Clean?! That would eliminate the mudders LOL

I like the new proposal you have come up with, Kyle.

And I completely agree that it is not just about the ride all the time, but also about the member.

Maybe it would be a good time to do something like a "Member Spotlight" and this would eliminate the controversy surrounding whether you vote according to the person or the ride (I do both...it depends on the month). Outstanding members could then be recognized as people, not just as their Blazer. Then the ROTM would be all about the ride, not the person.

Another way to resolve it is something that I am not sure we could use with the software here, but on another forum I am on there is a thing for "Giving Karma".

Here's a run-down on how it works:

Karma System

You could use the karma to recognize members and it would alleviate the stress about the ROTM being about the person and not the ride, since there are differing opinions on it.

 

I think the point is not to limit. I think the way that we have been going about nominations, the open fashion of them, allows for anyone that meets the current activity and pics in gallery requirements to be nominated. To restrict things further would be shifting it into a more specialized, almost theme like contest.
Now we toyed with that idea months back as well. Kind of a themed ROTQ (ride of the quarter), but with everything as it was then, it just wasn't feasible to setup and implement. But then you run out of themes and start repeating. How many lowered trucks do we have? Lifted? Offroaded? <-- put my Rainier in there! Got it pretty dirty last weekend and plan on doing it again this weekend when I'm out checking tree stands.

Now the last two categories get a bit more populated, but, the majority they are not... There are quite a few trucks with stereos, some with custom paint/bodywork, a bunch with aftermarket rims, but the point is that I would venture to guess that +90% of our users don't have any of this stuff. I for one didn't have anything like that in my old Bravada nor do I plan on doing anything to my Rainier, but it still doesn't stop me from going through the woods or crossing creeks with either of them.

I think I'm trying to prove a point in there somewhere... LOL Sorry about the ramblings. It's been a hectic day.

And moonie, yes, I do think we need to get some kind of rep system going.

 

Yet again proves that it was a stupid idea! LOL
I'll keep my thoughts in the oven until they are fully baked from now on!

I think the karma system may be something we can propose later after we do some thinking on it a while..

As far as the proposal about nominations go.... we may can try it for a month and if everyone likes it, let it float!

 

the rep system I have seen on other forums has been abused badly. One one forum (jimmy knows it) the mods can only give rep points for (informative posts, good links, and so on) but it can work well on our forum. this is a fairly friendly forum and i think it can work.

 

swartlkk - I like your idea in your first post on this thread, I believe a system like that would make it more fun, slightly harder, and definately a more random way of getting vehicles to vote on. I like this idea a lot. If you want help or an moderator for just rotm or roty thing I wouldn't mind helping out.

 

Wow, that's a lot of reading!
Ultimately, I'd love to see every member win ROTM at least once, as all of os feel that our own trucks are special in some way.
I like some of the ideas I've read so far, but honestly, I haven't read it all....yet.
Random draw of nominees...good idea.

 

I'm with Lenny, I think Kyles first idea would work pretty good, I dont really like the idea of the karma thing, or doing themes b/c as Kyle said about himself, he doesnt have anything done to his to fit into those categories, neither do plenty of other members. But 1 thing I was unclear on w/ Kyles first idea, is what would be random? The final members that we would be voting on based on the nominations? Or the nominations themselves?

 

what if there were more than 5 in the running for ROTM, what if you could vote for one out of a group of 10

 

There would be too many oppertunities to tie, if you look back to July, when we had six rides.... we had a tie.

 

If Kyle's thinking is like mine.....take all of the rides that were nominated over the week, plug them into the "randomizer" and have the 5 choices to vote for from that. If it randoms them into a "no particular order" list (ie. not alphabetical, not shortest to longest, etc) then the mod would take the top 5 (or bottom 5, or every other one or whatever) to be the 5 to vote on.