June 2017 S/MotM

[Lamont]

MotM/SotM for June 2017

Like previous months, the staff are keeping tabs on who we believe should be rewarded for their efforts on the forum. We even have a criteria to keep in mind if you want to maximize your chances:


Member of the Month

• Quality of RP posts: Are your posts creative and detailed so it weaves a rich and engrossing tale?
  
  
• Contribution to the site: How have you contributed to the development and history of this site? You could perhaps make some suggestions to improve the RP experience or create new topics for discussion or forum games to entertain us all.
  
  
• Participation and activity: Demonstrate to the staff that you enjoy visiting ZZ regularly. There are a large number of discussion topics in the General Boards which you could participate in. Even talking in the cbox might be a way of showing that you can fit in and get along well with the ZZ community.
  
  
• Good ZZ citizen: Although this is harder to judge, there are sometimes things that you can do to help out new members, current members and even staff. For example, you might welcome new visitors to the site as well as answer a few questions based on your current understanding of our rules and expectations.
  

Please note that this is not the only criteria that we may judge you on. There are other ways in which you could be selected such as promoting the site and advertising it. The staff members will be making nominations at the end of the month and the winner will be announced shortly after.



Staff of the Month

• Efficiency of Modding: This includes not only quality and quantity but also speed and accuracy. As we continue to grow, a lot more threads will need modding so the main criteria for Staff of the Month is the way that you handle the pressure of modding and balancing this out with replies to your own thread.
  
  
• Variety of modding: As this would suggest, we are looking out for people who respond to many different threads and can adapt to different scenarios and situations imposed on them. There is also a trend towards providing choices for members in their RP instead of the mundane trainer and wild Pokémon battles forced upon them. Also, don't feel daunted by moderating other staff members.
  
  
• Participation in Staff activities: Something as simple as claiming Mod Points not only shows that you are enjoying the perks of being a Moderator, but it also advertises yourself too. We can only get a true sense of how much work that you've done by looking at Mod Point totals and it provides useful data, which can be analyzed and used to improve our efficiency in the future. Also, other contributions to Area 51 projects and making custom sprites for special events is much desired.
  
  
• Initiative and leadership: If you see something on the site that needs attention, you could perhaps alert admin to it through a pm or a thread in the Staff Area. To give an example, there might be a need to revise a particular rule or you feel that something is missing in the RP and needs to be covered.
  
  
• Site maintenance and management: Included in this is the administrative work that you've done. This could be as simple as responding to "Mod Request" topics for threads that are more than 5 days old or updating starter Pokémon into new members' profiles. Even looking after Game Corner threads.
  

Thanks for reading,
ZZ Staff Team.

[Lamont]

June 2017 MOTM/SOTM

It's been hard to keep up with all the activity this month! It's always a joy to see everyone having so much fun and buckling down to squeeze every penny they can in order to nab the final few things in the Alola Festival. It was a great few months and we hope that everyone enjoyed the events! We hope to have more fun updates'n things coming up, such as more inclusion of the most recent Gen.

Stay tuned! For now let's get onto our awards...

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Member of the Month

@lin

Partaking in nearly every event and dipping into the extras lying about Lin really drew our eye this last while. She has been very helpful in chat with returning and new members alike while staff weren't on, making sure no one misses out on the fun times that were coming to a close. She also provided tidbits of feedback to help make everyone elses experiences more enjoyable of which we always appreciate.

Congratulations Lin! We hope you continue to enjoy your time on ZZ and look forward to your adventures through the forum!

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Staff of the Month

Noerd

Likely to no one's surprise Noerd snagged this month's Staff of the Month with ease! He's once again shown to be a pillar of the mod community and is ever amusing in chat. If not for his efforts many staff discussions would be collecting dust, and despite being bombarded with horrible hot weather he has still managed to trump all others on the modding force. Kudos! You have more than earned this award ^^

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So you two, feel free to choose either one of the below as a reward for your efforts on ZZ:


Croagunk
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 10
Attacks: Astonish, Mud-Slap, Poison Sting, Meditate^EM
Ability: Anticipation OR Dry Skin
Nature/Personality: [choose]
Other: M/SotM Jun 2017

SPOILER: Click to show

[img src="https://pldh.net/media/pokemon/gen5/blackwhite/453.png"]
[b]Croagunk[/b]
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 10
Attacks: Astonish, Mud-Slap, Poison Sting, Meditate[sup]EM[/sup]
Ability: Anticipation OR Dry Skin
Nature/Personality: [choose]
Other: M/SotM Jun 2017

OR


Inkay
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 10
Attacks: Camouflage^EM, Peck, Tackle, Reflect
Ability: Contrary OR Suction Cups
Nature/Personality: [choose]
Other: M/SotM Jun 2017

SPOILER: Click to show

[img src="http://sweepercalc.com/css/images/sprites/inkay.png"]
[b]Inkay[/b]
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 10
Attacks: Camouflage[sup]EM[/sup], Peck, Tackle, Reflect
Ability: Contrary OR Suction Cups
Nature/Personality: [choose]
Other: M/SotM Jun 2017

[Deleted]

Wow, I did not see that coming, thank you so much.

Coming back for the Alola event has been such a pleasure, I am in awe of your creativity and all the fun little things you have been running. I look forward to continue coming here and having fun with all of you.

I choose Inkay and leave it blank for now.

Got dis!
~L

[Noerd]

'Grats, Lin, you deserve a bit of recognition. :D

Also, thanks for voting me, guys. <3 June's been a weird month for me personally, so it's nice to cap it off with SotM. Not gonna say much more because frankly... I think I said most of it by now and it'll get boring if I keep repeating myself.

After much painstaking thought (and a bit of realisation that Croagunk is already available, thanks Tarlar :P), I'll be nabbing myself an Inkay. Is beautiful, is life, all that stuff. Blank for now.

I would prefer this to not go in Marshall's 'dex, as this is supposed to be for Melanie... but she's not finished because I haven't had time. ;-;

[Tiki]

congrats to the winners

[❤ Aphrodite ❤]

Congrats you two!