Mr Troll: COMPREHENSIVE REPORT OF THE END OF YEAR RELIGIOUS SECTION AWARDS ORGANIZNG PANEL

Without having to say much nonsense by way of protocol, I’d like to go straight to the point…

This organization panel was formed with the help of striklymi and we were given the mandate of organizing how this year’s award was going to look like with the following options in mind:

What award(s) is to be given this year?

How to nominate

Who has a right to nominate

When to nominate

How to vote

Who has a right to vote

When to vote

Rules and what if anything, the winner(s) get.


The panel members decided to open a thread for the deliberations and each decision was subjected to a vote in which 4 votes were needed in order to carry a motion. The final deliberations are as follows…


1) What award(s) is/are to be given this year?

5 Awards were decided:

A - Best poster for the year
B- Best christian poster
C - Best Non-christian religious poster
D - Best thread
E - Best Irreligious poster


2) How to nominate

- Each member can nominate 2 people.
- Only active members registered before 01/10/2013 can be nominated.
- A member can nominate him/herself if he/she meets the appropriate criterion for nomination as stated above
- The 3 nominees with the highest number of nominations will be now stand to be voted for.


3) Who can nominate

Everybody can nominate on condition that they already made at least 30 posts in the religious section. This is excluding folks with known duplicate monikers. For example, Alfa Seltzer is allowed to nominate but all his other ‘Alfa bots’ are not allowed to nominate.

4) When to nominate

Nominations to take place for 5 days from 1st December to 5th December 2013.

5) How to vote

Only one thread to be used for voting in which the 5 categories will be listed. Each voter will state the category and then vote on the moniker that is up for vote.

6) Who has a right to vote

Only those registered before 01/10/2013 that have spent more than 1 day online and have made at least 30 posts on the nairaland religious section.

7) When to vote.

10-15th December 2013(inclusive) for voting.

8.) Rules and what if anything, the winner(s) get.

Each category winner gets one thread on the FP while the overall winner gets a thread stickied for one month


Pls note that option 8 is subject to the agreement of the religious section MODs. Also, if the MODs do agree to the suggestion, the winners will have to come up with threads that are worthy of making FP which will still have to be scrutinized by the MODs. On the other hand, if the FP option is not feasible as decided by the MODs then I personally suggest we make an E-plaque for the various winners.

ATMC: ishilove-my choice

Elantracey: Atmc

striktlymi:

Ishilove we await your nominee.

Ishilove:
I nomainate striktlymi

Ihedinobi: I actually have no favorite, Stricktly. And I'm not sure we can do this effectively without a leader. Perhaps we should just take a vote assuming everyone except yourself (don't quite get how you're not eligible) as candidates. Failing a clear result from that, you, being the convener, can appoint anyone of your own discretion.

My contribution on the other matters later.

striktlymi:

Striktlymi is not eligible.

Ishilove:
Nbet why??

Elantracey: Strictlymi ah tink u should just elect a leader urself

ATMC: I vote ATMC

striktlymi:




Okay let ATMC be the Team lead. At least she now has two votes.

ATMC: ok, at your service.

striktlymi:

Thanks!

striktlymi: Like I have mentioned before, I believe the work is greatest in the two earlier mentioned items. My suggestion which is subject to the ratification of every member here are:

ITEM 1D

1) We set the criteria for selecting threads which we believe can compete for the thread of the year award. The criteria should be all inclusive and such that they are not geared towards favouring any particular group. For example, some of the criteria for selecting a thread may include:

a) Societal relevance.
b) Content.
c) FP appeal.
d) When the thread was opened. It must have been created in the year under consideration i.e 2013
e) Etc.

2) Create a thread where everyone in the section is free to suggest any thread they think might meet the set criteria. Members are also allowed to help find such threads. Each thread is reviewed by us daily and we select threads for nomination based on the set criteria.

3) The selected threads, which may be upto 10, as the case may be are put up for nomination by members where the top 3 nominated threads get to be voted on during the election in order to arrive at the thread of the year.

ATMC: by front page appeal, you mean? what about a thread dt was created in 2012 but had a good content, of societal relevance but made front page in 2013? will such thread be disqualified cos of 'd'

ATMC:
OK.

striktlymi:




Okay let ATMC be the Team lead. At least she now has two votes.

ATMC: considering that the award is with respect to 2013, let's go with 2013 threads.

ATMC:
There are some respectable religion section regulars too who can help with the thread selection so may be they can work with the neutral party.

Hi Mukina,

I am not sure if you are aware just yet but we (members of the Religion section) have begun the process for electing worthy members who we believe deserve to be honoured for their contributions in the section during the year.

In order to ensure a hitch-free election, we decided to set-up a panel (https://www.nairaland.com/1479178/end-year-awards-organisation-thread) who were saddled with the responsibility of preparing the ground work and come up with something close to a blueprint for this year's election.

In the course of their work, they came up with an 8 'point agenda' or rule if you like: (https://www.nairaland.com/1479178/end-year-awards-organisation-thread/12#19254720) which in my view are fair and good enough.

Of particular interest should be the 8th item which talks about rewarding the winners with at least something. After much thought it was suggested that the winners be rewarded with a FP appearance of one of their threads which is deemed to be FP worthy.

I am not sure how achievable that objective (item is, given the fact that a winner or two might just turn out to be Atheist or Pagan but I am confident that with your help we can work something out.

Presently, a phase 2 panel (https://www.nairaland.com/1506209/end-year-awards-organisation-thread) has been set up to implement the recommendations from the Phase 1 panel; but implementing the recommnendations (especially item would be very difficult, if not impossible, without your assitance.

I am asking that you give us a guideline on what it will take to get a thread to the FP, such that, if an Atheist or a Pagan happens to emerge as one of the winners it won't be too demanding to have the selected threads make FP.

This is a difficult request I ask from you but please we really need your help.

Thanks!

PS: This e-mail will be made public in the section for disclosure purposes as I am not alone on this.