Forum awards

[falkpl]

I figured that Ben was using the award as a way to launder money from "princess" to his own pocket (I've had a couple nice meals in Pittsburgh for $50, or a beer and dog at the steeler game).

To make it fair we could have several catagories and a rule that noone can win more than one award in a given year.  We could also have a 'new coder on the block award' for new members to the community.  With enough catagories (lets not get carried away) there will be more than one winner.

After several wins (you know who you are) - a lifetime achievement can be given and then you dont wont have to keep making room on your virtual trophie case).

Any suggestions for catagories.

PS- I was not serious about the spagetti code (even though I was a lock for this award).

Once we have the catagories, we can see if we can setup up a page/post for each nomination and the top vote getter wins-one vote per user just like the kudos).  We could plan on nominations in April-May and voting opened from June-NI week, Winner will be posted during NI week if we can pull this off.

We will have to see if this is ok with the ni community moderator.

[Harold_Timmis]

How about an award like:

The Helping Hand Award - this award is for someone who has helped all year long.

Rube award lol j/k

 ........hmmm I thought I would have more ideas about this, but at this moment I am drawing blank.

[johnsold]

I like Harold's suggestion for a name: The Helping Hand Award.

Lynn 

[Ben]

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johnsold wrote:

I like Harold's suggestion for a name: The Helping Hand Award.

Lynn 

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Same here but maybe not for the same reasons. In the movie Labrynth with David Bowie, there were "Helping Hands" that caught the protagonist as she was falling and asked her "Do you want Up or Down?" She replied questioningly, "Down?" and the Helping Hands replied "She said down." and promptly dropped her. Sorta reminds me of us when a questioner implies they don't need us "He said DONE! Next Q"

Ben

[Harold_Timmis]

Well I would definitely hope that that's not what the award would be given out for (what Ben said) LOL

[Laura F.]

So I can help with this effort from a statistics point of view.  I now have some better reports at my disposal and we could run a monthly contest for different metrics.  For example, one month the award could go to the user that has the most number of accepted solutions per post (for just that month).  I think if we change the metrics and keep each one time bound we will see a variety of users get the award.  I think I can find awards to give out.  It would be different than the mug that I send out for people reaching the 2,000 posts mark.  (Ian Fung should be seeing one soon!).

However, I don't want to overstep - if you want this to be strictly a community driven contest that's fine as well.  

Just let me know if I can help in any way!

Thanks,

Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments

[JÞB]

I love the Idea of time-bound metrics.  Especially if they are by board.  kudos per post (Idea exchange) and kudos per post (Multifunction Daq) would not be comparable metrics.  simmilarly replys per post (Breakpoint) is not comparable to Replys per post (TestStand).  Breaking the metrics out by board may also help foster growth in some of the less active communities.

Still- a lot must be said for community interaction.  It is our forum after all, so I would have to support a combination approach with stats as a nomination process to participant voting.

[ian_fung]

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Laura F. wrote:

So I can help with this effort from a statistics point of view.  I now have some better reports at my disposal and we could run a monthly contest for different metrics.  For example, one month the award could go to the user that has the most number of accepted solutions per post (for just that month).  I think if we change the metrics and keep each one time bound we will see a variety of users get the award.  I think I can find awards to give out.  It would be different than the mug that I send out for people reaching the 2,000 posts mark.  (Ian Fung should be seeing one soon!).

However, I don't want to overstep - if you want this to be strictly a community driven contest that's fine as well.  

Just let me know if I can help in any way!

Thanks,

Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments

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Hi Laura

That wakes me up in the, still blue, Tuesday morning in Singapore!

Thanks! And, anticipating... 

[JeffBuckles]

A Rube award could work provided that any candidates for the award must nominate their _own_ code....

[falkpl]

Laura, your help would be greatly appreciated.

I would like to to see a special thread for each catagory (we should decide soon about the catagories).  When a nomination has been added, each person can vote for one (or none) entry per catagory, this way each forum member has only one vote per catagory, much more democratic than the 'American Idol' voting system.  I guess if we are going to maje this all happen we need to decide on the catagories soon.

The winner of each catagory is the nominee with the highest votes, and maybe we can limit the winner to only one catagory (there are a few members who could sweep the honors otherwise). 

-  We have the possible folowing catagories

1.  Helping hand -  member who has provided the most useful answers over the past year.

2.  Rookie of the year - a special award for new members (a memeber who joined in the last 2 years with the bigest impact on the community)

3.  Idea/nugget award-  award for a nuget or idea that has the bigest impact on how you develop in labview (posetd in the last year.

4.  Subcatagories - daq, hardware ....

These catagories are completly opened to modification and input.