Welcome to the TNG avatar contest voting thread! Rules: You are NOT allowed to vote for yourself. You are only allowed to vote for ONE avatar in every category. Votes cast by people violating the rules will be subtracted from the total vote count. Note: Votes are public, so everyone can see who voted for what. The poll wil be open for 72 hours. Episode - Data's Day: Rat Boy: orac: Vasquez Rocks: Defcon: Theme - Romulans: Rat Boy: orac: Vasquez Rocks: Defcon: Random Theme - Death Scenes: Rat Boy: orac: Vasquez Rocks: Defcon:
Rat Boy Vasquez Rocks orac You can only start to compose the poll after you have posted the thread, so usually there's a delay of a few minutes between the appearance of the thread and the appearance of the poll.
Rat Boy for all three this time. I've pinned this thread as per usual, but I do wonder how fair/sustainable it is to keep pinning these contests given a relatively low number of competitors and even voters. I don't know. I have no particular issue either way (it's no work for me to pin stuff); just wondering what forum members feel about it. Of course, asking in this thread is a bit of a self-selecting bias, but still, would be good to get your thoughts.
Well, one could argue that not pinning the thread makes even fewer people entering it. Also, the thing with the avatar threads is, that for the most part you don't have to post that much in them once you posted your entries. So even if many people enter the contest, the thread gets purged relatively fast from the first page. IMO it's fairly reasonable to pin the avatar threads. But maybe you're right, running the avatar contest over at the TOS forum somehow makes me quite biased.
RatBoy Defcon Defcon And Defcon, with regards to my question about the poll, I thought that maybe you accidentally forgot to make the poll.
FWIW Like I said when I started this, it's really up to you. I appreaciate that you always pin and unpin the threads (and extremly fast ), but if you think it isn't fair to single out the avatar contest for pinning that's O.K. for me.
The poll is closed now. Congratulations to Rat Boy (who tied with me for the win in the random theme category and won the episode category) and Vasquez Rocks (theme). All the winning avatars have taken their rightful places in the TNG Avatar Contest Hall of Fame gallery. TNG AVATAR CONTEST HALL OF FAME (after 13 contests) 9 wins NCC-1701 Vasquez Rocks Rat Boy 6 wins DanTheGrey Defcon 5 wins Kegek 3 wins Jhaenara 1 win kalysto YYZ orac Rat Boy, please choose a new episode and a new random theme. Vasquez Rocks, please choose a new TNG theme. List of past contests.
If you want to have a start to finish lead in this ranking at the end of this contest (there are only a bit over 2 years left until we're through with all episodes ) you better participate in the next one. Anyway, the new Contest is up.