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by **agentcom** on Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:56 am

I like the medal. Did you just add that or did I miss it when I first saw this topic?

by **grifftron** on Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:59 am

agentcom wrote:I like the medal. Did you just add that or did I miss it when I first saw this topic?

just added it a couple days ago, glad you like it, it needs some editing if it were going to be used, let the pros edit and mess with it, my skills are pretty basic graphic wise

by **SimplyObsessed** on Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:48 am

Not a fan of this idea, we'd have people suggesting all kinds of crazy stuff just to get the medal which wastes everyone's time.

by **chapcrap** on Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:45 pm

SimplyObsessed wrote:Not a fan of this idea, we'd have people suggesting all kinds of crazy stuff just to get the medal which wastes everyone's time.

False.

Suggestions are good and important. If people suggest stupid things, they'll get called on it AND the suggestion won't be implemented. You only get the medal if something is implemented.

by **grifftron** on Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:43 pm

chapcrap wrote:
SimplyObsessed wrote:Not a fan of this idea, we'd have people suggesting all kinds of crazy stuff just to get the medal which wastes everyone's time.

False.

Suggestions are good and important. If people suggest stupid things, they'll get called on it AND the suggestion won't be implemented. You only get the medal if something is implemented.

Thanks chap for clearing that up... hate when people post before reading what the hell is going on :roll:

by **L M S** on Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:06 pm

I suggest we implement this suggestion.

by **grifftron** on Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:24 pm

L M S wrote:I suggest we implement this suggestion.

no that would be my suggestion thank you O:)

by **L M S** on Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:43 pm

I suggested we have suggestions, so there. (my dad can beat up your dad)

by **rapunzel3** on Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:17 am

ya i too will

by **grifftron** on Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:11 am

rapunzel3 wrote:ya i too will

this is not my multi, i swear it

by **L M S** on Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:16 am

grifftron wrote:
rapunzel3 wrote:ya i too will

this is not my multi, i swear it

Is that you again, Stoned Yoda?

by **grifftron** on Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:28 am

Will add a poll soon to see if people are still interested in this suggestion.

In the mean time... Anything anyone would change or add to my idea?

-griff

by **greenoaks** on Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:55 pm

grifftron wrote:Will add a poll soon to see if people are still interested in this suggestion.

In the mean time... Anything anyone would change or add to my idea?

-griff

i would have this as its own medal as it relates to the contributions THIS forum makes to the site, just like Tournaments and Foundry have their own medals to recognise contributions to the site by people in those forums.

by **agentcom** on Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:46 am

greenoaks wrote:One change Agentcom that you could make is to follow the lead of Tournaments and the Foundry.

Both of those forums have their own medals for those that participate there. Tournaments give Contribution medals to those that run tourneys and Acheivement ones to those that win them. Foundy also provide their own to those who create maps for us to play on.

So how about implementing this great idea of grifftron's and have your very own Suggs Medal.

Recognising the efforts of people who contribute is a good idea Just ask Tournaments or the Foundry.

This is something that gets brought up from time to time. I love the idea. We actually have permission to award medals. However, we've never been able to come up with a system for it. One idea was to track users' substantive posts and give to the person with the most. Another was to have the Suggestions Mods nominate and vote on people. But you've seen the revolving door in this forum. None of these ever got off the ground. Plus both of those require a not insignificant amount of time from someone. And that's time that can't be spent running around here doing what we do. At present, with us working with the new leadership to get a new system in place, there is definitely not time to do this. Perhaps in the future ... idk.

I would say that the one medal idea that is a possibility right now is a medal for people that get a unique suggestion implemented. Obviously, you still have to come up with selection criteria, but my initial thoughts were (and I'm going from memory now, not having tracked down my post):

Usually goes to the OP IF the OP has significantly furthered the suggestion and remained active for all or most of the process. The suggestion has to be unique. No medal for proposing something that you should have found somewhere else. (But I suppose this wouldn't have to be a hard-and-fast rule ... idk)
Sometimes can go to someone who has taken over a suggestion and really steered the conversation and development.

I don't know if we'll have any limits on how many medals we can hand out (1 per year that a suggestion sits there? :lol:

), but I'm open to handing out an extra medal for a suggestion when a couple people have tag-teamed it.

So, I like the idea of actually handing out our medals, in theory, but for now, I would only expect them for implemented suggestions going forward. Whether it gets any more widespread than that or whether we'll every retrospectively issue those will just be based on time and priorities.

Also, I love that little light bulb medal, but for now it would just be a GA.

by **rdsrds2120** on Sun Nov 25, 2012 1:00 pm

The only problem I have with awarding them based on having a person's Suggestion implemented is that we may award the wrong person, sometimes. There are plenty of old/rejected Suggestions that are similar to ones that are, even now, making headway in the Submitted Forum, I'm sure. The key difference between Suggestions and Foundry/Tournaments is that over there, the user gets a medal for not only thinking of the map or tournament, but working on it until the very end. There is always 1 (sometimes 2) definite people who get the medal with no ambiguity.

GA medals for active Suggestions members sounds great to me, though

BMO