I hereby proclaim -Mephisto's Lament- the Favorite User of 2008! Congratulations! I'll be PMing you in a bit about your custom title and will start the trophy thread in a little bit for the first trophy to be in it. Thanks to everyone who competed!
Our other runner-ups:
Second place: Dauroth (12)
Third Place: Killer-Swift (9)
I'm closing the posting portion of this poll right now, a few hours before the actual poll will lock. You can still submit your votes until 05-01-2009 at 05:49 PM. I'm closing the responses because I'll be gone until late tomorrow and won't be able to control this thread for a little. Updates and stuff will come late tomorrow, and I'll be starting the trophies thread as well as some new competitions soon.
Thanks in advance to everyone that has participated, will participate, and will continue to participate in future competitions
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, and the only word there spoken was the whispered word, 'Dauroth!"
Then the bird said, "Nevermore."
Wait...I have 4 votes?!?! Who voted for me?!?! Lets go look!
Additionally, you may have more votes than are listed in the actual poll because of the recent mess. Please check the bottom of the first post for details.
I have reconsidered and made the final decision! I'll give my vote to naj! He deserves it! :thumbsup:
Adding- one moment
Fair enough. Also, you are in the lead. Read the edited first post of the thread.
No, Mephy is in first. I edited in the additional points in the poll. I just have that stuff there for notes in case anyone tries to be sneaky. Once the poll closes I'm going to do some double-checking to make sure everything matches up (like checking IP's in case multi-accounting happened again and making sure everyone only voted once) and then the winner will be announced.
Quite right there! They are almost omnipotent!
Yep- better watch out
Blackwing had a link to this thread in his signature, inviting everyone to vote for him, and Magistrate said it was okay! So I guess it's okay!
Reconsidering this for next year or any other polls like this I run.
I was considering that, but after all the nomination messes, all the PM's I had to keep sending and re-sending because people kept retracting votes, agh...
Eh, well, I guess I'll just do it. Sometimes it just takes one person to say something to make it seem more logical
Anyway-
Wait, I think people who voted for Blackwing can revote! If you look at the poll, all the usernames are gone that voted for him! Can someone confirm this that voted for him, please?
Blackwing has been officially disqualified. -Mephisto's Lament-'s vote total is being reduced by three to compensate for the three illegitimate votes. Any further discussion on this incident in here will result in post deletions.
So does that mean no potential favorite staff member polls? :confused:
This year? I won't be making it, probably. If someone else wants to, I have nothing against that. I'll probably do a separate one next year, though, since there's so much interest in it. We're already gaining on the 6th month of 2009, so the new year isn't really that far away
Not really sure what you'd award a staff member, though. For me, personally, just winning would feel cool enough, but, meh. I wish we had a hall of trophies or something- could just update it with who wins competitions like this on the site.
Anyone can vote for anyone for the wrong reasons (plus, who decides what reasons to be wrong/right?)
I do.
Blackwing: I think that might be a tad bit excessive for what this is supposed to be.
@ some other people: The reason I did not want staff involved was because I didn't want it to be a suck-up spree or a trolling/flaming spree on the staff, which could give definitive advantages/disadvantages to all involved. I made that rule via the nominations thread before I was a moderator.
they already posess the custom title, which kind of defeats the purpose of competition..
The only reason a custom title is the award this year is because there wasn't anything else I could think of right now. I'm hoping next year I'll have some better way of awarding the winner, as well as awards for second and third place.
-Mephisto's Lament- : 12
Dauroth: 12
Since -Mephisto's Lamnet- had more votes in the nominations competition than Dauroth:
I hereby proclaim -Mephisto's Lament- the Favorite User of 2008! Congratulations! I'll be PMing you in a bit about your custom title and will start the trophy thread in a little bit for the first trophy to be in it. Thanks to everyone who competed!
Our other runner-ups:
Second place: Dauroth (12)
Third Place: Killer-Swift (9)
Thanks in advance to everyone that has participated, will participate, and will continue to participate in future competitions
~Magistrate
Then the bird said, "Nevermore."
Additionally, you may have more votes than are listed in the actual poll because of the recent mess. Please check the bottom of the first post for details.
Adding- one moment
No, Mephy is in first. I edited in the additional points in the poll. I just have that stuff there for notes in case anyone tries to be sneaky. Once the poll closes I'm going to do some double-checking to make sure everything matches up (like checking IP's in case multi-accounting happened again and making sure everyone only voted once) and then the winner will be announced.
Yep- better watch out
Reconsidering this for next year or any other polls like this I run.
Taking care of it as I post this.
Note added to first post and poll edited.
Edit~
Well, I guess since you're not saying anything, you wouldn't like to revote? Issue resolved.
Eh, well, I guess I'll just do it. Sometimes it just takes one person to say something to make it seem more logical
Anyway-
Wait, I think people who voted for Blackwing can revote! If you look at the poll, all the usernames are gone that voted for him! Can someone confirm this that voted for him, please?
This year? I won't be making it, probably. If someone else wants to, I have nothing against that. I'll probably do a separate one next year, though, since there's so much interest in it. We're already gaining on the 6th month of 2009, so the new year isn't really that far away
Not really sure what you'd award a staff member, though. For me, personally, just winning would feel cool enough, but, meh. I wish we had a hall of trophies or something- could just update it with who wins competitions like this on the site.
I do.
Blackwing: I think that might be a tad bit excessive for what this is supposed to be.
@ some other people: The reason I did not want staff involved was because I didn't want it to be a suck-up spree or a trolling/flaming spree on the staff, which could give definitive advantages/disadvantages to all involved. I made that rule via the nominations thread before I was a moderator.
The only reason a custom title is the award this year is because there wasn't anything else I could think of right now. I'm hoping next year I'll have some better way of awarding the winner, as well as awards for second and third place.