[Suggestion] NB award suggestion

[Sagebee]

No, it would be a special position. Whether Zise makes another usergroup to make it distinct depends on him. You can basically think of them as a little above the members as they have a responsibility to keep discussion ongoing. If you want to make it into a hierarchy it will look like this :-

Mods
Contributors
Members

Mods oversee the Contributors.
Contributors encourage members to post in certain threads or make certain threads.

An update to my previous suggestion : The Bonus Award for Distinction members could include a Contributor spot.

Cool I like this idea

 

[Legendary Broly]

If you make many people contributors at the same time then everyone will have to be given Premium. That will take away the uniqueness of the position.The three contributor positions can be rotated monthly. The people chosen for the contributor spots could be decided below :-

We can have other categories which will reward those people who participate and encourage discussion other than the contributors. Let's call them distinction members.
For example we can have a
Top Poster category.
Quality Poster category.
etc.

So, the system could be :-

At the end of each month,
The Three Contributors get prizes.
The distinction members who encourage discussions get the bonus awards.
The next round of contributors are chosen from the distinction members.

Sorry, I was not clear about what I was trying to say. I kind of meant something along the lines of what you call "distinction awards". I was trying to say that we should encourage all members to contribute better content and to have better quality discussions as opposed to delegating the task to only 3 members. So instead, everyone on the Base is challenged and incentivized to make better contributions in terms of threads and posts. So there would be one award called "Manga Discussion Thread of the Month (or) Week" award for example that is fair game for everyone. Kind of see what I am trying to say? xd And branching off from that you can even add in those distinction awards you mentioned.

However, I like chucking in the role of contributor as I believe members will strive for the role and work hard to be it (people tend to try hard to get a position of responsibility/meaningfulness on this site lol) so we would get competitive threads and good content. However, the opposite could happen and other members rebelling against the threads made by contributors and not want to participate in the thread just to be annoying or because it could be obvious that contributors have an ulterior motive to posting threads. Assigned contributors would have a 1/3 chance of winning an award at the end of the month. Those are pretty low odds and could be seen as unfair. Members may become disheartened as they are not in the award running and not involve themselves. While "distinction awards" are awesome, because they are not in the running for the "top award" this could cause a lack of motivation to continue participating.

That is why I believe an award that encourages the whole Base to participate could be better for a few reasons:
1. The best contributor will definitely stand out as it is out of a larger pool of people which also means greater competition between members because of the larger group.
2. A member who comes up with an amazing theory who is not a contributor will be rightfully awarded.

Of course as aforementioned, a contributor role does have its positives not only its potential cons and I would love to see it in action. I guess the best way to find out an appropriate system is to let Ira and Nefertari brainstorm between themselves and experiment.:scorps:

 

[Josh]

If you don't have proper posts to input in the topic at hand then kindly don't post, thank you!

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As Nefertari said, I wouldn't mind recommending an award to someone who provided exemplary threads and had good discussions etc.
I guess if we were to go down the route then we'd need to pick from a list of recommended members (from other members) per month rather than for members to vote because people would just vote for a member because they are friends with each other and that's not fair to the other participants.
If we had to implement new awards specifically for categories like that, I wouldn't mind teaming up with Nefertari to design some new awards when I get my laptop.
Lets see what admins have to say

I may, every now and again, peruse through different sections to make such recommendations of members... as bias by me is nigh non-existent since what few people I call friends on here wouldn't be involved in such matters anyway, and I gain nothing from offering such recommendations. (Should this idea be implemented)

 

[loj]

This would be abused.

 

[Monxstaa]

I guess it would be helpful since it would show that the members get appreciated

 

[Natsu Shazneel]

Horrible idea... This will get the FBI to learn more about our intelligence.