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Awards Project
Vigo:
Here is my 2 cents on method, just throwing it out there:
1) Start a nomination thread. Have 5 award categories. Ask people to just post [project nominated, category, link]
2) Start a voting poll for every project with 2 or more nominations. Do not allow results to be viewed until the voting period is over. Give people up to five votes, enough for one vote per category. In the original post have a link to every project announcement and a photo.
3) Bring a few honorary "judges". The don't really do any judging, but rather talk about the voted winner and highlight what they feel makes the project so awesome. Maybe the judges can also do an honorable mention. Pick out something cool that might not have been a winner.
4) Maybe allow the winners to be honorary judges the for the next year.
Well Fed Games:
--- Quote from: Le Chuck on February 22, 2012, 02:27:33 pm --- panel made up by whoever decides they want to be on that panel
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--- Quote from: Le Chuck on February 22, 2012, 02:27:33 pm ---the builder has to consent to the scrutiny
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That seems like the most reasonable approach.
And a "look at some of the community's favorite builds completed in the last year" thread certainly makes sense, especially as a point of inspiration for newcomers.
As long as all of it keeps with the (general) spirit of the forum, and isn't making fun of people's hard work or giving unsolicited criticism, then yeah, I would probably read and enjoy those threads. And it is going to take restraint. Sure, someone might hate all weecades, or laminated cabs, or leaf switch joysticks, or whatever, but they don't need to share that in every thread discussing a cabinet with those elements.
And definitely not this:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 21, 2012, 08:42:16 pm ---I think it could be just as valuable to highlight a few stinkers
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Even the phrasing of that statement... that some cabs are "stinkers," is a reminder of how this process could go wrong if it isn't ultimately based around praising the praiseworthy.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: thefearsomefearful on February 22, 2012, 02:42:19 pm ---Sure, someone might hate all weecades, or laminated cabs, or leaf switch joysticks, or whatever, but they don't need to share that in every thread discussing a cabinet with those elements.
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Anybody who hates leaf switch joysticks is, by definition, not qualified to judge anything.
>:D
Zakk:
My thoughts.
As a 'user voted system'. I think it would garner limited interest. I really should have kept with it, but time and incentive was lacking. The only guy that really kept at it was lew. That crazy irishman and his hot wife toiled long hours finding the best of the best, submitting them to me so that I could...wander off and play with a penny (a shiny penny). In fact, if lew wanted the rights to the mameys I'd likely give it to him. Who knows, maybe the 'judges' need to be picked by the users here, and then they can 'vote' on the submissions.
Oh and apologies to anyone I didn't respond to. There was that bit where mameworld lost its domain, and I was just too damn lazy to update all the links and whatnot. saint gave me free hosting space for the mameys too (that guy is a....saint), but even that didn't get my juices flowing. Around that time the main submission e-mail addy got shut down too.
So I agree that people should be recognized for the awesome stuff they do. It's just really hard to keep with it. As one pointed out, the mamey's have been sort of inactive for what, 4-6 years? So just remember, this is an unpaid proposition, where your biggest accolades will be things like this :
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Talk:Mamey
Plus the guys that pull the "who is you to judge me!?!" guys, they are tiring as well. ANARCHY FOREVER!!!
Plus, and shmokes said, there's one cabinet that should win all the awards...it just took so long to build that the awards were gone by the time it finished :)
Pixelhugger:
--- Quote from: Zakk on February 22, 2012, 04:23:33 pm ---it just took so long to build that the awards were gone by the time it finished :)
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So wait a second. That "Mamey for most aggravatingly slow progress ever made" wasn't a real Mamey? Crap. Now what...
I give up.
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