Best of the Month Contest

[An'ei Sekitan]

So I remember we had these back in ancient times, where someone would get voted the best Shinobi, or Best Non-staff Helper and so on, and I actually really liked that contest. It promoted a work ethic, before it turned into "who is my favorite?" and people didn't bother reading any other RPs. However, I would like it to come back, but with a bit of a twist and a little bit more emphasis on checking out people's RPs, characters, work ethic and talent.

I think the prizes could be Ryo (for OOC and staff stuff), Items, TP, and Scraps (Like a first/second/third place kinida thing obviously not in that order). Now, before anyone gets all wild about the TP reward, the contest wouldn't reward even 500 TP. Maybe up to 50 toward the next Tech you wanted to learn (which could be split between techs you're learning), that way you still have to learn the technique, you just get a little bit of help for it that you earned. Ryo could be given to the 4th place and down peeps and people who vote, a little incentive to toss in a vote, with a die roll wild card or up to 3 wild cards that could get an item, scrap, or TP for voting and 1 single wild card for those things for getting an OOC prize. The same person cannot get 1st place in the same category the next month, but could be first place multiple times in an acceptable month (Up to 3 categories).

1 single scrap given to the first place guy, TP helping hand to the second place guy, and item to the third place guy, wild card slots for 4th and down or for voters. This gets everyone involved, because people love winning, and people love having an opinion.

Staff would obviously have to regulate it, cause I can't. Lol. But it would be an interesting kick in the pants for an oldie but a goodie. Obviously this is all up for discussion and hopefully not just a flat out no, but if it is a flat out no, that's perfectly fine too. I don't run shit around here. Haha.

[Deleted]

I brought this up a while ago and they said no one voted anymore. I'm all for in bringing this back.

[KoKoKo]

I like the thought of this but it will be upto heero if we do any of the prizes

[👺 Usiel]

I don't mind bringing this back but people don't vote, and the ones that do vote it's the same people over and over, with that it wont be TP given out because again it's the same people that wins.

[Deleted]

we can try for two months, what the harm? If no one votes for two months, then it not time to bring back yet.

[👺 Usiel]

I'll see if someone from staff wants to do it but TP wont be a prize.

[Nira]

On it.

[An'ei Sekitan]

I figured about the TP. haha. Not a major concern, I just really liked this contest a lot. It was cool. But, if you want people to vote, they need incentives too. So don't leave them hanging. Voting only works so long as people think the vote they give is worth something, so make their vote worth something as well.

[👺 Usiel]

Well check out the new contest Nira made, I think she did a good job on it.

[An'ei Sekitan]

I'll do that immediately. Any and all questions should be able to be brought up here as well, I suppose, so I won't have it locked. People might have more questions, so this would be a good central location I think.

Edit: Looks pretty friggin' good! I'm out of the loop and wouldn't be able to vote this month. So many new people. But I am going to read every single thread for the month of November to see who is the best for each category. If I'm quick enough, I should be able to still vote.

[Ryutatsu "Sakurai Sword"]

I would vote if I knew where to vote. I met some interesting and helpful people here.

[An'ei Sekitan]

narutoforumrp.proboards.com/thread/109536/monthly-awards-october-november-voting

There you go.

[~Emi~]

I think we'll keep up the motivation to vote and actual ability to get different people winning by not having it each month. Have like 3, 4,5 or 6 month intervalls instead.

And am I the only one getting sad from this kind of things as nobody even votes for me on anything? Just unpopular, bad or not active enough? don't know, but for some reason I don't deserve any vote.

[An'ei Sekitan]

Haha. It's not that at all. Since this is fresh as all get out, sort of, people haven't really put in the time to read some posts. I made a second suggestion, just below this, for a section for spotlight threads as well, so that it would be easier for people to see the work of others. Mods could check it out, see what they think, because I think that would help as well. This is the era of TL;DR, so gotta make things easier if you wanna get out there.