Men of Honour 2013?

What qualifies people to get a 'man of honour' award? I've never really understood what people do in order to get the award?
 
Excuse my ignorance, but what does the winner of Man of Honor get?

I don't remember forum usernames. I don't take any notice who posts, but what he/she says. If avatars were not all the same, I would maybe start remembering a few names. Signatures all all practically the same.

I'm pretty sure Leon won it.
 
Tummy said:
What qualifies people to get a 'man of honour' award? I've never really understood what people do in order to get the award?
Click to expand...







(๏̯͡๏)


MOH is a defunct thing IMO. People only recommend their favourites or someone who they remember doing one thing a year or someone who is active a lot - That's not what MOH is.

A rep system is far better because people can add reputation at that very moment for something someone else has done and it won't be forgotten months later when the MOH is being decided. Some will say reps are open to abuse but come on, this is OcUK, the rules are strong and moderation is fairly swift (look at MM/sig rules, image size rules in threads etc) so that's not a valid argument.

That won't ever happen though because a rep system is a forum addon and we have yet to have other stuff that's been requested many times over the years!
 
Last edited:
mrk said:
(๏̯͡๏)


MOH is a defunct thing IMO. People only recommend their favourites or someone who they remember doing one thing a year or someone who is active a lot - That's not what MOH is.

A rep system is far better because people can add reputation at that very moment for something someone else has done and it won't be forgotten months later when the MOH is being decided. Some will say reps are open to abuse but come on, this is OcUK, the rules are strong and moderation is fairly swift (look at MM/sig rules, image size rules in threads etc) so that's not a valid argument.

That won't ever happen though because a rep system is a forum addon and we have yet to have other stuff that's been requested many times over the years!
Click to expand...

The Misc and other areas of the internet show why this is a terrible idea.
 
mrk said:
(๏̯͡๏)


MOH is a defunct thing IMO. People only recommend their favourites or someone who they remember doing one thing a year or someone who is active a lot - That's not what MOH is.
Click to expand...

Who people recommend is irrelevant, the award was given pretty much solely by the owner with increasing input by moderaters to the point now I think it's just a moderating team decision.

Whether you or I or anyone else suggest people due to popularity, activity, hair colour or penis size is neither here nor there, it has no bearing on anything.
 
Nitefly said:
As a side note, from my own studies, I know how woefully incorrect and misleading websites such as wikipedia are, so using these websites as a reference point when arguing at great length does make me raise my wiki-warrior detecting eye-brow. Depending on the context, I may be more inclined to believe someone if they used no reference at all.

I hope that clears things up :)
Click to expand...

It did mostly clear your position up as far as I was concerned although I would say often Wikipedia is a fine place to start your research from. It shouldn't be the sum total of what you do in order to research a hypothesis or a precedent but it will more often than not point you in the right direction and wherever possible you shouldn't use any one source as the total of your research as it's not unknown for textbooks to be wrong either. It's also quite handy sometimes to go through the links to the source material where available as it's perfectly possible to come to different conclusions to whoever has interpreted them onto Wikipedia in the first place.

The__Malteser said:
Excuse my ignorance, but what does the winner of Man of Honor get?

I don't remember forum usernames. I don't take any notice who posts, but what he/she says. If avatars were not all the same, I would maybe start remembering a few names. Signatures all all practically the same.
Click to expand...

Men of Honour receive a different avatar (which suggests you don't actually notice when avatars aren't the same... :p) and a few other small privileges but it's primarily a recognition of their contributions to the forum. I'm also not entirely convinced that signatures are all practically the same, they all fit within the same parameters but within those particular limits there's a lot of ingenuity and differentiation so with a bit of attention paid you can easily discern the difference between hundreds of posters.
 
Kenai said:
Who people recommend is irrelevant, the award was given pretty much solely by the owner with increasing input by moderaters to the point now I think it's just a moderating team decision.

Whether you or I or anyone else suggest people due to popularity, activity, hair colour or penis size is neither here nor there, it has no bearing on anything.
Click to expand...

In this instance and last year's that is/was the case. We've already been told the decision has been made so everything after that is pointless 'discussion' as far as the thread goes.
 
Last edited:
It's always been the case as far as I know, there is effectively no user input to these awards at all, nothing special about this year or last year.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Men of Honour receive a different avatar (which suggests you don't actually notice when avatars aren't the same... :p) and a few other small privileges but it's primarily a recognition of their contributions to the forum. I'm also not entirely convinced that signatures are all practically the same, they all fit within the same parameters but within those particular limits there's a lot of ingenuity and differentiation so with a bit of attention paid you can easily discern the difference between hundreds of posters.
Click to expand...

Nah, I don't see avatars.

Many people just have their system spec which is entirely fine. Since they are all the same size, no eye catching gifs, little colors etc. make them all the same for me. Rotating sigs don't help either.

I recognise the most popular names mind. (I call you semi-pro-wrestler though). I just need to look. Its not a reflex action
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom