August 2008 MOTM Nominations

[cwa107]

Welcome, to the Member of the Month Awards. (MF:MotM)

It's time to start the nominations for the August 2008 Mac-Forums Member of the Month!

Rules:

-You CAN Nominate who ever you want. Please Do NOT Nominate yourself.
-You can nominate the same person as someone else, but It doesn't count.
-You do not have to nominate anyone.
-Moderators are not eligible.
-Nominations will be accepted for up to 3-4 days after the thread opens.
-Voting will last for approximately 2 days
-Nominating Opens on or around the first Friday of the month
-Only one winner. Ties will be broken by private moderator vote.
-Nominations do not guarantee you will be posted in the poll. (background checks will be run on all nominators and nominatees)
-Nominations with out reasons will be ignored (you can add reasons at any time when the thread is open).
-Limited number of Nominations will be put on the poll, excess Nominations will be sorted through by magic.
-Nominations can be made in the Official Member of the Month Awards thread. (This thread)
-If there are too few nominations, the spaces will get filled by magic.
-Last Months nominations will be deleted from this thread when a new month is started.
-If any member begs for votes or nominations, they risk being banned.

-All rules are subject to change at anytime for any reason by any moderator without any forewarning.

Choosing a Member to be Nominated:
-Member must be valuable to M-F
-You CAN nominate them just because you like them.
-Be honest and make the best choice for M-F!

Voting 101:
-Will be a Poll in this thread or one near it.
-Vote based on who you honestly believe is the most valuable member of the group.
-Vote for yourself, unless you think someone is better than you.

Winners:
-You get a beautiful M-F:MotM tag! (for 1 month)
-You are granted Listed Voice in the IRC chat! (if you already have voice... well, then you get nothing new)
-You get permission to put "I was on the M-F honor roll for month:month" (size=1 line #5)
-You get 5-10 reputation points added to your total.
-You're the M-F:MotM! Smile! :black:

Make your nominations below. Say the name and say why. But keep it simple and ON TOPIC. Please post in any other valid thread for your comments, all posts that are not nominations will be deleted.

Thread Closes on Monday, 8/4 @ 9:00am, Eastern Daylight Time. Nominations after that time will be ignored.

 

[Kash]

I nominate goobimama.

 

[WilliamMunny]

i nominate Netty because she is a grade school teacher.

 

[dtravis7]

So far we have goobimama and Netty.

Any other nominations?

 

[Kash]

Looks like a rather slow month. I'll throw bryphotoguy, lifeisabeach, and dtravis into the mix

 

[dtravis7]

Thanks Kash but I can't be in the running as I am now a Mod. Appreciate the Nomination though!

 

[Kash]

I know, that was supposed to garner a nomination for me by you ;P

 

[the8thark]

I feel Discerptor has been rather helpful and generally nice this month. So that person gets my vote.

And I would have nominated you too Kash. But the rules to say beggers (for nominations) can get banned. And I so don't want that to happen to you.

 

[Kash]

And I would have nominated you too Kash. But the rules to say beggers (for nominations) can get banned. And I so don't want that to happen to you.

Wouldn't be the first time ;D

 

[cwa107]

OK, so far we have...

Goobimama
Netty4Mac
bryphotoguy
lifeisabeach
Discerptor

 

[louishen]

This is going to be a tough one, I would like to vote for all of them

 

[eric]

louishen

 

[dtravis7]

Right now we have:

Goobimama
Netty4Mac
bryphotoguy
lifeisabeach
Discerptor
louishen

 

[louishen]

I know it seems like tokenism but....

hasn't eric been MOTM yet, he's got some serious pips to his name?

 

[eric]

yeah, i was, i believe within a year ago, so i'm sure i'm not eligable.

 

[Kash]

Actually, it looks like eligibility requirements are no longer applicable. We used to get a list of the past year's winners, and I've seen recent winners making the vote just a few months after winning.

In place of travis, I'll throw my support behind eric

 

[baggss]

Ya, I wondered about that. Have the rules changed mods?

 

[dtravis7]

I don't remember when they changed but it's been quite a while now that the rules changed. Still though Mods can not be nominated nor nominate either, so all I can do now is vote and try to get more users nominating!

 

[skaheadpunk]

Hughvane! Cos he's always so nice.

 

[cwa107]

I don't remember when they changed but it's been quite a while now that the rules changed. Still though Mods can not be nominated nor nominate either, so all I can do now is vote and try to get more users nominating!

Just to be clear, there used to be a policy that a former MOTM could not be nominated in a 12 month period, but that rule is no longer enforced.