The Dromies 2012!

[Peanut]

Hey, gang! I've been thinking about this for a couple weeks now and I'm fully prepared to put the work in and bring the Dromies back! I'm not gonna throw down any rules or anything yet, this is just to put out the feelers to see if the interest is there.

Holla back, kids!

Edit: Alright, for the immediate sake of my sanity in doing this and for those willing to help out, I'm going to put some pretty basic rules and some thoughts on the table to try and make this as painless and as FUN as possible. Key word in that entire sentence is fun, so let's all keep that in mind.

First off, if anyone is serious with helping me just shoot me a PM and we'll set up something where we can converse freely. From my one previous year of doing these awards this is far and away one of the most important aspects of putting these things together. At the same time I appreciate that a lot of people will want to have a hand in helping out, but I'm gonna try and keep the group small, not only to avoid potential arguments, but to keep things in control. Be warned, I won't allow for the awards "committee" to be nominated or voted for, to avoid any conflict of interest.

I'm planning to keep all nominations and votes entirely through PM, because publicly voting and nominating completely destroys this entire process.

I'm going to pair down the amount of categories significantly to remove possible redundancies and to keep it simple, but once the "core" categories have been worked out we'll open up the floor for people to suggest a few they'd like to see.

SPREAD THIS ACROSS THE FORUM! We've got an influx of new members and the TMNT sections are constantly buzzing, so let's get as many people involved in this as we possibly can. The more involved the more entertaining this all is!

The moment any whining begins, whether involving people upset with the awards themselves, the nominations, the amount of time it takes to organize everything, or any other petty nonsense, I'll shut the entire thing down and forget it. In the same vain, let's try to keep the kind of crap TMNT Canadian already pulled off 2 posts into this thread at a minimum. It's annoying.

I'll have the complete set of rules for the awards once I get a crew together and we begin hammering out the process. Until then, let's spread the news of the 2012 Technodrome Awards aka The Dromies, as far and wide across the forum as we can.

Edit 2: Listening to MC Peanut and R-Izzy representin' with On Da Drome to get myself motivated.

Edit 3: We feel we've locked down our categories and now we're opening up the floor to you guys to give us some suggestions before we head into nominations. If you've got ideas for a category in this years awards, let us know!

[Jester]

Sounds like a plan. I'll be glad to help. I propose a "life time achievement award" for this years Dromies.

[TheCanadiandrome]

hmm...wonder if i could get nominated for something?

[Machias Banshee]

YES!!! This will be fun...

[zkarlette]

Originally Posted by Jester

Sounds like a plan. I'll be glad to help. I propose a "life time achievement award" for this years Dromies.

Of course you would...

[Jester]

So...what are the categories?

I seem to remember:

• Best Thread Creator
• Worst Thread Creator
• Most Thoughtful Poster
• Least Thoughtful (Most Thoughtless) Poster
• Best Duo
• Best All-Around Member
• Funniest Member
• Angriest Member
• Nicest Member
• Member You'd Most Like to Meet

Any I'm missing?

Originally Posted by zkarlette

Of course you would...

I don't understand? Why are you confusing me?

Here's a list from 2008:

Spoiler:

-Member who spends too much time here
-Member you'd most like to meet
-Most artistic member
-Best Drome Author
-Least Appreciated Member
-Most Humorous
-Most interesting name
-Most lovable member
-Nicest member
-Strangest member
-Most insightful posts
-Most interesting topic creator
-Weirdest topic creator
-Member with the Biggest Image Archive
-Member with the Smallest Vocabulary
-Member with the Biggest Vocabulary
-Best Couple
-Best Duo of Members
-Best Moderator
-Overall Best Member
-Member most likely to kill a man
-Pair most likely to hook up (and probably take over the world!)
-Most likely to strip at the Drome Con
-Most likely to end up on National TV (for WHATever reason!)
-Most likely to still be here in 40 years
-I'd hit that! (the male version)
-I'd hit that! (the female version)
-Biggest Raph Fan
-Biggest Mike fan
-Biggest Don fan
-Biggest Leo fan
-Most likely to survive the zombie apocalypse
-Member most likely to never receive an award

and the year before:

Spoiler:

-Member who spends too much time here
-Member you'd most like to meet
-Most artistic member
-Best Drome Author (new category, since we have an artistic member one)
-Least Appreciated Member
-Most Humorous
-Most interesting name
-Most lovable member
-Nicest member
-Rudest member
-Strangest member
-Most insightful posts
-Most interesting topic creator
-Weirdest topic creator
-Member with the Biggest Image Archive
-Member with the Smallest Vocabulary
-Member with the Biggest Vocabulary
-Best Couple
-Best Duo of Members
-Best Warned Member
-Best Banned Member
-Best Moderator
-Overall Best Member
-Member most likely to kill a man
-Member most likely to never receive an award

Second Annual's List:

Spoiler:

-Member who spends too much time here
-Member you'd most like to meet
-Most artistic member
-Least Appreciated Member
-Most Humorous
-Most interesting name
-Most lovable member
-Nicest member
-Rudest member
-Strangest member
-Most insightful posts
-Most interesting topic creator
-Weirdest topic creator
-Member with the Biggest Image Archive
-Member with the Smallest Vocabulary
-Member with the Biggest Vocabulary
-Best Couple
-Best Duo of Members
-Best Warned Member
-Best Banned Member
-Best Moderator
-Overall Best Member
-Member most likely to kill a man
-Member most likely to never receive an award

I think this is the first years list:

Spoiler:

-Member who spends too much time here
-Member you'd most like to meet
-Most artistic member
-Least Appreciated Member
-Most Humorous
-Most interesting name
-Most lovable member
-Nicest member
-Rudest member
-Strangest member
-Most insightful posts
-Most interesting topic creator
-Weirdest topic creator
-Member with the Biggest Image Archive
-Member with the Smallest Vocabulary
-Member with the Biggest Vocabulary
-Best Couple
-Best Duo of Members
-Best Warned Member
-Best Moderator
-Best Administrator
-Overall Best Member
-Member most likely to never receive an award

[MikeandRaph87]

How about adding a few categories:
Best newcomer

Most dedicated comic fan

Most dedicated other media fan

Coolest Social Group

[BubblyShell22]

These sound like fun awards. I think it would be awesome to bring them back, especially as we're getting a lot more activity now.

[The Stryker]

Originally Posted by mikeandraph87

How about adding a few categories:
Best newcomer

Most dedicated comic fan

Most dedicated other media fan

Coolest Social Group

Those all sound terrible. Keep it simple.

[Jester]

Best Newcomer seems kinda cool. Coolest Social Group could get a bit dicey though.

[Peanut]

Alright, I'm gonna go ahead and edit the main post to try and lay out some ground rules, because immediately we're getting some of the same problems that have destroyed the Dromies in years past.

[Turo602]

Sounds cool. I don't think I've ever been around when one of these things ever happened. Looking forward to it.

[Cure]

You have my support, homieeeeee. Although 4 people with links in their sigs isn't enough. Let's go, dawgz!

[TheCanadiandrome]

Got it in my sig

[KROW]

Sounds good. I'll slap the link in support.

[Katie]

Sounds good to me!

[Slap-Happy]

Got it in my sig. Excited to see what happens.

[Roseangelo]

I'm in. Was 2008 really the last time we did these?

[Peanut]

There have been attempts, but I think that may actually be the last one that actually got finished.

[Machias Banshee]

I remember Making those awards...