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Which of the following is the best non-review article of 2006?

RIP David Gemmel -- Skar
2 (13.3%)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls -- SE
1 (6.7%)
Here There Be Monsters and Nerds -- Shrain
0 (0%)
The Geek Girl's Survival Guide #11: A Geek Girl's Guide to Meeting Men -- Ms. Fish
11 (73.3%)
Behind the Counter III -- Jeffe
1 (6.7%)

Total Members Voted: 15

Voting closed: March 28, 2007, 01:07:22 AM

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Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« on: February 27, 2007, 05:50:26 PM »
Name: Best article 2006
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Active Date: February 27 - March 27th 2007
Description: Voted Best non-review article at TWG for 2006


Every year we got a lot of great content created by our forum and friends and so we want to start showing our thanks by offering a unique award, meaning there's only one of them, for the best in show here at TWG.  First off we're doing best non-review article, which can be anything that's not a review (simple eh?), meaning no score given on the page, how this contest works is described below:

1)During the week of February 27st-March 15th  PM Spriggan with your favorite non-review articles (max 3 please) nominations, these articles must have a publish year of 2006 also don't nominate yourself or we'll toss your submissions, also don't bother trying to create a new account to nominate yourself, we have that level restriction for a reason and can easily determine who's cheating.

3) Spriggan will then take the top 5 articles and create a poll allowing everyone to vote on their favorites (again you'll need to be level 2 to vote so don't bother trying to cheat) between March 15th-27  .

4) On March 27 the winner will be awarded their prize.
Good Luck!
« Last Edit: March 18, 2007, 01:14:38 AM by Spriggan »
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2007, 11:04:48 PM »
I created a script to only show the non-reviews frm 2006 so any from this list is valid.

http://www.timewastersguide.com/sortarticles2006.php
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2007, 01:19:29 AM »
Ooooh, I like this idea. It's hard to choose, though! A Geek Girl classic? Skar's RIP David Gemmel? Or SE's Thank Heaven for Little Girls?

How do I choose?
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2007, 02:28:15 AM »
Since you can submit three, and you just mentioned three, i'm not sure what the problem is.

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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2007, 04:24:38 PM »
Uh. Perhaps I should actually READ the rules. Duh.
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2007, 06:26:29 PM »
Heh, ya that would help.  I let people nominate up to three because there are so many good articles it's hard to choose just one and that there will then be a good chance that something they like will make it to the final five.

Also on the 15th when nominating for this category is over I'll start nonmiations for best review.
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2007, 06:57:11 PM »
Only 3 days left for nominations people.

If everyone who told me that this is a good idea actually participated then I'd actually have enough nominations but I've only got a total of 4 from two people.  It's not hard to PM me with what you like, I'm surprised buy once again the total indifference people that visit this site have for this site, I guess I should know by know that most people don't care about anything other them PMing friends or EUOL.
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2007, 08:29:37 PM »
I completely forgot about it--kept putting it off till I had more time. I've sent in my nominations finally.
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2007, 08:44:11 PM »
Thanks Stacer.

Just a quick rule update, for the final vote I'm limiting a writer to 2 articles only so more people have a chance to be in (right now if I did the final vote list there would only be two people on it).  This doesn't affect nominations though, you can spend all your nominations on one person if you want.

I figure this is the fairest way to do it.
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2007, 11:57:05 PM »
That's a good plan. I couldn't decide, so I think I skewed it (and I'm kind of under a deadline + moving thing this week), so I still didn't spend the time I wanted to on it, but I did the best I could.
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2007, 01:28:51 AM »
Submitted. I suppose I've been a bit of a dapper around here. I understand that a lot of the more normal folks have kind of lessened there time around here and... ok, this is going into a rant. I'll be quiet.
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2007, 05:16:30 PM »
The nomination period ends tomorrow at 7pm so if you haven't done so yet please nomiate your favorite articles from the past year.
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2007, 01:12:33 AM »
Voting is live for the next 10 days, the poll will close automatically and the results won't be displayed until then.

Good luck to everyone.
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2007, 06:51:36 AM »
Hey cool!  I got nominated!  That's awesome!
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Re: Best non-review article at TWG 2006
« Reply #14 on: March 18, 2007, 06:58:20 AM »
You were the most nominated person but they were all for different articles so I had to decide on which one went up for the final vote, which was done by looking at the total view count among other things.
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