Member of the Month Rule Thread

[Maikeru D. Shinigami]

^No ill will was intended in the slightest. I was just saying my piece for Luna. It was not meant to be any sort of attack, just an explanation.

[Throw Rasen-Shuriken]

Originally Posted by Ninja Pink

What she said.^_^
Calm down guys. It's only MotM.

I'm quite calm, though when people start making accusations as to how I am, when I haven't personally attacked anyone, individually, myself, just mentioned on how I saw this, then I refuse to be misunderstood..
I've never said anything about if the winner did or did not deserve it or anything, on those lines.
Though one thing, on someone elses theory I spoke to, was true in this case, pre-determined.. That's how this came over.

[Vornmusion]

Originally Posted by Wooster

Don't mock the brilliance of Vorn!~

Gold and red for the win!

Originally Posted by Maikeru D. Shinigami

You're right. Regardless of how the votes went, Luna was basically going to win. It was destined. It's not because the people on the Council don't listen to you though. Granted, I will say that there have been times when a mod or two has basically not given a crap about what users say. I voted for Luna. I nominated Luna. This is not something I say very often, but I took her history and overall likability into account when voting. You could look at it as corrupt, but if we wanted to be legit, a lot of the members of certain months would be members that have already won before. No one wants that though because it would mean having a repeating and pointless winner regardless of how much they've done. This is my first time not giving a vote to the majority winner, but it's not because I dislike you or Wishful. I just felt that Luna has had this award coming to her for a long time. Now that she has received this award though, my viewpoint sways back into seeing the opinions of the majority. You were all good candidates. I was just behind Luna the entire time.

Catering to past achievements because people would win numerous times otherwise means the rest of the population needs to step up to meet the standards set; not you lowering the systems standards to keep it relevant. Not that it makes any difference now since some individuals decided to give themselves, and others, custom avatars, thereby removing the esteem of the main reward of MotM and rendering it worthless.

That the entire point of MotM has eluded the the majority of the people involved, and some not, is staggering. Piece by piece the philosophy behind the system has been stripped away; you ought to just give a random person an avatar every month for all MotM has to actually do with its own point for existing. And I won't even get into the fact that MotM by its very definition isn't supposed to be retroactive.

[Maikeru D. Shinigami]

Originally Posted by Vornmusion

Catering to past achievements because people would win numerous times otherwise means the rest of the population needs to step up to meet the standards set; not you lowering the systems standards to keep it relevant. Not that it makes any difference now since some individuals decided to give themselves, and others, custom avatars, thereby removing the esteem of the main reward of MotM and rendering it worthless.

That the entire point of MotM has eluded the the majority of the people involved, and some not, is staggering. Piece by piece the philosophy behind the system has been stripped away; you ought to just give a random person an avatar every month for all MotM has to actually do with its own point for existing. And I won't even get into the fact that MotM by its very definition isn't supposed to be retroactive.

You are absolutely, 100% right. I do still stand firmly behind choosing Luna this month. She does still do many things behind the scenes as well as on the forum itself. Making things retroactive though should still be discouraged really. I'd like to actually start making it possible to have some repeat winners sometimes. I mean honestly, I sometimes feel like all the possible rewards I could use for contests are hogged by MotM and the fact that so many people don't want a repeat winner kind of hurts any reward I would want to give to someone in another contest.

We reached a point a while back where the best candidates tended to be people who had won already. While I honestly understand the mindset of wanting to not have someone win more than once so more people can get the recognition, it really seems like getting out of that mindset would allow contests to be made that allow awards such as these to be won in different ways.

[Wooster]

Aww, this thread brings back so many memories. Nomibot is my greatest creation. Too bad people screwed up it's name with an acronym Used to be maximum characters.

[Jakropha]

I remember when you made him too

We all knew it was you, or Teebs, but then we found out it was you

[Ninja Pink]

Originally Posted by Throw Rasen-Shuriken

I'm quite calm, though when people start making accusations as to how I am, when I haven't personally attacked anyone, individually, myself, just mentioned on how I saw this, then I refuse to be misunderstood..
I've never said anything about if the winner did or did not deserve it or anything, on those lines.
Though one thing, on someone elses theory I spoke to, was true in this case, pre-determined.. That's how this came over.

Yeah, all you did is say your opinion.

Personally I would be happy for anyone who won. People are very serious about these things I guess ._.

[Wooster]

Originally Posted by Jakropha

I remember when you made him too

We all knew it was you, or Teebs, but then we found out it was you

Actually it wasn't me(at least most of the time), I just said stuff with my own account.
But I was the Nomibot creator.

[Vornmusion]

Nomitbot was fun to mess around with.

[Wooster]

It was.
But the true nomibot shall never be revealed!

[Schnarf]

Originally Posted by Jakropha

Schnarf, why don't we talk anymore D:

I FREAKING LOVE YOU!

Who are you again?

[Noctis Arashi]

I don't think you guys should be spamming up this thread with off-topic posts. *nods*

[Bacon]

Originally Posted by Wooster

It was.
But the true nomibot shall never be revealed!

It was kreegah most of the time

[Izi90]

Interesting! Sounds fun xD This forum gets awesomer andd awesomerrr lmao!

[Anru Uzumaki]

Can the winner have that Custom avatar only for a Month or forever?

[Jakropha]

^Forever, unless you abuse the privilege :Lol:

[Anru Uzumaki]

Originally Posted by Jakropha

^Forever, unless you abuse the privilege :Lol:

and the other features

[Shikamaru Nara]

Well, I think it might have been changed a little bit since I won MotM, but these are the awards that I got:

Custom Avatar - Forever
MotM Badge - Optional. Forever.
See who repped you - One month
Username color - One month
Edit your custom title - One month
See who is invisible - One month

[InnerSakura]

I nominate Gaara-Shukaku as Motm.

There is many reasons why he should get the title. Everyone who has spoke to him knows he is awesome. Every thread he has ever made is interesting and hilarius. He is fair to everyone on the site, and even if he hasnt been on the forum for a long period of time, he has became very popular around here in the short amount of time he has been here. Please take my nominee into consideration. He deserves it. He really does.

[Naruto321]

Originally Posted by InnerSakura

I nominate Gaara-Shukaku as Motm.

There is many reasons why he should get the title. Everyone who has spoke to him knows he is awesome. Every thread he has ever made is interesting and hilarius. He is fair to everyone on the site, and even if he hasnt been on the forum for a long period of time, he has became very popular around here in the short amount of time he has been here. Please take my nominee into consideration. He deserves it. He really does.

You nominate here: http://naruto.viz.com/forum/misc.php?do=form&fid=5