[williamssl]

The exalting of Gator over his avs brought up the whole annual "BOOardies" OOver there. But can we / should we have a Pun Board Awards? It could be fun.....

[The Jewish Cunthead]

You could call them the Punnys or name them after the webmaster and myself and call them the Shortys.

[Pun]

We have like 10 people who post regularly. Who's not going to win?

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Lucky won't. He'll finish in 2nd place.

[williamssl]

Doesn't have to be a carbon copy. We can come up w/ our own shit / limit things and customize them to be relevant to the insanity that is here. There's some shit that gets said here that is pretty damn admirable / funny / whatever that I for one would love to see go through a recognition process. If it's just me I'll back off.

[Sparty]

I know I wouldn't win.

[Pun]

Gimmick! Something we finally agree on!

In all seriousness, if you guys want to put something together, feel free to do so.

[Batman]

gimmickman said:

I know I wouldn't win.

Are you kidding? There'd have to be a "Most Snivelling" category.

In fact we should design each category specifically for each regular poster. I'm thinking "snipingest jackass" for me.

[OpTard]

i don't think awards are necessary over here. maybe down the line if the board grows a little more, but as of now i don't think it's needed.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Remember Pun started this back in what, September? Let's see what shakes out before we talk about awards.

Now if you want to start a thread of best line, best post, etc. go for it.

[Lucky]

I hate you, Solly.

No offense to anyone but the idea seems kind of silly. We have a dozen or so active posters and maybe 2 months worth of posts. The BOOardies are a year end award. If we wanted to do it we should talk about it in September '07 or December '07. When we actually have a year of stuff. But as has been said, we'd just be handing out silly titles and awards to everyone here to engage in a little self gratification. And don't we do that enough?

[Batman]

Do we do anything else here?

[Lucky]

We geek out REALLY hard.

[The Canadian Content]

williamssl said:

There's some shit that gets said here that is pretty damn admirable / funny / whatever that I for one would love to see go through a recognition process. If it's just me I'll back off.

Isn't that what the exalt button's (sparingly) used for?

[Batman]

psychofish said:

Isn't that what the exalt button's (sparingly) used for?

Not that you or I would know....


(Or Solly! Damn!)

[Batman]

Oh, and:

luckylopez said:

We geek out REALLY hard.

That's for damn sure. If we were to have awards there'd be a hell of a race for biggest geek.

[williamssl]

In my mind that example alone is reason enough to do something awards-related. The arguments why such-and-such is the biggest geek. The active campaigning for or against the honor. Is someone nominated going to embrace the nomination and campaign for it...or be like "no fucking way am I the BIGGEST geek. Geek yes, but not biggest."

Mucho fun-o.

[Loki]

psychofish said:

williamssl said:

There's some shit that gets said here that is pretty damn admirable / funny / whatever that I for one would love to see go through a recognition process. If it's just me I'll back off.

Isn't that what the exalt button's (sparingly) used for?

I don't think anyone knows how to use the exalt function anymore.

Besides, smiting is so much more fun.

[Lucky]

Tex, I don't think anyone inherrently thinks its a bad idea. And yeah, we'd do some stuff that wouldn't happen at OO and wouldn't fit. We have developed SOME unique identity and history here. But we're talking about 2 months of it. Handing out awards at 3 months just seems over the top. And considering half of us run around as mods, half of us have our own forums, we all have custom titles and engange in smite/exalt battles... we're sort of doing this already.

Wanna do it in Sept or Dec '07 and I'm game. Doing the best of 3 months seems kinda shallow to me.

[salmonjunkie]

I microplay

[Courtney]

Hey hey, there will be none of that.

[Batman]

williamssl said:

In my mind that example alone is reason enough to do something awards-related. The arguments why such-and-such is the biggest geek. The active campaigning for or against the honor. Is someone nominated going to embrace the nomination and campaign for it...or be like "no fucking way am I the BIGGEST geek. Geek yes, but not biggest."

Mucho fun-o.

I agree that would be fun, but I don't think a "Pun Awards" would be needed. Just start a "Who do you think is the biggest geek?" (or "jerk" or whatever) thread. Same fun, and it doesn't matter that you weren't able to convince people about awards--you can do it unilaterally.

I 'm thinking "Smite Talk" would be the place for it.

[williamssl]

Backing off the awards thing for now from a "infancy of these boards" perspective. Fair argument

However...

fsolomon75 said:

Now if you want to start a thread of best line, best post, etc. go for it.

...what about a "post of the week (or month)" recurring thing...

[Lucky]

I don't see any harm in that. I think its self gratification but that's all over the board. If people actually were interested it and it got play I'd suggest tagging a reward on it. Say 5 karma points. That way people on this board could actually have positive karma.

[Pun]

OK, no offense to you all, but with the kid and work, I don't have time to read all of the board all the time. If you guys want to start something like that, go ahead, but I won't be able to contribute much.