Bravo awards and recognition...Moderators Please Read

[OceanicCorals-Ian-]

The concept of the idea is to award and recognize the person who is most helpful based on votes by peers and members. If I did it and assigned the award, it could seem biased and preferential. By having the votes cast by members, I remain neutral and unbiased and the award to presented to someone that most deserves it.

I hope that this idea will not end up with people helping people for the sake of gaining something in return from us. Even if it does end up that way, I don't see the harm in adding a bit of an incentive for members to help fellow members. There are other members who do not do it for incentives but rather to just help a fellow reefer come one step closer to succeeding in keeping fish and corals. All too many times, these go unnoticed and I would like to publicly applaud these people as they deserve recognition for their time and knowledge.

So to clarify, the award is to be given to the person with the most amount of votes or stars in each given month. The votes/stars are appointed by anyone who thinks that that member should be recognized for.

For example:

If reefer A helps reefer B then reefer B can vote as well as reefers CDEFG etc... At the end of the month, the person who has obtained the most amount of stars will be given the credit. Everyone and anyone can vote but only once to a member. You cannot repeatedly cast a vote to member. Only one vote per person for that person.

I hope this concept makes sense?

I welcome anyone else's with ideas as well.

The bottom line is, that I think we shoulld acknowledge a fellow members who take time in lending a hand, experience or advice to a fellow reefer. We all have busy lives and some of us take extra time out to help someone. They need to be applauded.

thanks,

Ian.

[Ian]

WOW...amazing offer by you Ian...this is a great idea and i hope that it can be refined into a working plan.....hats off to you Ian for putting this forward....my vote is that the newb that shares your name gets the 1st months award.....but I'm a tad biased

[fdiddy]

We have a system like this on another forum in which I participate. It's called Karma, every time you help someone they can give you karma if they so wish. No rewards though.

[Leah]

I liked the customer rating idea much better LOL

[Myka]

Great idea! I think even if people do help out just in hopes of gaining a store credit is still good because hey they're helping out, and that's good no matter what, right?

I think this is a good idea to create positive discussions.

[Pan]

Nice idea....still sounds like a marketing ploy though...

[hillegom]

I do not see this as a marketing ploy, he asked other sponsers to contribute as well. I think post #1
And personally I think it is a good idea. I have gotten a lot of advice/knowledge from this site. I would not be able to get the award, don't have enough knowledge,yet I think its a very good idea. I think it would enable more people to actively give more advice, which is benefical.