The Awards -- How It Works

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the following information was originally compiled by eternity, and tweaked by me

This Board

This board is for discussion of the awards and their progress. Any suggestions must be PMed to a staff member, please do not post them in this board.

The Nominations Board

This board is for deciding who is eligible for an award. Members can nominate as many people as they like for each award but in the end, can only vote for one person. All nominees will be added into the poll where possible but if there are more than 35 (unlikely as it may sound) the first 35 nominees will be used.

Nominations run from February 5th 2009 to February 19th 2009. That gives you two weeks in which to nominate members for each award.

Rules

• No nominating yourself, that's just pathetic
  
  
• Banned members will not be counted as nominations, please save yourself the time and do not nominate them.
  
  
• Note that there are different categories for a reason, please do not nominate members in staff categories or vice versa for example.
  
  
  • The [member] category applies to all members of the forum and does not include staff
    
  • The [staff] category is for staff members only.
    
  • The [herald] category is for members of the Herald team.
    
  • The [artgroup] category is for members of the art group.
    
  • The [forum] category is for threads and events that have occurred on SSD.
  
  All other categories therefore, do not have any restrictions and nominations can be made without regard for forum position or group membership.
  
  
• Nominations should reflect the category. Do not nominate someone who is miserable for "happiest member", or a member who has been around for several years for "favorite new member" for example.
  
  
• If someone has already been put down for nomination, then don't repeat the nomination. They only need to be nominated once.

The Voting Board

This board comes into play once the nominations have been made. I will make polls for each award containing the names of those nominated. Members then vote in the poll for their choice of member. The winner is the nominee with the most votes.

Polls will be posted during the day of February 19th and 20th 2009 and will close two weeks afterwards. Again, that gives you two weeks in which to vote in all of the polls.

Rules

• No voting for yourself. Other people will vote for you if they feel you deserve the award. Please note that signing up with another account to vote will result in us discounting all of your votes as well as those from your alternate accounts.
  
  
• If you change your mind about who you have voted for please remember that you can retract your vote (if you do not know how to do this, pm a staff member), do not create another account so that your vote is correct.