Post by Ashmadai on Dec 13, 2007 0:04:11 GMT -5
Board of the Month:
Nomination guidelines
1. Only 5 nominees will be accepted per contest.
2. You may nominate your own board.
3. If your board wins, it cannot be nominated again for a year.
4. If somebody else nominates your board the month after you nominated your own, the nomination will be accepted.
5. Nominations will be accepted until the voting thread for the next month is made, which is usually at the beginning of the month.
6. A good board is based on whatever makes you happy.
7. When you make a nomination please include the Board URL and a reason why you like the site. Only the board URL will be accepted for the running.
8. A nomination must be seconded by a non-biased person before it will be accepted as a nomination. That means the second must come from somebody who is not affiliated with the board being nominated.
9. You can nominate as many boards as you'd like but please second only one or two.
10. All seconded Nominations recieved will be thrown into a hat and 5 final nominees will be pulled. This selection is 100% random! We will number each nomination and use the generator at www.random.org/sform.html to pick the order. The first 5 boards will be the nominees chosen.
11. If you are pulled in the draw and your board or server is not up when the poll is made (at the start of the month), then an alternate board will take the place of your board. No exceptions.
12. When we get 5 finalists, a poll will be taken to vote for the best board.
Voting guidelines
1. Only 5 nominees will be up for voting each month.
2. The person voting may judge a board on his or her own personal criteria. So what makes a board worth voting for, is up to each individual voter. Comments as to why or why not a person votes for a board are welcome as long as the comments are constructive in nature.
3. A board could be disqualified or lose votes when:
- the owner or any other person rallies for votes.... anywhere. Here is an example of rallying.
"Hey! Our board is nominated for BotM at The Bulletin Board, run on over there and vote for us and show your support!"
What is in red, which is rallying, is not allowed. The rest of the above example is fine. You may also comment on any "features" from your board in the actual voting thread in order to "sell" your board if you'd like to.
- the owner or any other person adds more than three users to their "Admins" list in the Member's area. Be aware that the userids are saved with the poll votes and these userids can be bumped up against the "admins" list that we have on record. That means this type of cheating can be caught, so don't even think about doing it.
- the style of the board is changed sometime during the month of voting. The board's style must stay the same throughout the month.
- the board must stay active for the whole month.
- the board must not be changed to another system.
4. Once a board is in the poll, it stays. Requests to be "pulled out" will not be accepted. If your board violates the rules.. it will become ineligible to win.
5. If you are a new member please do not vote if your registration isn't over 30 days old. Votes from members registered within 30 days prior to the start of the poll will not be counted. This is not reflected in the poll but I will let everyone know if these types of votes changes the result.
6. Do not post accusations of cheating or immoral conduct. Anyone who has a grief should send me a PM.
7. As a last request: Please write only positive comments. If you must write something negative please add a suggestion on how what you don't like may be improved. Thanks.
If you have any more opinions/ ideas for other guidelines or opinions on these guidelines, please feel free to post them.
And as always......have fun!
The BotY will be chosen from the monthly winners. A board has to be up and operating when selected and it must stay up for 30 days.
Nomination guidelines
1. Only 5 nominees will be accepted per contest.
2. You may nominate your own board.
3. If your board wins, it cannot be nominated again for a year.
4. If somebody else nominates your board the month after you nominated your own, the nomination will be accepted.
5. Nominations will be accepted until the voting thread for the next month is made, which is usually at the beginning of the month.
6. A good board is based on whatever makes you happy.
7. When you make a nomination please include the Board URL and a reason why you like the site. Only the board URL will be accepted for the running.
8. A nomination must be seconded by a non-biased person before it will be accepted as a nomination. That means the second must come from somebody who is not affiliated with the board being nominated.
9. You can nominate as many boards as you'd like but please second only one or two.
10. All seconded Nominations recieved will be thrown into a hat and 5 final nominees will be pulled. This selection is 100% random! We will number each nomination and use the generator at www.random.org/sform.html to pick the order. The first 5 boards will be the nominees chosen.
11. If you are pulled in the draw and your board or server is not up when the poll is made (at the start of the month), then an alternate board will take the place of your board. No exceptions.
12. When we get 5 finalists, a poll will be taken to vote for the best board.
Voting guidelines
1. Only 5 nominees will be up for voting each month.
2. The person voting may judge a board on his or her own personal criteria. So what makes a board worth voting for, is up to each individual voter. Comments as to why or why not a person votes for a board are welcome as long as the comments are constructive in nature.
3. A board could be disqualified or lose votes when:
- the owner or any other person rallies for votes.... anywhere. Here is an example of rallying.
"Hey! Our board is nominated for BotM at The Bulletin Board, run on over there and vote for us and show your support!"
What is in red, which is rallying, is not allowed. The rest of the above example is fine. You may also comment on any "features" from your board in the actual voting thread in order to "sell" your board if you'd like to.
- the owner or any other person adds more than three users to their "Admins" list in the Member's area. Be aware that the userids are saved with the poll votes and these userids can be bumped up against the "admins" list that we have on record. That means this type of cheating can be caught, so don't even think about doing it.
- the style of the board is changed sometime during the month of voting. The board's style must stay the same throughout the month.
- the board must stay active for the whole month.
- the board must not be changed to another system.
4. Once a board is in the poll, it stays. Requests to be "pulled out" will not be accepted. If your board violates the rules.. it will become ineligible to win.
5. If you are a new member please do not vote if your registration isn't over 30 days old. Votes from members registered within 30 days prior to the start of the poll will not be counted. This is not reflected in the poll but I will let everyone know if these types of votes changes the result.
6. Do not post accusations of cheating or immoral conduct. Anyone who has a grief should send me a PM.
7. As a last request: Please write only positive comments. If you must write something negative please add a suggestion on how what you don't like may be improved. Thanks.
If you have any more opinions/ ideas for other guidelines or opinions on these guidelines, please feel free to post them.
And as always......have fun!
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The BotY will be chosen from the monthly winners. A board has to be up and operating when selected and it must stay up for 30 days.