Rules for the 4th Annual GDC Awards


1) No campaigning via posts or PMs
You can't send PM's telling people to vote for you for any award, nor can you make posts asking people to. Just to close a loophole, don't ask someone else to ask people to vote for you either. We don't mind a simple line in your signature, but that's as far as campaigning can go. If you are asking people to vote for you, you will be disqualified.

2) Mods cannot be nominated for some awards
The categories will be posted up this Wednesday, and mods cannot be nominated for 12 of the 27 awards, the first 11 are grouped together to make that point more clear when voting. We decided this was more fair for other users, since awards like "nicest" and "best green day fan" or "smartest" tend to often go to moderators since we're seen around the most. There are still 15 other categories that mods can be nominated in.

3) Do not create new accounts to vote
If we find that anyone is creating new accounts to vote for themselves, they will be disqualified. If someone is found creating new accounts to vote for a friend, all their votes will be disqualified.

4) Only members with 100+ posts can vote for 'Overall Best Contributor'
There will be a prize this year for 'Overall Best Contributor', and to make this vote fair for everyone, only members with over 100 posts can participate in voting for this category. This will eliminate the problem of people creating accounts, or having their friends join just to vote for them to win a prize. It might seem petty and trivial to the majority of people, but we do want these awards to be fun and fair for everyone. This is the 12th award (mentioned above) that mods cannot be nominated for.

So there are the rules. If you have any questions/concerns or rule suggestions, please use this thread. This thread is not to discuss the categories, those will be posted up on Wednesday and, as usual, we will allow you guys to vote to add or remove categories at that time.

We will try to get all the categories and any other suggestions worked out by the end of this month, and voting is currently scheduled to begin on September 15, 2008

Let battle....commence....

Thank god you put in the no campaining thing, if people really have to campaign at all, then they fail.

Nice..

Yes, hopefully I should get at least one award this year. Are we aloud to put "Vote for so and so" in our sigs?

Yup, as long as it's not obnoxious or over the size limit.

And just to make a point, you guys shouldn't be asking to be nominated for anything yet anyways (for those of you that already have something in your signature), wait till we at least get all the categories figured out.

cool!

Alright thanks. Ill wait.

Ahem.
Might wanna correct that.
Confused me for a second.

Can't wait till Wednesday.

psh, totally already beat you on that.

Sweet! I can't wait.

so now, how do you plan to moniter our PMing so we can't campaigne through that way?

People may bring it to our attention if they have been recieving PM's from randomers trying to secure a vote

people will bitch about it. no one likes being bugged to vote for someone. it was annoying as hell last time, so we'll disqualify people who do it this time.

I hope the no campaigning thing is enforced, seems every year people have stuff in their sigs even after being told not to.

Andres said people can.

Pay attention, Beth.

Jesus I am a fucktard.

LIES.

Now, excitement aside, I am glad one of the rules is that mods can't be nominated for Best Contributor. I was actually thinking about it a few days ago. It's too obvious you'll always win that one, heh.

May I suggest a new catergory?

Overuse of 'heh'

Nice, I can be nominated for all 27.

Off topic, but why do you use different colored fonts?
Juuust curious.

I'm trying to be more lively.
This place gets boring sometimes, if you hadn't noticed, and the colors at least keep me content.

I'm trying not to use darker colors that are so hard to read like the blue in my previous post though. Sorry about that.

Nice, looking forward to it.

^
Me too. It'll be the first GDC Awards I'll have paid any attention to.

heh.

I can probably guess which users are going to get a load of votes already....

lol!

Looking forward to seeing the categories, I've never won before

lulz.

I'm excited to see the categories. I keep trying to keep up with what's been going on lately cause I've been really freaking busy lately so if anyone's noticed, that's why I've been around less this past week or two.

But I'm looking forward to the awards, they always seem like fun.

Oooooooooooooooooh just in time. *wonders if anyone remembers her*

How could we forget you?!

Yay !
I missed last years cause of my *cough* hiatus
haha
Let the chaos commence

I'm looking forward to it.

I remember Jackie, where the hell have you been?

JAX SMELLS

The real world got me guys, i've broke free now though, bk to deluded land of biwee love and smut

i never win.
i won once actually
so that was a lie.
but still
id like to win something more significant than "best newbie".

The only time I was near winning something was in '06, when I got runner up for worst sig (does anyone remember the sigs? )

I won runner up (or first place ? I forget) worst sig last year.
And runner up for funniest. haha

I have no idea if I even voted or was nominated for anything.... Think my brain has lost some matter!

I won best ava.

I'm worth more than that.

If there was a best accent category, I'd vote for you.

You're so English, it's scary.

My accent is berra than his. I'm from't north innit an I can tek any o'yer on....

Well i'm going to shoosh now, this is bordering on campaining. None of that shit from me though, just good ol' straight to the bollocks TROOF!



Rofl. You type like Alex Turner.

If only I knew who Alex Turner was

Arctic Monkeys frontman.

Oh that pile of shit....




*spam over before I get my arse kicked on my first day bk*

COOL

You blasphemous mare!

Besides Neil Warnock, they're the best thing to come from Sheffield!

oh and yourself of course.