Who else thinks we should have one like craigslist

I LOVE the idea, Chuck!

I am not familiar with the CL version. How would you see it working here?

M

Here is a good example for one from Elvis

"I see one of the other BMX forums has sprung a leak.

Greetings stranger! Welcome to our shores!

I realize you speak not our language, having just washed up here on the beach (and reeking of kelp, I might add) but that's fine! All is well! We will feed you and clothe you, and in exchange you will work for us at whatever task we require ("The toilet is flushed, sir.")

If you displease us (and likely you will, they all do) you'll be sent to work in the mines, probably as a roof timber.

But here now! Why the long face? Why, as roof timber there's plenty of room for someone like you to move up! Why, within just a few years you may find yourself on the end of a pickax; there's good fellow. Think of it! A pickax! You! Industry!

There's a good chap! Chin up now!

Here, here's a good fellow, here, there's a good chap, here's a nice shiny quarter for you. That's right, a quarter! Coin of the realm and all that! Here! There you go.

Now, entertain us. Do a merry little dance for us; there's a good lad."


I think they should be nominated by the community then reviewed by the Mods.

If one of the mods has been nominated than pick an alternate to vote

The post could be the first in a topic or any one of the replys, maybe even the topic title itself.

Then just post them on a new board Titled "VBMX The Bost Of" the good, bad, stupid, & funny.

I just wouldn't allow the ability to post replys.

Maybe before Rockford the mods could pick 5 and have a poll to choose #1 and give an award for it at the banquet.

Just my 2c

Huzzah!

We were talking about something like this at Rockford this year (so many people said "My (insert thread here) has X,000 responses... you should offer a Topic on Fire type award for that kind of thing."

This formalizes how to do it, and I love it!

Now, to figure out the technology that will make it happen. I'll get on that this week.

Thanks for puttin the thinking cap on to make this a better place!

Best,

M

6 votes, that's it!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on vote people

I know the thread I want moved into the Best Of...

(can you say rAtBoNeS?)

Well, at this point the votes are simply a formality. WE'RE DOING THIS!

M

Mike, if I can help ya out with it in any way let me know

So this will be entire threads? Or single posts? Or both?

What about preserving any pictures in the threads? Is it possible to archieve a scrollable "copy" of a thread? This would preserve the pictures that may have been posted and since removed.

Did that make sense?

Good questions I would say (going out on a limb here) that topic titles, and individual posts would be best. Whole threads, maybe that should just be a standing atta boy for the longest running, but I guess that might work as well. There are some pretty funny ones out there that don't have as many posts as the Miini-SO-tah thread. As far as preserving the pics' I am too computer technology challanged to answer that one

Yo Tom,

Thanks for ringing in here. Answers, in order or appearance:

Threads, I think, is the best way to approach it (both technologically, and from a community management POV). A full thread is, to me, a "body of work" on the part of the community, and as such is where the true value lies to VBMX as a whole. Naturally, every person posting to that thread can't get an award, but the topic starter gets the props for thinking and acting on behalf of the community.

Regarding best of voting on specific POSTS...Not so sure...we get SO many posts it would be really tough to get enough critical mass for votes to mean anything. (you could end up with a few dozen posts that have, say, five "best of" votes, and 200 that have four, 1200 that have three, etc). If the goal is to award the best of the best, we need the ability to "bracket down" to a set of winners within a month or so leading up to Rockford (whether a "winner" ultimately means the Top vote-getter in each of our categories, or the top 5 overall, or some combo thereof is still up for discussion). Also, with so many posts, you will probably end up with a few thousand best ofs per year. That is more action than some BOARDS get in a year.

The preserving pictures thing is a great idea as well, especially since most of our images are hosted off-site. I guess there would be a way to have a script go through and regularly "crawl" every thread on the board and write a PDF of the thread to an archive. As we stand here today, that capability is kind of "science fiction" (the means to do it does not exist in the current software, but the technology is definitely there for us to do it outside the confines of the software). Of course, the STORAGE demands required by such a feature might make it cost prohibitive, but it is definitely worth a looksee.

Best,

M

90.91% to 9.09% looks like the poeple have spoken anyway Mike

Man I wonder what either Presidential canidate would pay for poll numbers like that

I say yes

In all seriousness, let's just put Cheez in charge of this. In time we can morph command and control functions, but for now *laterals ball*

Best of, right here: