Peelies 2003

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Originally posted elsewhere by Nixorbo on the topic of this year's Peelies:

At any rate, we/I probably won't start them up until the end of summer, that way we'll actually finish them by the end of the year.
If: SPAM > topic
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I'm just wondering if there's been any progess made on this front. People bring it up from time to time, and the general consensus seems to be that they should be underway by now, but nothing's happening.

Normally I wouldn't devote an entire thread to this sort of thing, but with the test thread gone, I couldn't find any satisfactory place to stick this.

Also: Here's a link to last year's Peelies, for those who've not seen them:

2002 PEELie Awards

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Originally posted by LAN.gnome:
they should be underway by now, but nothing's happening.

That pretty much sums it up.

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:cough: lazy :cough:
while you're at it, Nixxy, you've got:
the Peeltrix contest
and the Peeltrix part 2...

::cracks whip::

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
 That pretty much sums it up.

Well, then I'll hazard a little initiative and post last year's categories and winners here. Hopefully it'll momentarily gain everyone's attention and interest, and we'll be able to get this ball rollin':

Male PEELer of the Year
Tweek

Female PEELer of the Year
rach_the_tall

Hubert J. Farnsworth Award for Most Off-Topic PEELer
meisterPOOP

www.Engrish.com Award for Worst Butchering of the English Language
Nurdbot

Drollery Domicile Award for Funniest PEELer
FishyJoe

Best Thread
Where are they now? (Drippy_Taco)

PEELer Most Infatuated With a Futurama Character
Juliet (Bender)

Most Valuable Moderator
Drippy_Taco

Palm Beach County Florida Award for Best Poll
Futurama Survivor (Kryten)

R_Hawks Award for Excellence in Avatar-Making
]PaulFSAC[

Best Custom Avatar
Nixorbo (VelourFog - Disco Stu)

Best Use of Graphics in a Signature
cellery (Various)

Best Use of Text in a Signature
VelourFog (Apology)

Best Signature
cellery (Malfunctioning Eddie)

Rocky Balboa Award for Best Comeback
Sarge

Best Debate
The Philosophy Thread (Torquemada)

C-SPAN Award for Most Convincing Debator
Ben

Chris Rock Award for Most Creative Use of Profanity
totalnerduk (Favorite Swearwords Thread)

Best Fanart
Sarge (Weird Futurama Characters)

Best Fanfic
AstroZombie (Various)

Most Creative Username
iliketowankalot

It's Pat Award for Most Disputed Gender
meisterPOOP

Canada Award for Best Non-PEEL Futurama Message Board
The Hip Joint

Castaway Memorial Award for Most-Missed PEELer
Apathy Party

Carrot Top Memorial Award for Least-Missed PEELer
frozenfry

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman Award for Most Torrid PEEL Relationship
danny_dude and Juliet

Gary Coleman Jr. Award for Best PEELer Under 15 Years of Age
Aslate

VF's note: No nominations yet, please

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Originally posted by mikey:
Do these nominations do anything?

Not quite sure yet; I'm just hoping to get the ball rolling so a mod can take over later and claim all the credit. 

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I think there should be an IRC-related award... personally I do a lot more talking on there than here (its only recently that I'm starting to get to 30 posts    )...

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Woo! Youngest PEELer award's my best hope...

I'm not sure when the mods will get this rolling...thus I'll keep my noms 'till then.

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*sigh*
people, this thread is not for nominations and PEELies has not started yet.

 

I think there should be an IRC-related award... personally I do a lot more talking on there than here (its only recently that I'm starting to get to 30 posts  )...

if there was a PEEL IRC award, i don't think you'd win it, since you're not the one who created most FAQs *cough*

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the best way to get Nix to do something is to make him think you are taking it over yourself

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Can someone who's overseeing this give us an email address to send nominations to?

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Mellll: I would think that Nix would be in charge of it, since he invented it and would cry if someone else took over. Maybe when he comes home from work today he will tell you guys what to do. More than likely he'll just sit around and do nothing.

ps- I'm deleting all the nomination posts. No nominations, ok? More details will come soon (I assume).

or i could just post this link to stir up trouble

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At the 2002 PEELies, the PEELies Committee did all the nominations, and later posted an email-address for people to vote through. I'm pretty sure the 2003 version will follow the same formula, otherwise it'll just be "POTM redux, now with more spam!"

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C-SPAN Award for Most Convincing Debator
Ben

Why doesn't that surprize me?

[announcer off of Rocko's Modern life]The Benz, you've watched them kill deep sea divers. Now, you can watch them kill right-wingers.[/announcer off of Rocko's Modern Life] Anyway, which Ben won that award? The cynical, right-wing hating Ben? Or the cynical, imperialism hating Ben? Or that other Ben that I know nothing about?

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman Award for Most Torrid PEEL Relationship
danny_dude and Juliet

Gary Coleman Jr. Award for Best PEELer Under 15 Years of Age
Aslate

cute.
I think my best shot at a PEELie would be best male PEELer, which is a bit of a long shot. damn that sexy Sprite.

If only there was a PEELie for creating new words, and finding new uses for old words. I would be sure to win. Perhaps I would also have a shot at most controversial PEELer, but that would also be a long shot.

Edit: I would probably also win if there was a PEELie for longest PEEL story ever.

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Cute eh?

Just wondering, am i elligable for the Best Young PEELer award again? I started this year as a 14 year old, but i passed the 15 barrier on August 11th.

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Can I suggest two new categorys?

Most Annoying Newbie.

Best Newbie of the year.

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How can you have a most annoying newbie and best newbie category? I mean, the top picks from both categorys are no longer with us. thanks VF

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Originally posted by Teral:
At the 2002 PEELies, the PEELies Committee did all the nominations, and later posted an email-address for people to vote through. I'm pretty sure the 2003 version will follow the same formula, otherwise it'll just be "POTM redux, now with more spam!"

Ah; see, since I wasn't here last year, I didn't know. I would've left it up to someone who was involved last year, but since no one was stepping up to the plate...

Well, in any case we've got a few people talking about it now; that might be enough to convince the totally not lazy powers-that-be to get around to setting the PEELies up for this year.

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Can I suggest "Biggest Spammer" category to lay that question to rest once and for all?

And also "Least likely to leave his/her keyboard"

And also one that I can win, so I can collect a second PEELIE.

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@ LAN.Gnome: patience, young Padawan.  Let's hear what Nix have to say.

 

Originally posted by Nurdbot:
Can I suggest two new categorys?

Most Annoying Newbie.

Best Newbie of the year.

You may.

Suggestions rejected. Unless you can determine what constitutes a newbie, PEEL'er/PEEL'ette/Young PEEL'er of the Year and Least Missed PEEL'er covers everything.

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I don't think giving awards to those that are annoying and spam is a good thing, does this not encourage them if anything?

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Originally posted by aslate:
I don't think giving awards to those that are annoying and spam is a good thing, does this not encourage them if anything?

It's not rewarding them, more like an official Name-N-Shame thing.

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I'd probobaly win biggest spammer, and most annoying newbie if they were added so what's the point of having them.

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To give you a due sense of shame, and prove that we do want you around, we just want you to change (as a generic comment to all annoying newbies).

That's the point of these "evil" awards. To prompt people to change themselves so as not to "win" another.

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Yes, but perhaps it'd encourage them to try and be annoying?

And what's wrong with best newbie? doesn't it mean whoever the best newbie was (i.e. least newbish)? Say someone who just joins and is pretty good with things from the start. Isn't that good?

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But the problem is, "what is a newbie?" A newbie for 2003 would be anyone who joined between January and November of this month. That includes a lot of people, some who don't want to be called "n00bs".

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But when you're talking about a yearly award, what's a newbie? Anyone that joined this year, that's alot!

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I think the nominations would nominate themselves in n00b category and we could just weed through them.  PEELies 2003 should be twice as best as PEELies 2002.... for some reason.....

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Yes, well it depends on how long you define a user as a noob. For two months, lets say, how they were during those two first months.

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There's a reason we eliminated Best Newbie/Rookie of the Year from consideration last year.  These are supposed to cover all of 2003.  Should someone who joined in January be considered as a newbie in ::checks calendar:: November?  And who's going to remember January and February?  I can't even remember last week.

OK, anyone, anyone at all, who would like to be on the committee, please email me at nixorbo@yahoo.com with your Username and why you should be a part of the Council of Nine.  Teral's in by default, and so am I, amd it looks like gnome's in, so that leaves six spots.

Things I'm going to be looking for:

Been registered on PEEL for at least 6 months.
In good standing - able to get along with most PEELers
Not power hungry - I hate competition
A good mixture that more or less represents PEEL - some Europeans, someCanadians, some Americans, at least one girl, etc.

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Originally posted by aslate:
Just wondering, am i elligable for the Best Young PEELer award again? I started this year as a 14 year old, but i passed the 15 barrier on August 11th.

Also me, I turned 15 on the 6th of September.

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:

Things I'm going to be looking for:

Been registered on PEEL for at least 6 months.
In good standing - able to get along with most PEELers
Not power hungry - I hate competition
A good mixture that more or less represents PEEL - some Europeans, someCanadians, some Americans, at least one girl, etc.

Damn, I won't bother emailing you then.

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*Nick will be sure to send off that email... maybe*

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I'm tempted, but like Nix I'm power hungry. Ask me if you don't get much young male Brits.

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I'd rather vote. You guys don't get to vote, right?
Take my email from last year, cross out Ninaka's name, insert Nurdy's name. (over and over and over...)

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Margarita uttered:
 if there was a PEEL IRC award, i don't think you'd win it, since you're not the one who created most FAQs *cough*

Pfft, who does the really nice stats? Me. (I'm online 90% of the time, which I need to be so you can access it)

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I thought the committee membership was decided back in August 

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Modernized comittee.

There are many more PEELers since las year.

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Originally posted by The Names Nick:
Anyway, which Ben won that award? The cynical, right-wing hating Ben? Or the cynical, imperialism hating Ben? Or that other Ben that I know nothing about?

Which one am I?

:convinces Nick, forcibly:

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
There's a reason we eliminated Best Newbie/Rookie of the Year from consideration last year.  These are supposed to cover all of 2003.  Should someone who joined in January be considered as a newbie in ::checks calendar:: November?  And who's going to remember January and February?  I can't even remember last week.

OK, anyone, anyone at all, who would like to be on the committee, please email me at nixorbo@yahoo.com with your Username and why you should be a part of the Council of Nine.  Teral's in by default, and so am I, amd it looks like gnome's in, so that leaves six spots.

Woo hoo! The two sweetest words in the English language: de-fault!  De-fault!  De-fault!

And aslate hit it right on the head, why we don't have "Biggest Spammer" and similar categories. It just encourage people to be even more annoying in order to win a PEELie. Plus an award should only be handed out for good achievements. "Least Missed PEEL'er" is acceptable, since the recipient isn't here any more.

Moreover, a PEElie is a PEELie, just like an Oscar is an Oscar. Most people don't even care about the category. How many time have you seen movies claiming to have won 3 Oscars, without telling the awards were for "Best Best Boy", "Best Catering" and "Best Use of Product Placement"? Too damn often.

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How about a PEELie for 'Most Legally Blonde PEELer/PEELetter?'

For those of you who have been asking for too much help in the computer thread. It is time you got what you deserve.