Voice your oppinion on a new QOTM voting

[TheFontMaster]

There will be a new way of voting that I will be putting in place by the begining of the year. I know there was some controversy over this last month's contest, so here is a thread where you can brainstorm, and come up with ideas. I already got a thought in my head, but I'd still like to see what everyone else comes up with.

[hornetgod13]

I suggest moderators and prior winners vote.

[Pipeless416]

i agree with the above, or if that doesn't work, i think voters should be active, long time members. its too easy to get all your friends to create accounts just to vote.

[<DRS>GPF]

Originally posted by Pipeless416
i agree with the above, or if that doesn't work, i think voters should be active, long time members. its too easy to get all your friends to create accounts just to vote.

agreed..

perhaps a minimum post count should be considered.

maybe even a "patrons only" voting rule, thatll definitely sift out the one time posters..

[Pipeless416]

i think the patrons only idea would need to be sorted out 100% first. it seems like there are still quite a few people that have donated or bought atvriders.com merchandise that still have not been moved to patron status.

[CADWELL]

I may not have a ton of posts here but I've been a member at this site for a little while and longer in others to know how the rules work.

What I mean is, just because my post count isn't the highest, I don't think that that should limit to where I can post or vote for QOTM for that matter.

Obviously this was a direct violation of the rules therefore that entry/member's quad should be eliminated from the contest and maybe a one week re-vote should take place for that month's entries or make the second place quad the QOTM.

[AtvMxRider]

Originally posted by Pipeless416
it seems like there are still quite a few people that have donated or bought atvriders.com merchandise that still have not been moved to patron status.

And you won't because the Patron thing was from the previous owner of the site.

[Pipeless416]

Originally posted by AtvMxRider
And you won't because the Patron thing was from the previous owner of the site.

im not concerned about it, but this is another good reason why that way can't be used.

[<DRS>GPF]

Originally posted by AtvMxRider
And you won't because the Patron thing was from the previous owner of the site.

i wasnt aware that detail had changed...

well then, scratch that idea..

having been through this as a moderator on another site, what we had come up with was you had to have x number of valid, on topic posts. we kept trying to improve upon this every month, but after a few months...qotm went by the wayside...and shortly after that, so did the traffic on the site...it is still around, just not nearly as busy as it once was

i was thinking of maybe having a panel of 101 or so members. obviously, the entrants cannot be on the panel and the panel would change every month. there would be a set of rules pm-ed to each panel member as to what they are to be judging the quad for, using the panel members personal point system.


each month could have special bonus point, that are known only to the fontmaster and the panel...for instance one month can be best aftermarket suspension. using this example, if someone has a full after market suspension, then they get 5 points for a full aftermarket, 3 points for revavles all around, 2 points for just front am and no extra points for a stock suspension. then the following month could be powdercoating, the following month could focus on graphics, etc etc. the special category would not be known to anyone other than the panel members and the fontmaster, until the winner is announced. any one revealing the special category will be taken off of the panel. each panel member only gets one vote.