Awards!

These will probably never be made, but its a concept for those more active on CFC.

NESers:
Note: When I say NESes, I mean those with 5 updates or more.

Beginning NESer: Joined one NES and played from beginning to end.
Intimidate NESer: Joined 5 NESes and played from beginning to end.
Expert NESer: Joined 10 NESes and played from beginning to end.
NESing God: 20 or more NESes from beginning to end.
Alternate Historian: 10 or more 'decent' alternate histories.

Storytellers:

Beginning Storyteller: One story with at least 20 story posts and 1500 views.
Storyteller: 10 stories with at least 20 story posts and 2000 views each.
Advanced Storyteller: 20 stories with at least 40 story posts and 3000 views each.
Author: 30 stories or more with at least 50 story posts and 4000 views each.
Legendary Author: 40 or more stories with 10000 views each OR 10 popular stories
Popular story: A story with more than 15000 views.

Succession Game:

Newbie: One Succession Game played from beginning to end.
Junior: Five Succession Games played from beginning to end.
Decent: Ten Succession Games played from beginning to end.
Senior: 20 or more succession Games played from beginning to end.
Legend: 30 or more Succession Games played from beginning to end.

Longevity:

Newbie: 3 months active.
CFCer: 1 year active.
Junior: 2 years active.
Senior: 3 years active.
Fanatic: 4 years active.
Legend: 5 or more years active.

Gamer:

Newbie: Active in Newbie Question OR Forum Games for 1 month.
Casual: Same as Newbie, but with 3 months.
Easy: 5 game-related threads created, and Casual.
Medium: 10 game-related threads, and Casual.
Gamer: 20 game-related threads, same as Casual, but with 1 year.
Hardcore: Same as Gamer, but 30 threads OR 2 years.
Legendary: 50 threads AND 3 years

Other:

Historian: Ten or more history-related threads with at least 100 posts OR 2000 views.
User of the year: You vote for other users, the one with the most votes is CFC user of the year. (Sorry, moderators and admins don't have more votes.) If there's a tie, those who voted for the non-tied users vote for the tied users. If its still tied, the moderators and administrator vote. (Same amount of votes) If its STILL a tie, they are both users of the year. NOTE: You cannot vote for yourself.
Pervert: Active in babe threads.

Since this is open, obvious elitism this idea doesn't even have a snowman's hope in hell.

I agree that this is just another form of elitism, but I'm also shocked you didn't add HoF players to your list! Blasphemy!

Well these can be awarded by other members, dont expect mod approval

Perhaps something you could have in a sig?

Oops... Forgot HoF and Democracy games...

It is funny and i really think that the underlining motives of people exclaiming-"elitism"-is because they are afraid to feel inept and unwanted if they are not chosen to be the best in whatever category the public have voted for.

Argh, no! We don't want to encourage NESing.

CartesianFart said:

It is funny and i really think that the underlining motives of people exclaiming-"elitism"-is because they are afraid to feel inept and unwanted if they are not chosen to be the best in whatever category the public have voted for.

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I was simply stating a fact. It is not nessecary to troll on about it.

carmen510 said:

Longevity:

Legend: 5 or more years active.

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I've been a legend long before a couple weeks ago!

The space bellow your username is editable for any award you feel you deserve.

It just smells of Elitism. Plus there is already to edit the title so long as you meet the time and post requirements.

We used to have elitism what with only allowing certain titles for number of posts and from what i remember different avatars but i could be wrong on the second count.

We still have that, BCLG.

Chieftain (Minimum Posts: 0)
Warlord (Minimum Posts: 100)
Prince (Minimum Posts: 300)
King (Minimum Posts: 600)
Emperor (Minimum Posts: 1000)
Deity (Minimum Posts: 2000)

I was really happy when I became an "Emperor", and then a "Deity".

The proposed awards often have nothing to do with the Off Topic, and thus fail. The OT is just as much a part of the forum as NESes, storytelling, Democracy games, et al.

By the way, the anti-elitism movement is utterly stupid. Elitism exists and will exist for as long as there is a difference between active and inactive posters - it's a critical part of any forum. The difference is whether or not you allow it to alienate others.

The things that have been done to "remove" elitism from the forum have only crippled the potential for what the forum may be.

I can't belive you haven't mentioned mafia!

CivGeneral said:

It just smells of Elitism. Plus there is already to edit the title so long as you meet the time and post requirements.

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Elitism rules!

Mirc said:

We still have that, BCLG.

Chieftain (Minimum Posts: 0)
Warlord (Minimum Posts: 100)
Prince (Minimum Posts: 300)
King (Minimum Posts: 600)
Emperor (Minimum Posts: 1000)
Deity (Minimum Posts: 2000)

I was really happy when I became an "Emperor", and then a "Deity".

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Yeah, but 2000 posts is diddly squat. The should scale it back up so it actually means something.

Swedishguy said:

I can't belive you haven't mentioned mafia!

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Mafia is lame (but forum games awards could be done too)

Perfection said:

Elitism rules!

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Is this shorthand for "Elitism is against the rules!"?

Perfection said:

Yeah, but 2000 posts is diddly squat.

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So your whole CFC posting career is only worth 15 diddly squats?

Not for or against the idea, but such award titles exist on many fora without any problem

superslug said:

Is this shorthand for "Elitism is against the rules!"?

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I think so, but Perf does not want to admit to that .

Is this shorthand for "Elitism is against the rules!"?

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Starting personal threads is against the rules in the spirit of controlling it. Elitism is not against the rules any moreso than inflation is banned in a country - it's inevitable in a forum as long as there is a difference in the number of posts and activity between one and another. Some people will be more infamous than others, and people will form cliques. It's the human nature of a community.

I'd prefer something akin to the Apolyton Hall of Fame, rather than the awards presented. But banning this just because it "promotes elitism" only prevents a possible good feature from being added. I don't see how something like this would alienate posters.