[beatlemanu]

It's July now and there doesn't seem to be any voting for the next Forum of the Month. Have you stopped doing it?

Is anyone here???

[shaktipatel]

I nominate Elite Topics

Elite Topics

[zk0]

Hopefully the forum of the month contests resumes now when this board has a new owner.

I nominate Enviro Space!

[sanjay]

we need to get this going again- ASAP!

*talking to myself*

[Destiny]

How does the voting work? Do we as members here vote or is it down to the adminstration team?

[zk0]

Originally Posted by Destiny

How does the voting work? Do we as members here vote or is it down to the adminstration team?

I think it was the admin who decided.

[twhiting9275]

Why not do something like vb.org does with BOTM, where members nominate and vote for a forum. Seems to work pretty well.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by twhiting9275

Why not do something like vb.org does with BOTM, where members nominate and vote for a forum. Seems to work pretty well.

Then it becomes a popularity contest in which the forum with the most members or the forum that can bribe the most members to vote for - will win.

[twhiting9275]

As opposed to whomever bribes the admin more?

[Ki Adi Mundi]

Well, how it worked in the past was....

1. You nominate a forum
2. Finalists are selected by various means (usually, post count on AF)
3. (Profit!)
4. The winner is selected, based on an overall grade. The forums are judged on a 10-point scale, covering the entire "forum experience."

Personally, I think a tweak or two could be used, but the old AF system worked pretty well. To both quote Ryan, and make my changes: (changes/addition in bold)

Originally Posted by Ryan

Forum of the Month Procedures

The Forum of the Month award is a very prestigious award you can receive here at AdminFusion. At the end of every month, the AdminFusion staff will examine 15 member submitted forums and select one as the best all around. Each month, the winning forum will receive the following:

Benefits

• Showcase in the Forum of the Month section
• Listing in the AdminFusion Forum of the Month Hall of Fame
• A link in the forumwide sidebar for the month following selection
• Special user image for the month following selection. (preview)

Procedure
On the 10th of every month, the staff will announce that we are taking submissions for Forum of the Month. We will do so for 5 days. On the 15th, all submissions will be closed and the 10 submissions with the highest post count, or other determining category, at AdminFusion will be chosen. AdminFusion staff will spend the next 7 days researching and examining each of the 10 forums and ranking them on a 10 point scale for various categories. The one forum which receives the highest number of points will receive the title. In the event of a tiebreaker, sanjay will pick a winner, or a random number picker will select the winner.

Categories to be Judged

• Design
• Creativity
• Activity
• Post Quality and Content
• Modifications
• Staff Friendliness

Rules

• One submission per member
• Forums must be at least 2 weeks old to be eligible
• A member may only submit a forum he or she personally administers or moderates
• Posts on your forum must be able to be read by guests (us) - New
• A forum may only be nominated (top 10 pick) once every 3 months
  • Exception: If we do not receive 10 submissions, we will allow recently nominated forums to submit again
• A forum may only win once per year
• No early submissions will be considered
• No late submissions will be considered

We are talking about wonderful exposure and honor here! Your forums will be seen multiple times by all members of AdminFusion. This is not to even mention the great pride you will receive as a winner, am I right?

If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them in the Forum of the Month discussion subforum, as this thread is not open to discussion. I'm sure we will be updating the guidelines and/or rewards as time goes on. We will notify you if anything changes.

One last thing I would like to see added to the contest is the separation between newer boards, and established boards. A newer board would be a site that is less than 6 months old. So, in effect, we would have 2 Winners a month- this gets more people involved, and encourages would-be registrants to sign up and take part in the contest, as opposed to those whom would not sign up, thinking their brand-spanking new forum would not match up with some of the more established sites.

I am also not a fan of post counts being a determining factor, at least not for right now. Many people here sort of went MIA after Ryan and Matrix stepped down. There really weren't a wide-variety of topics to talk about, and the active threads were just.... yeah. So, a great deal of people didn't really post here for the last year or so.

So, if this thing is going to go ahead, I would like to nominate my new forum, FOTOR, for this.