July S/MotM!

[Lamont]

MotM/SotM for July 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]

July 2017 MOTM/SOTM




Member of the Month

latani

While you're staff now that was only a recent change at the end of the month and we didn't want your contributions to go unnoticed. Your posts have been a joy to read and threads a journey everyone loved being a part of. The quality of writing deserves a note as well as it made us mods put in the extra effort to try and be just as good. Your friendly contributions in chat didn't go unnoticed especially while fighting that cold. Seems everyone caught that bug at some point this year. Congratulations Latani! We look forward to the energy you'll put in on the staffing side going forward.

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Staff of the Month

Midnightive

It's been a long time coming Mid but this was definitely your month! After those couple of months on intermittent holidays mixed with fighting a dastardly summer cold you really put yourself forward this last month. With an abundance of activity in the OOC area, tons of work behind the scenes including treading the deep waters of some untouched projects, an ever present friendly attitude, and an increase in quality of your own writing we don't think anyone deserves this more. Congrats Mid! Keep up the phenomenal work.

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


Heatmor
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 10
Attacks: Hone Claws, Incinerate, Tackle, Tickle^EM
Ability: Flash Fire OR Gluttony
Nature/Personality: [choose]
Other: M/SotM Jul 2017

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[img src="https://pldh.net/media/pokemon/gen5/blackwhite/631.png"]
[b]Heatmor[/b]
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 10
Attacks: Hone Claws, Incinerate, Tackle, Tickle[sup]EM[/sup]
Ability: Flash Fire OR Gluttony
Nature/Personality: [choose]
Other: M/SotM Jul 2017

OR


Durant
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 10
Attacks: Bite, Fury Cutter, Screech^EM, Sand Attack
Ability: Hustle OR Swarm
Nature/Personality: [choose]
Other: M/SotM Jul 2017

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[img src="https://pldh.net/media/pokemon/gen5/blackwhite/632.png"]
[b]Durant[/b]
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 10
Attacks: Bite, Fury Cutter, Screech[sup]EM[/sup], Sand Attack
Ability: Hustle OR Swarm
Nature/Personality: [choose]
Other: M/SotM Jul 2017

[Midnightive]


[img src="https://pldh.net/media/pokemon/gen5/blackwhite/631.png"]
[b]Heatmor[/b]
Name: Briar
Gender: Female
Level: 10
Attacks: Hone Claws, Incinerate, Tackle, Tickle[sup]EM[/sup]
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature/Personality: [choose]
Other: M/SotM Jul 2017

Giving this guy to Nathan.

Thank you for your kind words. I'll make sure to keep up the hard work! But I'd also like to thanks Noerd, Lamont and March for their hard work on bringing back the bug contest and doing all the scary maths I could never do. So let's all work at it to keep this site going members too. You're the life of this, I can't think of place I'm proud of to call my internet home.

[latani]

I've said it before, but knowing people like what I write makes me go 'asdfghjkl' and blush. I'm glad it's enjoyed enough to be noticed, and that y'all decided to honour me. ZZ's always been somewhere fun to be, to the point where I wander back after a while even after months or years away c: So thank you! <3 And congrats to you as well midnightive!

As for the Pokemon, I'll be updating this to Ashton ~


Heatmor
Name: Sonja
Gender: Female
Level: 10
Attacks: Hone Claws, Incinerate, Tackle, Tickle^EM
Ability: Flash Fire
Nature: Hardy
Personality: Sonja is a stand-offish sort, not really getting along with anyone in particular and preferring her own company. While not outright rude, she brushes off company with insulting politeness, her speech as fiery as her tongue. Causes no end of grief for Ashton by attempting to eat Sterling when she thinks no one is watching.
Other: M/SotM Jul 2017

[Hunter]

Congrats to Latani on the MOTM award and Midnightive on the SOTM award, both of you are very deserving recipients of the awards and are great role models who speak volumes through their hard work and dedication, keep up the good work guys <3!

[Tyger]

Congrats to you both! I like the picks and appreciate all that you two do for the site. :) It's nice to see Dani back on staff again, and to see Mid rocking it (per usual <3) Keep up the fantastic work and know that i'm rooting for you both! :D