this website...? Oh wait... nevermind... you're an OTF poster..."
I've played civ1, civ2, ctp, ac and ToT, and am currently waiting anxiously for the release of civ3. But I'm not interested in scenarios
[This message has been edited by Narck (edited December 10, 1999).]

[Narck]

Originally posted by blackclove on 12-10-1999 03:33 PMHowever, in the future perhaps we could carry on this voting over in the Apolyton section or, better yet, allow HAC to absorb it and sponsor it at their site. After all, the mission of HAC is to help reward members of the community for their outstanding contributions (you'll have to ask Reismark about it, though).

Initially, I was going to post this in the HAC forum, but Markos thought it was better to post it in here. And here it is.

Narck, in the future if you want to post these member of the season things, could you please send it to me and I'll put some info on the front page? Will that satisfy you?

I am merely hosting this thing. It's only in its first "test" round, so a lot of things can probably still be made better. The only reason I included SL, was because it was decided by others, that SL should be part of it... I don't mind alternative ways to do the contest. But if no more votes will be forthcoming, SL will no longer be participating in the future...

A shame, but oh well.

Anyway, to those who did vote and who do seem to appreciate this contest: thanks!

[Narck]

I'm glad that even in SL there are at least more ppl who do appreciate the contest, than there are who don't.