How to Nominate a Member for an Award (Article)

[Green Gaia]

We have changed the nomination of award procedure. Now instead of nominating someone on the open forum you will PM your nomination to anyone on the newly formed Awards Committee who will then review the nomination and give out awards that are deserved. Award announcements will then be made in the Member Announcements forum.

Sunstone is the Super Moderator over the Awards Committee, and for now all nominations should be sent to him. A complete list of committee members will be posted soon.

[Sunstone]

What are the Awards?

There are some automatic medals, such as the article award, but those don't need nominations. Here's those that need nominations:


Above and Beyond Award: For going above and beyond to improve RF or make this a better community.

Humor Award: For humorous posts that are uplifting.

Courtesy Award: For setting the standard in constantly showing others basic respect and courtesy even when under pressure.

Kindness Award: For remarkable acts of kindness and generosity.

Scholar Award: For displaying high intellectual standards and a broad knowledge base.

Great Suggestion Award: For a great suggestion that improves RF

Research Award: For enhance debate and discussion by digging up valuable information relevant to the debate or discussion and posting it to the thread.

Creative Threads Award: For starting a myriad threads on new, interesting, and creative topics or approaches to topics.

When nominating someone, please include which award you are nominating them for, and as many reasons as you can think of for why they should get that award.

[Sunstone]

My apologies, but I forgot to mention two other awards we have. The first is the Tolerance Award.

The Tolerance Award is to be given to members who show exceptional tolerance for views not their own, such as a tolerance for religious and/or political views that they themselves dont' share.

The second is the Great Suggestion Award. This is usually given by Todd himself to members who make a great suggestion for improving the Forum. For instance, Jeffrey won the award upon suggesting the Amber Alert system.