Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 6032968)

..what time on Thursday, Zee..?..

Originally Posted by Zee (Post 6032958)

After how fast Round 1 went this year, it's just time for a change. I've decided that next time around, Round 1 will be open for a week, and then Round 2 will be open for a week. Round 1, the users with the most nominations will make up the top 50. For example, say 43 users receive 4 or more nominations, and then 18 users have 3 nominations at the end of Round 1, there are obviously 7 spots left to fill and 18 users all eligible. Then I would go to the first come first served rule and the first 7 users to have gained 3 sets of nominations would take the spots, though obviously there's still scope for more than 50 to qualify if someone gave more than one user their third nomination and they had the deciding nomination.

This way is much fairer. There's still the importance of getting your nominations in quickly, but it means that people aren't screwed out of participating by virtue of not being voted for quickly enough. Similarly, Round 2 will only be open for a week to speed things up. If you give people 2 weeks to vote, some people will take 2 weeks to vote, and it doesn't need to be open for that long.

I've also been given a heads up regarding other users trying to fix nominations in Round 1. If I had been made aware of this earlier, I would have been able to do something about it, but unfortunately that wasn't the case. Hopefully this new system will go some way in preventing situations like that from happening again. In future, if I can prove that people have been vote fixing or I'm sent evidence of people vote fixing, I'll just void those users' nominations/votes in future. I'll speak about this more in the countdown thread but I'm a bit disappointed more than anything.

Originally Posted by Zee (Post 6032995)

Indirectly, yes, but in this case I've been given a full conversation where someone admits to organising a group of users to vote for certain people just to cause a stir, which is very different from someone saying 'so and so deserves to make it'.

Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 6032963)

can you deduct a point from Livia for using 'who's' when she means 'whose'?

Originally Posted by Marc (Post 6033010)

I nominated sooty because she deserves to make the list for her longevity on here :)

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 6033033)

There are alot of people including Sooty who should make the list for their sheer contribution to the forum, BBFan1991, Girth, Reece should have made it, Mockinator, loads of people. I'm glad Omah and Chuff made it, both contribute loads, even if people don't agree with their views, they make the forum an interesting place.

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 6033047)

I do don't I.... :) hang on, you forgot me there cherie... what you like? ;)

Originally Posted by Livia (Post 6033052)

People vote for who they like, who they get on with and who entertains them. It's not an award for biggest contribution otherwise it'd just be an acknowledgement for whoever makes the most posts.

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 6033056)

Stop picking on Nathan, Livia :nono:

Originally Posted by Zee (Post 6032958)

After how fast Round 1 went this year, it's just time for a change. I've decided that next time around, Round 1 will be open for a week, and then Round 2 will be open for a week. Round 1, the users with the most nominations will make up the top 50. For example, say 43 users receive 4 or more nominations, and then 18 users have 3 nominations at the end of Round 1, there are obviously 7 spots left to fill and 18 users all eligible. Then I would go to the first come first served rule and the first 7 users to have gained 3 sets of nominations would take the spots, though obviously there's still scope for more than 50 to qualify if someone gave more than one user their third nomination and they had the deciding nomination.

This way is much fairer. There's still the importance of getting your nominations in quickly, but it means that people aren't screwed out of participating by virtue of not being voted for quickly enough. Similarly, Round 2 will only be open for a week to speed things up. If you give people 2 weeks to vote, some people will take 2 weeks to vote, and it doesn't need to be open for that long.

I've also been given a heads up regarding other users trying to fix nominations in Round 1. If I had been made aware of this earlier, I would have been able to do something about it, but unfortunately that wasn't the case. Hopefully this new system will go some way in preventing situations like that from happening again. In future, if I can prove that people have been vote fixing or I'm sent evidence of people vote fixing, I'll just void those users' nominations/votes in future. I'll speak about this more in the countdown thread but I'm a bit disappointed more than anything.

Originally Posted by Livia (Post 6032938)

Will you be deducting points from people who's personalities completely change in the run up to ML?

Originally Posted by Jack_ (Post 6033807)

For Most Loved #10 you should do a top 100, being a milestone and all...that's if we could manage to find 100 members of course

Originally Posted by Jack_ (Post 6033807)

For Most Loved #10 you should do a top 100, being a milestone and all...that's if we could manage to find 100 members of course