Thread: Bill's Giveaway Poll for Post Count

Originally Posted by tombuesing

If you're interested in rewarding participation, total # of posts doesn't work well. Someone could have joined fairly recently but be very involved.

I suggest you use the posts per day average. This factors in the time a person has been a member.

For example, adjustme69 averages 1.82 posts per day, urleebird has 1.39 per day, garythepenman has 4.61 per day and randydance has 2.61 per day. Why not use a minimum of 1.00 posts per day?

I think is gives all active members a chance regardless of how long they've been a member.

Tom

This is a great idea. I say 1.00 per day, which does rule me out, but that's ok. I do a lot more reading than contributing since I'm no razor expert! There are people who accumulate many posts, then disappear after a couple of months.
Just my opinion though, good luck to whoever wins!
-Fred

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

I don't know about this. Some people may have just lurked for a year without contributing to the community. However if you have like 200 posts but are a moderator or contributed to the help files, then I'd have no problems with having you on the list.

That is basically what I was trying to say....
You just worded it better.



Terry

Bill,

This sounds like a great idea.


Terry

As I was over at my other house fixing things up to help make it sell, I got to thinkin' again. Damn, twice in a day... I can't take too much of that. Figured I'd come back all proud with the answer and Tom beat me to the keyboard.

I noticed that some guys who I really like hearing from on this forum don't have 400 posts. They have definitely been contributors and I would want to include them. Top of that list that comes to mind is Ed. He should be able to take part.

Before I read any of the threads today, I went through the membership rolls to see if there was a correlation to what I had in mind. I came up with the same thing that Tom did. Seems that one post per day average is a pretty good benchmark... or 400 posts.

Would y'all be in favor of that?

By contributors, I'm talkin' about the guys who take part. and not the peeping toms who only absorb whatever they can without so much as a word to acknowledge everyone elses efforts. On that same note, someone who replies to a thread thanking the guys for the information or say it was something that they will be able to use would be considered a contributor. So, what I am saying is that you don't need to know anything to be a contributor. The guys who continually answer questions over and over are rewarded by that feedback and it's just as necessary as the instruction that was generously given.

So, here we are. I haven't checked out specific dates for starting memberships, but I think I need to focus more on the guys who have been here a while in addition to the post count. So, some of you may have post count of 1 per day, but may not have been here long enough for my original intent.

I'm leaning towards 1 post per day and you have been here since April 1st of this year. Any objections to that?

See... Terry thought it was a good idea before I even said anything...

Bill, whatever you think is fair and you have bought up some very good points.

Gary

Bill,

This is your gig. There's not a guy here who would not love to win that razor. My understanding is that the original intent was to reward a "tenured" member with a great razor, since long time members don't qualify for the razors given away en masse to new members. Personally, I wonder if I should qualify regardless of the number of posts. I use a straight 2-3 times per week. My expertise lies more in brushes, creams and soaps. Followed by DE razors ( gasp!) and then straights. I was well over 100 posts before I had my first complete straight shave. Since you are creating and donating this razor, I believe that regardless of what you decide for the qualifier, no one here would disagree.

RT

It's funny how different people's responses can be.

I'm a newer guy, and I think I'm often a lurker--guilty as charged, although I've chatted with some of you guys on Skype and various instant messengers, and I attend the chats when I can.

I usually don't post non-content replies (i.e. "thanks for the information") unless it's a thread I started, mainly because I don't want someone who's looking for the same information I was looking for to have to filter through all of my thank yous in order to get information.

That's probably weird, and may even come across as rude--so I'll consider what you said: maybe more active thanks are in order.

Personally, I'm in favor of a high standard either in terms of post count or posts per day, and that's speaking as someone who doesn't qualify under either category. Your work is too gorgeous for me to be comfortable trying to win it on a technicality.

I'm just a fan of great craftsmanship, and the giveaway razor certainly demonstrates that. Whoever gets it, it adds to the hobby we all love, so however you decide to determine the recipient is cool. I just wanna be in the drawing, dangit!

Originally Posted by urleebird

See... Terry thought it was a good idea before I even said anything...

Well what can I say Bill? I knew you were thinking
of something and what ever it was, I knew that
it would be a good idea....

Seriously though, something weird is happening.
I posted this reply after your second idea post.
And then there are all these double replies......


Terry