Post by Value on Jul 8, 2016 12:14:25 GMT -5
So, let's talk OTM.
Up until now, it's been run as a nomination and vote. Only one (or two in the event of a tie) could win. Most of that left a few people or threads as getting votes, and the rest of the nominations were kind of left in the dust. Once upon a time, winning even had a GP reward for it! Thankfully, we've long since moved beyond that. But as time passed, OTM has received less and less attention from the community, fewer and fewer nominations...and we've had some pretty shaky months this year.
So an idea got passed into staff, and thrown about a bit. We already have a gratitude thread that focuses on things outside of BG. What we're proposing is turning OTM into a place where you can recognize and commend people and threads for their work on BG. Whether that's because of their staff work, how they helped you specifically, their writing ability, what their character is doing, or a particularly fucking spectacular thread, it'd all go in here. Moving to this would mean that there's no need to nominate and then vote, you're complimenting someone directly for what they did that's awesome.
Thoughts? We might want to keep this open only for a week at a time, to limit potential spam, or to make sure that someone can only pick two of each category and ensure they're offering their recognition to the people they think most deserve it, as it were. Or we could leave it open all the time at the risk of people spamming it up constantly. Are people happy with what we have now and don't want to change it? Is the concept of OTM and this kind of recognition dead but for Of The Year? Feel free to give your feedback here for pretty much everything related to it.
Up until now, it's been run as a nomination and vote. Only one (or two in the event of a tie) could win. Most of that left a few people or threads as getting votes, and the rest of the nominations were kind of left in the dust. Once upon a time, winning even had a GP reward for it! Thankfully, we've long since moved beyond that. But as time passed, OTM has received less and less attention from the community, fewer and fewer nominations...and we've had some pretty shaky months this year.
So an idea got passed into staff, and thrown about a bit. We already have a gratitude thread that focuses on things outside of BG. What we're proposing is turning OTM into a place where you can recognize and commend people and threads for their work on BG. Whether that's because of their staff work, how they helped you specifically, their writing ability, what their character is doing, or a particularly fucking spectacular thread, it'd all go in here. Moving to this would mean that there's no need to nominate and then vote, you're complimenting someone directly for what they did that's awesome.
Thoughts? We might want to keep this open only for a week at a time, to limit potential spam, or to make sure that someone can only pick two of each category and ensure they're offering their recognition to the people they think most deserve it, as it were. Or we could leave it open all the time at the risk of people spamming it up constantly. Are people happy with what we have now and don't want to change it? Is the concept of OTM and this kind of recognition dead but for Of The Year? Feel free to give your feedback here for pretty much everything related to it.
