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by expressman33 » Fri Nov 02 2018 9:35am
richard@imutual wrote:
Future competitions
I'm making a bit of a change to the rules from this month onwards. We have some regular 'features, such as the quizzes and football comps, which deservedly get lots of thanks and frequently feature in the POTM prizes. However, I think there is a perception that potm awards can tend to be dominated by this category of post at the expense of other original topics and new members. Some may even withhold thanking these posts as a result - -which can't be right
From now onwards, I will exclude such posts from the main Post-of-the-month competition, but may promote some to a 'special' status and award 100 shares. The reasoning is that I think the spirit of potm should be to recognise and encourage substantive and original contributions on a variety of subjects, and it would also be good to see the prizes shared out amongst more members, especially newbies. I hope you can see my reasoning; competition posts can be a great asset to the site and I want to see the best ones properly recognised, whilst also ensuring that potm serves its original purpose of promoting valuable and original contributions
Note: someone receiving a 'special award' can still qualify for potm with their other posts.
Good luck to everyone in this month's competition. For a summary of how the competition works,
click here.
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by kevinchess1 » Fri Nov 02 2018 9:48pm
Also
richard@imutual wrote:
As I did in an earlier competition, I've treated the tcb thread differently because threads like that do tend to attract a large volume of "thanks", even when they consist of a single word - which is not really what this comp should be about. So I give a special award to the thread starter but otherwise exclude it from the main awards
If a majority think they should be treated the same as other posts, then I'll reconsider.
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by Richard Frost » Fri Nov 02 2018 10:05pm
kevinchess1 wrote:Also
richard@imutual wrote:As I did in an earlier competition, I've treated the tcb thread differently because threads like that do tend to attract a large volume of "thanks", even when they consist of a single word - which is not really what this comp should be about. So I give a special award to the thread starter but otherwise exclude it from the main awards
If a majority think they should be treated the same as other posts, then I'll reconsider.
If this statement by Richard still stands then mackem should have got a special award should he not? In which case he is right and I was wrong. So I apologise to him for that.
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by kevinchess1 » Fri Nov 02 2018 10:58pm
Yes I agree
But it's up to macky to chase it up
I suspect he wait until he gets home .... on Sunday
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