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Posted by: ECOH Cam
Posted by: DefiniteInfinity
Posted by: ECOH Cam
Posted by: dazarobbo
Instead of simply reiterating that it would become a popularity contest, why not suggest a way of getting around that? I'm sure if you put your heads together you could come up with something.
Just to throw something out there for you to start with: what if the community nominated people for us (ninjas) to [potentially] select from?Asking the community to think about, contemplate, analyze, and choose nominees for Forum Ninja would be like asking a dog to speak English. All you're going to get is the same thing you've been hearing.I think the idea is to get the popularity contest out of the way and then have people with experience being a Ninja pick from those popular people someone who's worthy of being a Ninja.Why does the person have to be popular? Take the popularity contest and favoritism out of the picture. Then it sounds like a plausible idea. That's impossible if the community is involved.
That's why if the community nominates, votes, and comes up with, say 25 community members who they think would be good Forum Ninjas (some may be, others my just be popular), the actual Forum Ninjas would take over and pick, say, five of those 25 who they would see fit to be Forum Ninjas from their experience as Ninjas.
The Ninjas act as a filter. Sure, there could be some obscure member who does nothing but lurk and is probably the best possible pick for a Forum Ninja, but I don't think it makes sense to have Ninjas pick people that the community doesn't, in some way, want.
If the community likes the new generation of Ninjas based on their voting and at the same time Ninjas give them the OK, that would be an ideal situation, wouldn't it?