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RE: ride of the month - 3/23/2008 12:57:05 PM
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Jharper
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No, you just get your blazer advertised on the front page of being ROTM, and your name will be edited to have ROTM (then whatever month you won), under it when you post, so everyone knows you have won ride of the month, ROTM is a privalage, and a great way to show people what youve got.
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RE: ride of the month - 3/23/2008 7:44:33 PM
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Plus its having that great feeling that other people on here like your ride as much as you do.
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RE: ride of the month - 3/23/2008 7:52:36 PM
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a_tack
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does mine say ROTM?? ive won twice and dont remember.... i guess ill find out when I submit this post..
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RE: ride of the month - 3/23/2008 8:04:23 PM
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swartlkk
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Sorry Aaron, guess that got reset when you became a section moderator. I'll change it when I get some time.
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RE: ride of the month - 3/24/2008 10:22:50 PM
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a_tack
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haha... you didnt have to do that kyle..lol i didnt really care what it said..
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 8:02:50 AM
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EuroGoldLS
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Well, heres how I see ride of the month:
When your vehicle goes up for voting, you tend to notice what the competition has vs. what you have, and it gives you a really good baseline of where to improve the looks of your ride.
Its also a friendly competition and its good for promoting the growth of the site along with familiarity between members, which is to say, you get to know everyone's ride and the style of their ride a little better.
Although I like the old way of doing it better, the new ROTM makes me think that the ROTM title has a lot less to do with the person behind the ride, as it did before, and more to do with ride itself.
Have you given any more thought to a ROTY and member spotlight, Kyle?
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 8:13:22 AM
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Although I like the old way of doing it better, the new ROTM makes me think that the ROTM title has a lot less to do with the person behind the ride, as it did before, and more to do with ride itself.
That's because it's RIDE of the month. When the poll was taken, everyone opted for Blazer (and related vehicles) of the Month with a member spotlight. I think the new way allows for a lot more variety among the rides.
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 8:22:15 AM
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By saying that, I was explioting a good point about the new way of doing it.
The Reason I like the old way:
The old way of doing it leaves us in no doubt of who actually made it into the ROTM, (not saying any of the ROTM staff would do this) but with the randomization, members are not able to see what goes on. How do we know if someone wasn't mistakenly left OUT of the ROTM (or God forbid discriminated against because he isn't well liked by that member of staff) I know you think I suspect something, but I know on other sites it has happend, and you can never know who to trust and people make mistakes. Thats just my view of the matter...
I agree with the BOTM and MS, but I havent heard anything about it except for the poll. You get the best of both worlds with both contests in place, and I hope it will keep rides with little or no reason to be in the ROTM out of the ROTM.
< Message edited by EuroGoldLS -- 3/25/2008 8:37:35 AM >
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 8:36:25 AM
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I don't want to start any shizzle seeing as how I have been on hiatus for a while and was not here when ROTM changed, but I agree with one of Brent's points. I have always had it as my opinion, unexpressed opinion, that if it is called RIDE of the month that it should be a tricked out ride being voted on. Not to offend anyone, but some of the rides that have gotten in for voting were not really in deservance of the honor. The member was in deservance of the honor of being an excellent member, but the ride was not really up to par for what ROTM sounds like it should be.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that we have alot of great members here, and they deserve to be like a Member of the month or something like that, and we have alot of excellent rides here that should be ROTM but are not. I guess ROTM is looked at as a member popularity contest rather than about who has a trick ride sometimes.
I don't know what happened with all the voting and polls to change ROTM, but it doesn't look like much has changed, at least to me anyway, but then again I have not been around to see how the selection process and all works yet.
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 8:40:16 AM
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I think the new way allows for a lot more variety among the rides.
acually the new way still tends to blazers or related vehicles. no cars have been aloud into the voting process.
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 9:44:55 AM
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I think the new way allows for a lot more variety among the rides.
acually the new way still tends to blazers or related vehicles. no cars have been aloud into the voting process.
No one has nominated other people's vehicles, whether it be people don't let others know about their vehicles or the one person who was nominated with a different ride than a blazer just happened to not make the randomization cut.
I sort of the like the new randomization thing, there is nothing wrong with it in my opinion but nomanations are still being made of the same people, they just don't all get in every month. I believe that since we have such a majority of closer to stock vehicles on this forum it would be tough to have only medium to extremely modded vehicles in the rotm since that would cut the number of eligible in half or more.
I do like the idea of member of the month or quarter/semester/year. I know there are a lot of hard working members on this forum that try helping people all the time that might not have what it takes to get voted as rotm, but I think they should be recoginezed in a similar fashion to rotm instead just as member of the month/quarter/semester/year. Well thats my opinion of the whole thing.
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 9:50:53 AM
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ORIGINAL: TripleBlackBlazer
I think the new way allows for a lot more variety among the rides.
acually the new way still tends to blazers or related vehicles. no cars have been aloud into the voting process.
this is BLAZER forum u know
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 10:04:13 AM
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TripleBlackBlazer
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By variety I meant a lot of nominations go in and only five come out. The random part of it increases the variety of Blazers and related vehicles (I should have said) instead of the same members every month.
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 10:25:26 AM
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Jharper
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OH okay now i get what your saying, sorry i misunderstood. but as for other vehicles being nominated, they cant, my GTP was nominated awhile back and Kyle said only the blazer could be nominated, i understand that tottaly, its nothing like a blazer lol. and as far as the randomization part, i like that alot, keeps the voting process fair, and gives everyone a fighting chance at the win 
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 10:40:06 AM
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I like the randomization for the same reason. I have screenshots of the most recent randomization as well as the link to the list. I covered my bases as well. I send my stuff to Kyle as I'm posting it so I have a secondary witness on top of screenshots and links. Believe me, I wouldn't want ROTM to be unfair in any way. We've had voting in record numbers the past few competitions and I really believe it's the new method that has attracted more votes.
Do I believe some members deserve it more than others? Yes. But everyone has their own method of voting. I vote for the truck that is most unique in most cases. If none stand out more than another I vote on how much the member contributes. You may vote differently. That's the beauty of ROTM. And the thing is, if someone doesn't win they can always be nominated next month.
As far as the Member Spotlight, I think it's a good way to show gratitude to those who really take a lot out of their lives to contribute here. Conversely, I believe the best way to show gratitude is to be polite and courteous to those people when they try to help you. There are some members on here who, if voted for ROTM and Member Spotlight...well, they would run out of room for all the titles below their username.
Remember that none of the Administator/Moderator positions are paid. People are volunteering their time, effort, and knowledge to the site. Common decency and courtesy can go a long way!
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 11:45:43 AM
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How do we know if someone wasn't mistakenly left OUT of the ROTM (or God forbid discriminated against because he isn't well liked by that member of staff) I know you think I suspect something, but I know on other sites it has happend, and you can never know who to trust and people make mistakes. Thats just my view of the matter...
I'm entirely sure that this has been pondered by staff before the decision was made. Also, everyone should know by now that staff doesnt really discriminate and are easy to get along with. If you do something bad enough to make staff dislike you, odds are your account is banned and you are not elligible anyway.
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 3:01:09 PM
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I like the randomization for the same reason. I have screenshots of the most recent randomization as well as the link to the list. I covered my bases as well. I send my stuff to Kyle as I'm posting it so I have a secondary witness on top of screenshots and links. Believe me, I wouldn't want ROTM to be unfair in any way. We've had voting in record numbers the past few competitions and I really believe it's the new method that has attracted more votes.
Do I believe some members deserve it more than others? Yes. But everyone has their own method of voting. I vote for the truck that is most unique in most cases. If none stand out more than another I vote on how much the member contributes. You may vote differently. That's the beauty of ROTM. And the thing is, if someone doesn't win they can always be nominated next month.
As far as the Member Spotlight, I think it's a good way to show gratitude to those who really take a lot out of their lives to contribute here. Conversely, I believe the best way to show gratitude is to be polite and courteous to those people when they try to help you. There are some members on here who, if voted for ROTM and Member Spotlight...well, they would run out of room for all the titles below their username.
Remember that none of the Administator/Moderator positions are paid. People are volunteering their time, effort, and knowledge to the site. Common decency and courtesy can go a long way!
I second that, great work Gary.
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 3:03:35 PM
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The first month I was nominated I was pumped, then I didn't make the randomization...
Worked out ok though because it gave me time to get new tires for this month's contest
Is there any sytem in place so someone doesn't get the short stick and lose in the randomization step each month? Something like if you're nominated 5 months in a row or something long, but never actually make it, you're in on the 6th?
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RE: ride of the month - 3/25/2008 3:27:50 PM
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The ROTM is open to the vehicles we support, the S-series & GMT360/370 SUVs (Blazer, Jimmy, Bravada, Trailblazer, Envoy, Rainier, & Ascender).
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ORIGINAL: rabbit0102030
I have always had it as my opinion, unexpressed opinion, that if it is called RIDE of the month that it should be a tricked out ride being voted on. Not to offend anyone, but some of the rides that have gotten in for voting were not really in deservance of the honor. The member was in deservance of the honor of being an excellent member, but the ride was not really up to par for what ROTM sounds like it should be.
Well, look at the requirements there... The VAST majority of the active people here own vehicles that have zero modifications. So you have basically said you are just plain and can't participate... Maybe if this was CustomBlazerForum.com... But it isn't.
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ORIGINAL: EuroGoldLS
How do we know if someone wasn't mistakenly left OUT of the ROTM (or God forbid discriminated against because he isn't well liked by that member of staff) I know you think I suspect something, but I know on other sites it has happend, and you can never know who to trust and people make mistakes. Thats just my view of the matter...
I'm entirely sure that this has been pondered by staff before the decision was made. Also, everyone should know by now that staff doesnt really discriminate and are easy to get along with. If you do something bad enough to make staff dislike you, odds are your account is banned and you are not elligible anyway.
The randomization algorithm is set when the date for the randomization method is picked at random by the first member to reply with said date. The list for randomization is made in order of nominations. There is no way to fix the outcome and every one can check the results of the randomization themselves.
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The first month I was nominated I was pumped, then I didn't make the randomization...
Worked out ok though because it gave me time to get new tires for this month's contest
Is there any sytem in place so someone doesn't get the short stick and lose in the randomization step each month? Something like if you're nominated 5 months in a row or something long, but never actually make it, you're in on the 6th?
No, there is no such system in place. If it were to start to happen frequently, then we may have to consider that.
As far as ROTY or MS, beyond the poll (which is still open) on the MS, nothing more has been done. Up until recently, we didn't know how to have more than 10 poll options, LOL. Between answering posts here, cleaning up things, work, kids, etc, I haven't had the time to work on any ROTY stuff. Shoot me, excommunicate me, do whatever you'd like.
I'd much rather get rid of ride of the month all together. If we wanted to show appreciation to those members that go out of their way to help, a member spot light could be done. Atleast that encourages participation.
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