Community Awards - Part I: Suggest Categories!

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Community Awards - Part I: Suggest Categories!

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Due to popular demand, we'll be dishing out some porks and perks: the PHPDevNet's Community Awards 2005!

How it works

Simple: at this point, all you need to do is suggest one or more award categories. DO NOT suggest persons at all at this point. Simpy suggest one or more category (e.g. "Most helpful Member" or "Member with the most beautiful nail polish") on this thread.

Deadline for award-suggestions is 06 June 2005. After that the moderators and site admins will select the best 10 categories and aks for nominations then. So: only post categories, no names on this very thread.
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Post by phpScott »

to start off how about
best avatar
best signiture

oh well that inspiration stopped rather suddenly :(
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Post by neophyte »

How about:

"THE GRAND FOOBAR" Award/Title - The most knowledgeable PHP Coder, and most helpful person.

Obviously not myself! :roll:
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Well from my point of view ( I'm a manager - I must have a point of view :D )

Maybe After the categories are set - create a poll engine to let users vote on those categories + Mod's votes.

Use existing forums structure to decide on the broad category distinction.

Because most of awards were tightly connected to some function the person/group have done - why not accept that trend.

And yeah do not only award only 1, but also allow grouping of the members for receiving some title's and awards.

This will in some level over-lap with the "scripter, coder, guru, pro" descriptions - so maybe it's just nececary to better name those descriptions and maybe add some other categories.

Off course thing like the most out-of-the ordinary gags and mind-twisting questions asked can easily be used to create good fun and make the award for this an interesting one.

Now nothing specificaly comes to my mind, but there are always statistics data quantity and quality measured in the right way - can be usefull.
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Most Kind - The person who has helped the most people in every possible way.
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Post by Sphen001 »

I've got a few...

The most n00b newbie award. (EDIT: For those who didn't get it, this is just a joke)
The most like Feyd award.

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Can you just give me the "The most n00b newbie award." please :lol: :lol: :lol:

lol
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Calimero wrote:Well from my point of view ( I'm a manager - I must have a point of view :D )

Maybe After the categories are set - create a poll engine to let users vote on those categories + Mod's votes.

Use existing forums structure to decide on the broad category distinction.

Because most of awards were tightly connected to some function the person/group have done - why not accept that trend.

And yeah do not only award only 1, but also allow grouping of the members for receiving some title's and awards.

This will in some level over-lap with the "scripter, coder, guru, pro" descriptions - so maybe it's just nececary to better name those descriptions and maybe add some other categories.

Off course thing like the most out-of-the ordinary gags and mind-twisting questions asked can easily be used to create good fun and make the award for this an interesting one.

Now nothing specificaly comes to my mind, but there are always statistics data quantity and quality measured in the right way - can be usefull.
The procedure is:
1. once the categories for the awards (not ranks, as I believe, you've confused the two) are clear we we will
2. Have nominees for each category. The top five nominees for each category will be
3. Voted on in a poll

Currently we are at step 1 - so please only suggest categories, no persons, no discussion of the procedures etc. If you have comments or questions, open up a seperate thread in "General Discussion". :) (anyone who thinks this is undemocratic: no-one ever said it was) ;)
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Category Suggestion: Something such as "Most Unique Theorizer", in the sense that they came up with interesting and efficient ways to solve a programming theory.

I know the one feature I love the most about Devnetwork is the Programming Theory forum - the advanced discussion about how to logically solve a problem, instead of just throwing code out, isn't something you see other places.
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Post by anjanesh »

Sphen001 wrote:The most like Feyd award.
Truly, Feyd was the most helpful (and is prev posts are still helpfull) - he deserves most of the awards (categories) you have in mind.
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Post by shiznatix »

how about the most quickly advancing. iv seen many people here get real good real fast.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

The Virtual Stud Muffin Award
The Most Geek-like Award
The "Most Blonde" Award

Ok some serious one's now :wink:

The Fastest Advancing Newcomer
The Most logically minded
The most employable award
The most inspirational Award
The most Peculiar award
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Post by neophyte »

How bout an award for the guy who knows the PHP manual best?

IATFM Award

(I Am The ... Manual) Award

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- Most helpful
- Most friendly/funny
- Most inspirational
- Most likely to cause a eureka! moment (points out the OH! solutions often)

I really don't think there are many other categories.. Most n00b is practically insulting, imho. Everyone was a newbie at some point.
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Post by pickle »

Devnetwork deals with databases as well so how about an award dealing with SQL? "SQL Monkey" or something similarly honourable :)
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