Poster Of The Month - February 2010

[Clinton]

Following from the discussion here.

This is the official thread for poster of the month. I need your cooperation for this. Please.

I need you to nominate someone for
- a thread they started in February that turned out to be very popular in posts / page views OR
- a post they made in February that was particularly useful OR
- generally being an active and helpful participant during Feb.

You can't nominate yourself, me or a banned member, but you can nominate anyone else who has been a member at any point during the month of Feb. Nominate by posting below and telling us why you nominate that person. Please also link to the thread/post where relevant. As long as you stick to that you can make multiple nominations.

Nominations close on the 10th of March and I'll then start a poll thread where you can place your vote.

There will be one winner who gets a $200 prize.

[Clinton]

Nobody?

[JJMcClure]

lol, you can't give money away these days! I'd happily nominate someone but I've only been here 5 minutes.

[hooperman]

Must have missed this post.

I'll vote for TrustButVerify for their thorough due diligence in this thread.

[Michelle]

I really enjoyed this thread DomainMagnate started asking what sort of sites people tend to buy. It was interesting reading from a perspective of what 'might' be a good investment and why, but also it gave me as a seller some more insights into what buyers are looking for.

Edit: Oh that was in January.

In that case I ditto what Hooperman said. The due diligence shared was interesting.

[Clinton]

lol, you can't give money away these days!

They seem to be more interested in the chat than in the money

And that's a good thing!

You guys have made 1,500 posts in a very short space of time. What's better, they are top notch posts and are worth 15,000 posts in some other places, or more. When a few of us first got together to talk about possibly starting a forum and I volunteered to run it I expected this to be a huge uphill struggle to get members and good threads. But it's been surprisingly easy, my thanks to those original members and all the ones who joined later.

I appreciate that $200 is small change to many of you so, great, this month you get a chance to nominate someone else for both the prize and the glory!

Next month we'll focus on who started the best threads in March. That'll hopefully give me a better idea of what you want to discuss. So... start some threads!

And nominate someone today. That's a better way of saying thanks than giving them rep!

[Ajeet]

Any chance of you crowdsourcing this and awarding this to the post with the maximum reputation points? Just a thought.

[Clinton]

Good suggestion for a passive solution - I could use that to resolve the winner every month without any direct competition input from members.

But I want to get you lot more involved in this, not less!

[Ajeet]

Good suggestion for a passive solution - I could use that to resolve the winner every month without any direct competition input from members.
But I want to get you lot more involved in this, not less!

You are underestimating the amount of effort it takes to click the reputation button

[Clinton]

True. True. From what I'm seeing, not a lot of people are using the rep button. In fact, hardly anybody is using it. We could end up with a situation where nobody gets the prize!

I'll stick to the principle that users should be the ones who ultimately decide these things. So if there's a fair amount of support for your idea I'm happy to look into how I can track differences in individual rep from the start of the month to the end.