^^Ok, that makes sense if thats what Kyle is talking about too

 

Hi y'all! Sorry I missed the acceptance of my nominations again this month, (thanks to those who nominated me again!) but I've been VERY busy with the girls and work, and haven't been online much at all. I also want to appologize to any of you who have e-mailed me with repair/diagnosis questions and didn't get a response. If you still need help send me another e-mail and I'll get back to ya.

Now, my thoughts on this subject are these:
I agree that everyone should be allowed ONLY nominating one person/ride per month.
I think that anyone who is nominated and loses should be able to compete every month if someone nominates them.
I think that anyone who WINS ROTM should not be eligible for competition again for a ROLLING 12 months, if I'm not mistaken, the current rule allows the same member to WIN in December and again the next month because it's a new calander year.
I agree with the random drawing of names for the competition, take all the noms each month and put them in a hat, draw 5 and we have our competitors.
I think that ANY registered street VEHICLE, includingblazers, bravadas, fords, mopars, nissans etc should be eligible for competition because alot of us nominate and vote for the person, not the ride.
I feel that moderators should be allowed2 votes each for their favorite ride, and administrators should be allowed 5 votes each, because these guys/gals devote alot of their time contributing to this site and their vote should count for more than a person who just comes on here to show off their mods or critisize someone else's ride.
And Of course there should be no reqirement for any modifications.

 

randomize it...I'm sick of the same old people every month...I don't even think you should nominate...just form a list of eligible people and randomize it...

 

Well, I had a nice long post typed up but lost it..

Anyway, Karin, the idea of maintaining a list of all eligible members for a random drawing of 5 would require a tremendous amount of work just to compile, let alone maintain such a list. This may be accomplished by just coming up with a list of say 20 random member numbers and the 1st 5 to meet the criteria necessary for nomination will be in the voting. Now I chose 20 due to the fact that roughly 1300 of our 8000+ registered members have over 5 posts. One of the previous requirements for eligibility is to have 3+ posts in each of the two preceeding months, but I see that failed to make it into the updated rules I posted... LOL. 20 may even be low...

Using that idea, here is a list of 25 member numbers randomly selected from the entire list:
7634 - lamaredskin - Joined: 8/25/2007 - Total Posts: 0
4661 - CaboKP - Joined: 12/11/2006 - Total Posts: 4
4542 - only993 - Joined: 12/2/2006 - Total Posts: 0
2444 - jaris - Joined: 4/14/2006 - Total Posts: 0
3132 - MyHoopdie - Joined: 7/8/2006 - Total Posts: 2
5363 - cobra777 - Joined: 2/1/2007 - Total Posts: 1
7561 - racerxseven - Joined: 8/17/2007 - Total Posts: 0
3261 - lubinshan - Joined: 7/22/2006 - Total Posts: 0
782 - 98BlackS10Blaz - Joined: 6/22/2005 - Total Posts: 1
3393 - SoDakBlazer - Joined: 8/5/2006 - Total Posts: 1
1007 - bobcat31male - Joined: 8/14/2005 - Total Posts: 0
4018 - tfhickey - Joined: 10/16/2006 - Total Posts: 0
4322 - ChevyB_1028 - Joined: 11/14/2006 - Total Posts: 0
5392 - 07g5gt - Joined: 2/5/2007 - Total Posts: 20
2817 - blazer3 - Joined: 6/2/2006 - Total Posts: 2
6332 - envoy2nv - Joined: 4/23/2007 - Total Posts: 0
7850 - BlazinHaze - Joined: 9/14/2007 - Total Posts: 0
1671 - 00BlueBlazer - Joined: 1/2/2006 - Total Posts: 0
1205 - KurtDCobain4ever - Joined: 10/11/2005 - Total Posts: 10
7632 - jtharp17 - Joined: 8/25/2007 - Total Posts: 2
1789 - Kraker_Jax - Joined: 1/19/2006 - Total Posts: 2
4625 - Nations811 - Joined: 12/8/2006 - Total Posts: 2
5890 - cheap1 - Joined: 3/19/2007 - Total Posts: 0
6619 - ironanimals - Joined: 5/19/2007 - Total Posts: 0
7075 - 99blklt4wd - Joined: 6/30/2007 - Total Posts: 2

Now that was just an exersize more for myself to see how long it would take to get all of that information. With that said, it took me well over 30 minutes to get all of that together. And out of 25 numbers generated and none of them meet the requirements.

On the 12 month waiting period. I'm leaning towards adopting this. There has only been one case (Chevy Lover) where someone has repeated inside the 12 month period and that was for a different vehicle entirely so does that even apply here... And about that, Rob didn't even want to run in the January '07 ROTM, but was encouraged to. I will say one more thing about that. This site has grown by leaps and bounds since the first of the year. We have MANY more members and a growing staff as well. This is primarily why we are having this discussion.

Not that we have been ignoring it, but how does everyone feel about the requirements for eligibility (activity and length of membership)?

Sorry for the long post folks...

 

I'm not sure I like the idea of just randomly selectinglike you did above, (I was amazed at how many people have been members for months and not made a single post!) and I agree that there needs to be some kind of involvement prerequisite, but not one for mods, as lastcoupe said some of us vote for the people to,not just thetruck.I think we should still have nominations, but have limits on how many people you can nominate at once.
Ialso like the 12 month idea, even though it would probably be rare that that would happen.

 

Here's another idea, hopefully someone didnt come up with this since there's alot to read in this thread. Lets say we nominate 5 people for December, and of course 1 person wins. Now the other 4 people can't be nominated till the Febuary ROTM. So in other words 4 people can't be nonminated till the following month that way we don't have the same trucks nonminated every month and it'll give some of our newer members a shot at running for ROTM. Now I feel that members need to wait at least one month before being nominated. We can't really base it on post counts because alot people can't get online alot because of work or other personal reasons. Again someone might have come up with this, but thats just my .02's on it. Oh yea people also have to have galleries to get nominated.

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I just noticed what Blackjacket wrote and if people have zero posts but have been on for awhile should not be considered in the nominations.

 

I agree that you should be on the forum for atleast 3 months before being eligible for ROTM. This gives you a chance to rack up some posts, gain some experience on the forum, and get a feel for the forum, meet some people, and become able to give some advice on their own too.

I like the 12month waiting period if you have already won ROTM, even if you have two vehicles that you have on the forum. Personally I also think that the vehicles that can be voted on should be S10-Blazers, K5s, trailblazer, and anything that shares the same platform. The vehicles do not need to be modded to be voted on, but I am sure it would help.

I like the idea of everyone is only allowed to nominate one person each month and then depending on when you accept your nomination, be placed in a list from earliest acceptance to last acceptance for the first ten days of the month. Then use the randomizer to pick five vehicles and then have people send in the link for their picture and post those up and have voting till the end of the month. The idea that people can not be voted on two months in a row is a good idea. What I would like to see is that say the 4 people that don't win ROTM in July, can't be voted on again till the September vote.

Also Kyle if you want any help running the ROTM, I am more than willing to help out with it.

 

What if you did something like a post quota or something. That would weed out the people with little or no posts. There is a place in the member profile that shows the date the last post was made on. Just randomizing it for everyone will include the people who signed on the site just to sell something. It might seem like a little work, but if an account has been active for over a year or two with no posts and no login in the past one or two years, it should be deleted for the purpose of the randomizing thingie.

I did come up with something like that and it was deemed as a little too much work controlling something like that. Could it be done, yes. But with all the other stuff that is being aded, it is a little too much to follow. Good idea though. The randomizing aspect kind of takes care of this problem anyway. My view of this aspect is that say lastcoupe (for example) was nominated for march rotm in '08 and was picked in the randomization and then was picked again in april '08, what do you think the chances would be of being picked again for may '08. I'm sure even if someone was being picked by the randomizing software a few too many times in a row, we would change it to make someone else eligible.

I like the 12 month aspect though. Someone who runs and wins in say november, shouldn't be able to run until the next november, not january like the current rule.

 

i agree with alot of what everyone has said about the rotm if your nominated one month and don't win you should be able to be nominated again and if you win you don't get nominated til that month the following year just the whole nominating the nominees would be a lil difficult if you don't know who is still active and who isn't. im just saying that forthose who are new, those of us who have been on for a long time and have gotten to know one another know who's here and who's not we know who we can vote for and who not to because there no longer an active member so to sum it up i just like a random choose who want narrow it down to most votes for top 5 then have the regular top 5 vote off for rotm

 

That's why I am a moderator of the rotm voting, to help Kyle sort out the voting and catch any mistakes if there is any. I think it will be easier than people think. Shoot me a pm Kyle or meet me on im to discuss how the voting is going to work so I know, if you are going to start it this coming month.