A few good ideas came out of this thread. First of all, monthly is too much. At most, quarterly, or biannually. There simply aren't enough cars for a monthly deal, it dilutes it too much. After a few months, it's meh. Fewer winners, it comes a bigger deal. It'll help you with prizes too; once a month is a bit much. Instead of nominating cars, that's all well and good, but you should have a few wildcards of your choosing (we trust you, besides it's your website, you're entitled) that you select from the garage to balance it out, a few of these months had me scratching my head. I suspect we'll get a much better balanced competition that way, right now its more a popularity contest rather than about the cars. I would keep the owners of the cars anonymous, as much as you can anyway, with the understanding that you can't write about the owner in the thread, just the car. The owner could still talk up his/her car, they just couldn't put their name on it. Yes, a fair number of us would know who's car is who's, but that's not the point, many others wouldn't, and as long as people who do know kept it to themselves, it would make for a much better vote IMHO. Categories would be good too. This would work if you did it quarterly--i.e. maybe classic MINIs one quarter, Countryman one quarter, Modded R53's one quarter, Show quality R56's another, etc. Or you could combine R53's/R56's into one category and/or add a few other categories together, and go every six months, a summer/winter type thing. It would be nice to have a classic MINI competition only at some point though, maybe make an exception and have a seperate one for those when things are slow. The thing is, once a month, it's really not so "special", it's too frequent and dilutes it too much. I suspect implementing some of the above will prevent, or at least minimize, future conflagrations. And I think the whole process would be much more fun, and mean more to the winners.
This is great. Thank you. So often we get an idea and run with it and don't see ways to make it better until someone else presents ideas. Your post has been printed and is on my How to revamp MOTM brainstorming flip chart.
I just have ONE question. If this is a good idea now, how come it wasn't when I suggested it, way back last December? :lol::lol: Jim
Probably because I was focused on my plan and come hell or high water it was gonna work. Welp....hell visited.
Do you ever get tired of playing the forum martyr? Nathan - My only suggestion would be bringing it back on a less frequent time period, perhaps quarterly.
It just seems to me "one person" crys EVERYTIME something does not go his way and a thread gets closed. Some people need to get thicker skin or stay off the Internet.
Got to be careful with what you say, you don't know who's sitting on the other side of the computer screen.
Here is a thought: Feb - Hardtop/Clubbie April - Verts June - Roadsters August - Coupe October - Classic December - CM/PM January - All the winners from the previous months compete for M/A MOTY award Could do some type of prize each month or one big prize package for MOTY. Could also change up the timing so that MOTY would be announced during MOTD.
Hey Nathan, how about allowing voting on which is your favorite MINI/mini but not allowing for additional posting. A voting poll only. The one with the most votes wins. No words just pictures.
:cornut: That's the handsomist and most intelligent MINIac that I'm aware of on this entire site.:wink::eek6::lol::lol::lol: Jason
Thank you Jim. Nobody else listens to me either, so I'm use to it, but it is nice to e loved. :lol::lol: Jim
So if MOTM is over (for now) does Blue Brit get to stay on the home page forever?:biggrin5: I really didn't know there were prizes until 2 weeks ago. Kill the prizes. It should just be for the little badge under your name.(bragging rights) Or at most maybe a little MA MOTM sticker for your car.