[King Gizzard]

Greg are you going to slip any words into the countdown this year

like otter and recycling

[Shaun]

i request "tourniquet" and "jizzfiend"

[Z]

Tourniquet and jizzfiend, duly noted

[King Gizzard]

and at least 6 choruses of Sugababes songs in there somewhere but not noticeable to the untrained eye

[Z]

Challenge accepted.

[Z]

I've come up with a better system for Round 1 that I'll be implementing for ML#9 at the end of the year.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Zee

I've come up with a better system for Round 1 that I'll be implementing for ML#9 at the end of the year.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Zee

I've come up with a better system for Round 1 that I'll be implementing for ML#9 at the end of the year.

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

[Z]

Originally Posted by Livia

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

[Shaun]

is it asking everyone to travel to Slippery Rock, to take part in a canoe slalom?

[Z]

Originally Posted by Shaun

is it asking everyone to travel to Slippery Rock, to take part in a canoe slalom?

ffs spoilers!!!

[Marc]

please use the word 'outrageous' in sooty's paragraph

[Livia]

Please use 'Lazy' and 'Dirty' in Marc's paragraph...

[Kizzy]

Please use the words hysterical and bleeding heart in my paragraph.

[Z]

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.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Zee

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.

Aren't alot of people guilty of this indirectly though , like vote for so and so they so deserve it, they need to be in the top 50 etc, all fair's in love and war I say, as only three noms were needed to get in, I hold my hands up to wanting Chuff in the final 50!

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Zee

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.

That sounds really good Zee and anyway as long as you are happy with whatever format you choose then that is all that matters.

[Shaun]

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

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Shaun

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

Oh dammit... sorry Shaun x

[Marc]

The new rule will probably result in so many more points as well

[Z]

If 6th place received 10 points, they would leapfrog into 2nd.

[Z]

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'.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Zee

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'.

I love a stir.

[Marc]

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

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Marc

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

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.