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I hope our bitcoin hangout helps me with one question.
I am writing a guide for a event related to the bitcointalk community (the idea of the annual Crypto Community Award), which will include 20 nominations with the possibility of voting.
Do you think your community is amazing? Is there a community hero in the section where you chat? Why not nominate them for one of these new Bitcointalk Community Awards…For example: Antihero (A contender for maximum hostility from members of the forum) or / Scandal of the year / Event of the year / and so on. When I finish, I will be happy to discuss possible additions and will not refuse help with moderating the Crypto Award. In the meantime, I want to know your opinion on this idea.
I would like a title that recognizes my contribution as being worth more than giving stolen coins to others (apologies to the honest donators who don't go around calling attention to their donation). I think a good title would be Inventor. Short, simple - I didn't give financial value a time the forum needed it, but I gave other value - the same kind the forum itself does to a community. So I will lock this topic and hopefully wake up one day with a custom title. Smiley
After the announcement of the results, it would not be difficult for
theymos to add the winners their well-deserved
Custom Titles:
(Moderator of the Year, Antihero, Guru, Crypto Maniac, etc.).
Vod would be happy to get a headline describing his contribution or, for example, the Vod/OG scandal of the year. Perhaps
Lauda will become an anti-hero due to thousands of feedback messages, and
The Pharmacist will be a Bitcointalk guru.
Uh yeah....I'm the furthest thing from a bitcoin guru that you could possibly find, so I don't know how my name got thrown into the mix. Even if you put my name in for a vote, it would be a waste of your keyboard strokes--so don't bother.
I just gave an example ... since people abstract from those they know. As for your persona for this title .. It's not about the selection of nominees by one person, be it the OP or the moderator. I guess the user should be nominated by at least 3-5 people.There will be several threads interconnected, for example
(Threads for discussing and nominating nominees, a thread for voting and publishing results ... in a word, there will be a solid infrastructure for this event).I suggest
instant-runoff voting, and not just because I'm Australian and therefore intimately familiar with it. Also, voting power proportional to sMerit isn't likely to work very well; for one thing, it's impossible to calculate sMerit for merit sources.
Maybe I missed something, but how can voters with the current interface vote for multiple candidates?
Also we're not talking about submitting sMerit, we're talking about counting the merit of each user who voted.
For example, LoyceV votes for position A “6975/10”, and you and I vote for position B “2019 + 68/10” (thus, A is ahead of B by 488 points).Aside the fact that most awards are based on opinion or perspective, i wouldn't add title for negative things (such as best antihero/troll) since it'll create more drama and boost their ego. Maybe we can borrow algorithm score for bumping (obvious there's major advantage for some member)
Or are you talking about antipathy on the part of very active members of the forum towards certain individuals?
Yes, but also antipathy of any individual/group towards certain individuals/group (could be race, rank, nationality etc.)There will be no dramatic events during the event, as a self-moderated thread will be created in which users will nominate candidates only by template.
Could you tell us more about the algorithm?What about a prize for the most illiterate user? I'd propose
hacker1001101001 and
andulolika. There would be a great battle between them, but I'd bet on andulolika for winning this prize.
Also: what about a prize for the lamest Otoman?
The list is big here, but best nominees would be DragonDance, wolvoo, mhanbostanci, BitcoinTurk, Cean, Vispilio, Blacknavy, gumusi or miyav.
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How are you defining "very active"? I know traffic is way down as of late, but that number somehow seems low. I would bet that the number of active old-time members, or those with a reputation that makes them "known" is less than 1000, but I can't imagine that figure includes members like bounty hunters, for example. They're extremely active on the forum, though 99.99% of them are unknown, unknowable, and probably have more alts than members of their family.
You can just look at the statistics on merit. Bounty hunters ... Man, seriously? There is no question of them, as I said, we just will not take into account the three junior ranks. They will be barred from nominating other candidates and their votes will not be counted.Although I like your main idea [annual awards], I think we should tweak it a little bit by giving "possible" rewards to those with awards in a way that it doesn't depend on theymos's actions.
- It should be something that "we" as a community would give to these members and not theymos (hence the title, community awards).
Even though theymos rarely comments [in general], I'm pretty sure he has a perfect idea of who are the deserving users for a custom title of some sort and based on how selective he is when it comes to giving those, I think it'll have a little impact on his decisions.
That's right, the essence of the event can be conveyed in one sentence
"Annual competition with various nominations". And theymos's role is only to mark (sub-rank) the winners of the annual competition, the winners are chosen by the community, not the administration.
Or you could just create a separate thread for users to post their votes, as was done
here. Why make things more complicated than they need to be?
└── The main thread is designed to describe the entire process and nominate candidates according to the template, (Including navigation through voting threads).
1. Moderator of the Year .......... Username
2. Cryptomaniac ................... Username
3. Ninja .......................... Username
4. And others ..................... Username
After that, all applications that did not receive enough support will be discarded
(A candidate is considered nominated if he received support from 3-5 users). ├── Thread "Ninja"
├── Thread "Cryptomaniac"
├── Thread "Moderator of the Year"
└── And others
Further down in each thread, I will publish the names that have received enough support and close the thread,
(Post 1,2, etc). Each thread will have a convenient navigation system that redirects to each other.
I think custom titles would be cool for those who deserve one. If you want me to be honest, I don’t think theymos will grant too many people titles (if any at all).
Great, I just wanted some feedback. That's what I'm talking about, people will decide for themselves who is worthy.
Seems to me that you should start a thread (or threads) on this topic in order to attempt to get feedback, and also to gauge how popular your topic is in order to stand alone and/or to get members to participate in the thread. Furthermore, you can surely link such thread(s), once you create it (them) in threads like this, in order to inform members of the existence of such thread(s).
Seems to me that just the creation of various titles (even if temporary) might end up being controversial.. unless those titles were voted on with a broader swath and the participation of "somewhat established" forum members.. so maybe you would need either a poll within your topic or separate threads for different titles that would be considered (or nominated).
Anyhow, point is that titles tend to be controversial, and likely you would need to have a pretty open process, and I doubt that theymos is even going to get involved in endorsing such titles unless you either get him to agree in advance or you have some kind of overwhelming participation of "somewhat established" forum members that cause theymos to want to endorse such system once you have already established it.
There is already a thread?
Are you suggesting the thread in which Vod is quoted?
That post from Vod should have a clickable link, by the way.. just to make it easy to reference and to verify context.
No, I thought about it a year ago, it was just that Vod pushed me into action. His thread was personal, I'm talking about an event that will be held once a year (something like April 1st, when the whole forum comes to life, only the Crypto Community Awards will last a little longer), as well as how to really implement Vod's idea.
P.S. Its thread is blocked, so I was unable to insert the clickable link. (I would appreciate it if you could explain how to quote posts in locked threads.It can be fun by the way, also reminds me April Fools' Day on bitcointalk when everyone gets some unique surprise. It's a good idea for having extra fun but at the same time will turn somebody's brain to think who deserves what among so many members.
Btw what happens if someone doesn't want to wear that Crypto Community Award? Or doesn't want to be even nominated?
But the main problem right now is if theymos implememt the idea here? Or pray o. new forum for new features? He may do this on April Fools' Day, both of it.
There are no more than 1000 very active users. You can nominate others and not yourself, this is the principle of all such awards. The "Award" depends on the forum community, not on the administration,
(theymos can only implement the signatures - this will be possible only if everything goes smoothly with the "Award" and this idea is supported by authoritative users, moderators and theymos personally).
