It was supposed to be fun, but instead was just chock-full of people showing ONLY for a prize and being p!ssy if they lost and then never showing up again...
Maybe if done again it should be for members who were/are rather active right up until the contest was/is even announced...
This has been brought up several times from people and I agree that we had a few certain individuals who fall into that category however this is blown out of proportion.
This suggestion is too elitist for my tastes. You're either a member of the forum or you're not. I don't treat somebody with 20 posts any different than somebody with 20,000. We already have a exclusive club called the Officer Club that anybody can join if they wish and if you do, you get to participate in the other contests.
So the contest would have about 12 contestants? :trollface:
This^^
We were fortunate to have 30 entries to the Contest which was outstanding. The 12 member thing is a long running joke and we all have fun with it but looking back, several of the "12 members" didn't participate and several openly said that they wouldn't even want to. The purpose of this public contest was to get a wider participation then just the 5-10 we have for our Officer Contests.
Looking at the Final 8:
Darkwynter: Regular contributor and Officer
Major Blood: Admin
Jrsmi6: Been around for almost 2 yrs with 200 posts
nath 1977: Newcomer to the site
Dropshipbob: Regular Contributor to the site
Eddie: Founder/Officer with the highest post count
Med: Staff/Officer
Numbers: Low post count but visits the site multiple times a week
That's the final 8. 6 maybe 7 of the 8 are "one of us" or if you want to be conservative, you can say 5 of 8. All this nonsense and crying about how people are affecting the votes and this person hinted at that and said this. If you twist this word that way and carry the 1 over here and read this post on another site and blah blah blah.
Just looking at factual information, it came out pretty good. For as many accusations that were going on about the voting, we had just as many other people voting the other way in spite... so it was a wash.
Now the whole thing about people not reading the rules, links and info. I don't even want to get started in on that