Post by Professor Oak on Jun 20, 2010 17:43:01 GMT 11
MotM: June 2010
This has come quite late into the month already, but most of you have already known about it for quite some time. For those of you who didn't, we hold these competitions every second month of the year in order to award excellence in role-playing as well as moderating.
The way that you've conducted yourself over the last two months (May and June) will be under consideration for this competition and although you can't change the past, you can still put in a good 10 days to leave a lasting impression in our Moderators' minds.
You can read about April's MotM competition here: zapdoszulu.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=news&action=display&thread=1437
The same criteria for selection will be used and is provided below:
Member of the Month:
Selection will be based on the following criteria:
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:
As with our last SotM competition, I will be the sole judge to allow everyone the opportunity to participate without partiality. The criteria I will judge it by are as follows:
Selection will be based on the following criteria:
- Quality of roleplaying posts: Are all your posts creative and detailed so as 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 roleplaying 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 ZapdosZulu 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 ZapdosZulu 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. Also, little things such as providing a link to your profile in your siggy makes a staff member's life much easier.
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:
As with our last SotM competition, I will be the sole judge to allow everyone the opportunity to participate without partiality. The criteria I will judge it by are as follows:
- 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, I am looking out for people who respond to many different threads and can adapt to different senarios and situations imposed on them. There is also a trend towards providing choices for members in their roleplay instead of the mundane trainer and wild Pokemon battles forced upon them.
Also, don't feel daunted by moderating other staff members. I'm sure you'll get some browny points for modding some of our senior staff such as Phoenix, who definitely wants to train his Pokemanz. - 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. Although I will monitoring everyone closely this month > I 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 I can analyse and use to improve our efficiency in the future. Also, other contributions to Area 51 projects and making custom sprites for special events (you're already in my good books camtoniac xD) is much desired.
- Initiative and leadership: If you see something on the site that needs attention, you could perhaps alert me 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 roleplay 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 Pokemon into new members' profiles.
Rewards:
The winner of MotM or SotM will receive:
Absol
Name: [choose]
Gender: [choose]
Level: 10
Attacks: Feint, Scratch, Leer, Taunt.
Ability: (choose)
Nature/Personality: [choose]
Other: Member of the Month: June[choose]