Yaris Of The Month?!?!?! Anyone?

[AdeJong 03]

[JumpmanYaris]

LOL YEAH

[JumpmanYaris]

now would it be LB and sedan together or apart??

[AdeJong 03]

Originally Posted by JumpmanYaris

now would it be LB and sedan together or apart??

thats a good question. there arent enough modded sedans to have its own full category id say so it should probably be combined

[blacksandiegovitz]

Originally Posted by AdeJong 03

^^ Yeah

[PETERPOOP]

combined for sure.

just pic abunch of cars that you think should be featured; then randomly draw a number and write something up on that car for the month. unless you had specific ones you wanted to start with.

[cali yaris]

combined. I don't even think there should be voting (gets political sometimes), just handle it and feature a car you like every month, with a write up or mod list, or whatever. I'm sure we'll all enjoy the thread.

[ern-diz]

Originally Posted by cali yaris

combined. I don't even think there should be voting (gets political sometimes), just handle it and feature a car you like every month, with a write up or mod list, or whatever. I'm sure we'll all enjoy the thread.

+1

[DandiDani]

yeah, the voting process may get a lil complicated...i think just featuring a member's car with list of mods and lots of pics of it would be the best idea too.

[Sabretooth]

Heres the best way to handle it...

NO VOTING, voting only makes it a popularity contest, you can take one person who is an awesome member, contributes and/or innovates something for us (the Yaris community), but they have no crazy mods though to their car...and place them against a person who doesnt contribute much, but has an awesome looking car. Thats when some people lose track of what the whole feature thread is about, and the nice looking car wins over the person who deserves it hands down.

Just feature a person, car, whatever who is a hell of member. Just make sure they are active and capable of contributing to the next section: Then you write them a PM, or email...whichever you may have, or even IM if they have it on their contact info... Try and get some information about the person, where they are from, mod list, motive for buying the car, what the plans are for the car... then do a little writeup on the person, the car, make it a nice little read, nothing huge. Make sure to ask the person for any specific pics they want of their car, or just whatever, lol.

Just post it... if people gripe (someone always will), who cares. Its a personal opinion of someone who just thinks there should be recognition for someone who is an "over acheiver" on a forum.

Just my .02c

[tomato]

Some ideas:

- Combine LB and Sedan. No discrimination

- develop a questionnaire (Year you bought your car, mods - or not , why did you get a Yaris, what did you own before, then, a technical section or whatever.... ) Everybody could contribute ideas to developping the questionnaire but some members are going to have to take charge for organizing the thread and eventually decide what goes on the questionnaire and when it is ready. When it's ready, then sticky it some place.

- Once the questionnaire is agreed upon and stickied where everybody can see it, then, have forum members copy and paste it and submit it back with answers and pix of their cars (again, someone is going to have to decide which Yaris gets featured) .

I hate to say it but IMO this kind of project does need moderation and a minimum of administration Maybe some trusted members (volunteers?) can help the mods with the legwork (reviewing all the Yarii and submitting the 10 best ones?) but ultimately someone with admin privileges will have to make some decisions.

I don't know, I'm still brainstorming about how to implement something like that, but those are preliminary ideas you all can work with, I hope.

I've seen "member of the month" in a different forum before. We got a questionnaire to fill out (a forum admin would send it since they have our email address) and we had to email it back (if we agreed to be featured, of course) with a small picture. The questionnaire was in Word, but it could also be a cut and paste.

Anyway, hope that helps, use what you can.

[tomato]

^ you should probably take a poll about whether or not members will be voting. It looks like a number of people were against it.

It might work out better if the Yarii were simply nominated

Just my 2 c though ;)

[Sabretooth]

As for getting the Admins involved...

YarisBueller and Vitzboy are rare and few to log on and actually make changes or even work on the site. So 99% of the work will need to be done by the Mod team, and to what tools they are limited to. Even to make a devoted section completely for this project will require the admins to log in and make a change. Unless they have allocated more power to the mods post-hack.

[tomato]

Originally Posted by Sabretooth

As for getting the Admins involved...

YarisBueller and Vitzboy are rare and few to log on and actually make changes or even work on the site. So 99% of the work will need to be done by the Mod team, and to what tools they are limited to. Even to make a devoted section completely for this project will require the admins to log in and make a change. Unless they have allocated more power to the mods post-hack.

A dedicated section would be real cool!!!

I don't want to bring up a sore subject, though, I know that the site admins aren't present so pretty much the mods' hands are tied.

Maybe we can have a YOTM anyway. I think the most problematic question is how the selection is going to be done. That is where I see the most protential ruffled feathers It's another one of these "doomed if you do and doomed if you don't" thing...

[jekqmb]

Well i made the October YOTM, rules are simple and anyone can enter and win....Lets get October stickied, then if October goes well i think it should have a dedicated section!

[PETERPOOP]

no voting

[jekqmb]

Originally Posted by PETERPOOP

no voting

It will be way easier with Voting....Not everyone likes a cool looking car, good photography goes a long way!

[PETERPOOP]

oh great....... here we go again