GolfHos

So this site made $25 in December from ads, and I was thinking it would be fun to have a contest in January and paypal this amount to the winner.  It's not much, it's worth less than other contests we've had, but it was one of my goals in the beginning was to see if this site could be run like a co-op.

Does anyone have an idea for a good contest?

One idea is a contest to go along with the Mercedes Championship or maybe an NFL contest, but that may exclude folks that have no interest in football and involves some effort from each person to make an entry.

I thought about Most Karma Obtained in January or Most Posts, but those can be easily gamed and would probably be too distracting.

Another possible idea could be a Best Thread in January, where "best" can be interpreted however you want (most fun, poignant, humorous, most helpful, most threadjacked, etc.)  Anyone can nominate a thread, and at the end of the month we throw up a poll and vote for a winner.

We can try one contest this month and if it bombs, try something different next month.

Any ideas?

I also thought about a "Most Exclamation Points" contest, but I think Jules would win, hands down.

Hey, since Blader decided to start smiting me into negative figures for using esclamations, I have stopped using them. (I always had him on a pedestal, as being one of the funniest men on the internet, but now I know he is just a grammar-nazi ;D).

So Blader was the Grammar Nazi!  [sm_shock]

Dys, being incharge of this site, I thought that you would have known. ;D

Aren't you like BigBrother, who can see everything. ;D

LOL, no, I'm more like LittleBrother.  I like to annoy people for attention and pretend I know what others are talking about.
(ask my older sister)

This red hat avatar theme has been fun, what about another theme for next month, to see who can get the best avatar for it. ;D

There was some suggestion that it was me :o

Twoiron, I never suggested it was you.

You mean like 1983 as opposed to 1984??   ;)

Everybody is assuming that there's only one shooter. I believe that there are others lurking in the grassy knoll.

Well he was the one that I caught out. 8)

There probably was others as well.

I second the avatar thing. Best avatar wins.

Actually they're like the dynamic duo: Grammar Man & Tautology Boy

 ;D

I like the best avatar idea.  We'll need a running thread to keep track since some folks change avatars frequently.

i'm down wit dat.  :D

how about most posts in the month ?\
 [sm_devil]

A few of us have a real life. ;D

Ooohh... saucer of milk table 12!...

 :o

Is that you, Kev?

:D

 [sm_shock]

<---- pwned

Best avatar sounds good.

Now where did I put that photo-shopped pic of Jules I had laying around?

That was a suprisingly good pick up. I suspect everyone else here was asleep at the wheel on that one!!

 ;)

Isn't that post too long for it to be him?   :D

:D

Maybe you've noticed that every once in a while he'll have a longer post, though typically in regards to the Vikes or computers.

'Cuz that's the only way he's able to speak of the Queens + winning/playoffs/championships/etc.

(http://www.gamerseliteclan.com/news/Madden%202007.JPG)

I'm in.  Tread, avatar.....whatever.

WTF is an esclamation??!??!??!?!??!??!!!!!!!!!????!!?!?!????????????!!!!!!!?!!?!!?

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It's almost like you're doing this on purpose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So Dys, have you thought of a theme for our next lot of avatars.

Actually, it is the playstation on which he plays MADDEN. :D

Oh, I didn't realize I'd have to put effort into this.  I thought it would just be a free-for-all avatar contest.  Do you have a theme in mind?

Maybe there should at least be some guidelines for the avatars, like no fat chicks or something?? :o

I like the idea of a theme.

What about if everybody throws in a few theme's and you get to pick the theme.

broken down cars.
golf.
tutu's/ballerina's.

You had better make it no fat men as well. ;D

Sounds good.  Anyone else have a theme?

How about a theme each week?  Take the best avatar from each theme and put them up against each other in an end-of-month death match and white sale.

That sounds good.
Come on Clive, pick a theme. ;D

Theme idea:
Picture of what you imagine another GolfHo looks like. (with their name under it)

Okay, how do I put there name under it.

That might possibly require some kind of photoshop type skills, for which I do not have.  I can, however calculate out how much time each of you have wasted using photoshop.... ;) :o

I'm just throwing out the idea in the hopes others throw out more ideas.

(to put text under your avatar, go to Profile and type in something in "Personal Text" and Save.)

Dys, your idea is great.

You must of known, that I would have needed instructions, on how to put a name under an avatar. ;D ;D

In.

I have a theme in mind, but, there are those that might protest.   [sm_hump]

How far??

I think someone here looks like Terry Jacks but I have no idea who.

Which time?

You guys just had to go with Clive and UB didn't you?

There was more than one?

Nah.  That's easy.  I'm goin' for the homerun.

That would be Clive and UB with Jules in the accusatory role!   ;D

Stroh, dude, you didn't put a name under your avatar.

How about a Madden contest. ;)

In to win.

Funny gleek, play ya in Madden sometime so you can see how good the Vikes are. ;) ;D

All right, but I'm not entirely sure what was up wasn't equally as descriptive.

 :D

[opinion] I like this idea, but I think it would play better in it's own thread.  Way funnier that trying to chase avatars, and we can have multiple submissions.[/ramblings of an *bunghole*]

Yeah, I'll create a new thread for this.  Since it's supposed to run the whole month, we'll need a running tally of entries.

LMAO @ the other thread. Since there will likely be too many entries for a poll, at the end of the month everyone will get to nominate one picture, and we'll have a vote on the nominated group.

Agreed LMAO.

Sounds like a plan.

Well, if you're going to start with all the rules and *feces* ...

 [sm_jack]

Yea, not sure what we are allowed to do. Do we actually have to use the picture as an avatar for some time or just flood the thread like stroh, gleek, and myself?

Just flood the thread.  I'm not sure we would have been able to keep track of the avatars as people changed them.

Flood the main ballast tanks, Aye!

Damn the objections, 

full avatars ahead.

LMAO some good ones in there.  At first I was like damn stroh is killin it.  Then spacey and the others offered some good ones too.  Good idea there dys.

Clive, I believe you may have yourself open to litigation, for either the pixelization efforts on the part of your staff are inadequate, or lacking all together.

(http://www.golfhos.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=1661;type=avatar)<-------

I used really, really small pixels.  I thought you'd appreciate the painstaking work, but I see I was wrong.  Typical.