The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards

[Mr. X]

Originally Posted by jojo

ooh this is fun, some more suggestions..............

1) Most over inflated ego of the year award (male)
2) Flirt of the year award (male and female)
3) Most B******S piece of advice given to a newbie award
4) Person who dug up and re-animated the most old, boring threads we never wanted to see again award
5) Most thinly veiled personal attacks on other members award
6) Most unnecessarily aggressive replies to a thread award

anyone want to open the nominations?

I would have nominate myself for #4 ,...& on multiple counts (Alison would probably second that...& no doubt others. Sorry guys, I was new, what can I say! )

(Quite possibly eligible for #3 too ... the phrase "the blind leading the blind" comes to mind!).

re. the push for votes: patience, we need to get it right! I can think of several folk for "most helpful" -- but fitting folk to categories like King & Queen is hard when you don't necessarily know members' genders (e.g. esp. when female members contribute to the discussion of "duck bills"/pissettes [don't even ask!]).

[Alison]

LOL you should have seen my first posts I got into so much trouble Instant - 50 karma (rep as its now called)

[island_sands]

Originally Posted by Mr. X

re. the push for votes: patience, we need to get it right! I can think of several folk for "most helpful" -- but fitting folk to categories like King & Queen is hard when you don't necessarily know members' genders (e.g. esp. when female members contribute to the discussion of "duck bills"/pissettes [don't even ask!]).

you can check us all out here

[Mr. X]

Originally Posted by island_sands

you can check us all out here

Good looking people intimidate me (especially if they can outdrink me)...I am afraid I won't be posting an image, being a an international man of mystery ...think of an Amish Joseph Merrick.

[island_sands]

Originally Posted by Mr. X

.think of an Amish Joseph Merrick.

elephant man with a horse and cart?

[Mr. X]

Originally Posted by island_sands

elephant man with a horse and cart?

You say that like it's a bad thing.

"I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it. "
- Joe ("The Man with no name" ), A Fist Full of Dollars

[Stephan Whelan]

Time is ticking on this folks - don't forget to get your votes in ASAP!

Send votes to nominations@deeperblue.net

[Stephan Whelan]

The voting will start very soon! We are collating the final few results and all polls will be active by Thursday 12th January 2006 at the latest.

[superhornet59]

why cant certain people be nominated?

[Adrian]

Because we are part of the staff, and therefore it would be considered that we have an unfair advantage over the others by being "insiders".

[superhornet59]

oh, well how do you know if someone is staff? some sites specificaly state "administrator" "moderator" and "regular". i dont see any such thing in DB

[island_sands]

Originally Posted by superhornet59

oh, well how do you know if someone is staff? some sites specificaly state "administrator" "moderator" and "regular". i dont see any such thing in DB

check it out here
http://forums.deeperblue.net/
then scroll down and click on View Forum Leaders
and you'll get this
http://forums.deeperblue.net/showgroups.php

[Stephan Whelan]

Well - the time has come! Nominations have been gathered. Numbers crunched. All for the final set of nominations in each category.

You need to go and vote for you winners now! Head over to the threads below an cast your votes. The person or thread that collects the most votes is the winner (simple isn't it!)

We will be on the lookout for cheating on these polls so don't even bother.

Voting will close at midnight on 31st January 2006. VOTE NOW!!

• Team Leader of the Year
• Mentor of the Year
• Member of the Year
• Funniest Member of the Year
• Funniest Thread of the Year
• Best Thread
• Most Improved Award
• Community Spirit Award
• DeeperBlue.net King
• DeeperBlue.net Queen
• Personality of the year

Details of the prizes for each category will be issues once voting has closed so as not to influence the voting!

[Pastor]

Just out of curiosity, does the starter of the best thread win the prize? And if so, doesn't the inclusion of The Chronicles of a blue water hunter break the rules?
Baah! Humbug! Who called me a miserable @#&%$£?

[Stephan Whelan]

Last day to submit your votes!

You have to midnight GMT to submit your votes!