I decided to go back and reread Kathleen's post and address a couple of comments individually.

Every time one of your friends loses because of a tie-breaker or loses by one vote or 2 votes, they can thank you for it.

As most of the folks involved have already been recipients (all of the New POTW Winners have been previous POTWs) I see no uniqueness in obtaining the award a second time. 

I personally enjoyed seeking out unique folks within the community to honor. 

As for repeating the same list over and over, well that can work against you too. 

Since previous POTW winners are not excluded a close knot group could come in and nominate the same nominees every week, no matter if one on the list has already won. 

Then it is left up to individual digression and discernment as to rigging your contest at this point. AND we all know how these cliques and whispers work, I believe this scenario is in play, albeit unknowingly.  ;-) hmmm....

Jim, you WERE one of the leaders of this community for over a year.

I still am ;-)

You two make choices that cause you to lose popularity, and you don't help any of your friends to gain anything either.

Kathleen!  Now how can you make such a claim?  You really haven't a clue how popular I may or may not be now do you?  What an ambitious and indefensible statement.  There is not one person here that has not received my help when asked and many times when not asked.  Check with JP, Beryl, and even many of my so called detractors, ALP folks have always received assistance from me.  So where do you get off making such assertions?!

Please reply and tell us more about yourself, your true personality is shining through, I am enjoying learning more about you. ;-)

Happy Saturday,

Jim

 

 

Geketa I'm not all that good at math, but I would
guess that with the active forum rule in place that
only leaves maybe less than 1% of the
community eligible to participate, either as a

contender or as a nominator. I'm basing that on

the number 93,244 I see at the top of the page.

Maybe someone that is better at math than I am

can come up with a more accurate figure. As far

as forums go,  I vote for quality instead of quantity

any time.

Jim you make some good points and I'll say again

I never had a problem with the job you, Ana Maria

and Peter did on the POTW. I think you three were

actually taken advantage of by the dishonest cheaters in this community.

 

I hope everyone is having a great weekend.

 

Evelyn

 

Jim, even though you and I are not on friendly terms, I think you didn't want to quit the Awards Team.  If that's the case, you should have said so at the time and maintained your position on it.

I did ask JoAnne by personal message in January if she was interested in being my partner on the Awards Team, she did not reply.  I asked her first and she was my first choice before I asked anyone else, and several days passed and I didn't get a reply from her. 

So it could have still been Jim and another person of his choosing on the Awards Team.

Or it could have been Kathleen/JoAnne on the Awards Team.

If someone wants something, they should speak up and say they want it.
I did that.  I sent Bogdan a one-year plan for a write-in election of the Person of the Week and he read it for 2 days before accepting it.
I wrote that plan 2 years ago after the 2007 POTY, and was told that it was too difficult and would not be met with welcome.
I believe the people here are very capable of accepting and embracing new ideas, obviously they are!  The write-in plan has been welcomed by a lot more people than expected.  It takes time to become accustomed to it but once people get the hang of it, they know how it's done and it becomes easier, very easy.

I think the photo contest should be run by someone who has a passion for photography.  I do not have a passion for photography.  I wouldn't be able to put my heart and soul into it the way it deserves to be run.

I am putting my heart and soul into a quality Person of the Week election. 

Even if people don't like me or Thomas personally, they can still honor their friends by making nominations.  In the past, I'm sure there were voters who may not have liked people on the Awards Teams, but they still voted.

My original plan was to only allow nominations of people who had not won before, but Bogdan wanted to allow people who HAVE won before, it's been a long time between first and second wins for people anyway.  If people want to see different members nominated and win, lots of you need to go make nominations of different people.  Different people need to be more active, be noticed, socialize, and let their friends know they WANT to be nominated.  Just saying you'd like to see different people is not going to bring about results, you need to go nominate different people on a regular basis.

Kathleen,

I suppose the only real issue here, is you took an Administrative action in a forum you claimed no part of, and you really have no justification.  My goal has been served.  The Photo of the Week participants will no longer be ignored, while asking for help.

Thank you for stating your points:

• I wrote that plan 2 years ago after the 2007 POTY, and was told that it was too difficult and would not be met with welcome.
  Has proven to be basically factual
• If people want to see different members nominated and win, lots of you need to go make nominations of different people. You don't seem to be listening or observing.  No one is submitting new members.  The criteria prohibits many favorites from being nominated, or for that matter to even nominate.  And your response, meet my criteria or don't play.  Then you wonder why no one is playing your game.
• Jim, even though you and I are not on friendly terms,...  We are having a discussion, nothing unfriendly happening here.  My resignation came earlier than planned.  As we have stated before we were done after the POTY anyways.  Admin was aware of this.  Moot point.
• I think the photo contest should be run by someone who has a passion for photography.  I think Roger, will do a fine job, with what will soon become the premier POTW Event.

Enjoyed our chat, have a fantastic Saturday Night!

Jim