Announcements Response Topic

[Skyblade]

Congratulations to the award winners!

[Melanda MacBurl]

I logged in today and couldn't be more surprised! I'm not sure I've earned this honour, but I'll do my best to live up to it.

[Rosie Willowwater]

Congratulations! *Claps for the People*

[Groddil]

*narrows eyes*

It is still April 1st in some parts of the world.

[Rosie Willowwater]

Congratulations! *Claps for the People*

[Hickory]

So Icefire is on the list of Awardees, but hasn't been active in a while.

I hope we're not giving awards to people based on past actions. Someone who is no longer an active member doesn't deserve an award over an active member.

[James Gryphon]

When we give awards, we're looking to give them out to people that are deserving. In some cases, those members might have done their best work before the awards came along, or before we started passing them out as generously as we have been over the past few months. We feel that retroactive awards are a good way to respect our forum's history and the members that've made our forum what it is today. If you look back at previous award cycles, we've often given awards to inactive members, usually one or two per cycle. This is just the first time there's been so many of them.

[The Skarzs]

. . . Just how long have you known Melanda?

[Groddil]

My guess

Total Time Spent Online:6 hours and 14 minutes.

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[Banya]

Is she a fake account

Sage don't fall for their traps. They've never given an award to an inactive member

There's so much weird stuff going on but my retroactive fomo (the "I wish I'd been there") tells me to stay online

I hate this and am a little shook

[Groddil]

An award? THEY MADE HER AN ADMIN FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.

[Banya]

Grodd we're talking about the awards James gave out to members who haven't been active in 2-4 years

[Groddil]

That too.

[James Gryphon]

We actually have given out awards to members who have been inactive before, even if they weren't inactive for such a long period of time. HiaG and Jasper got awards in the July award cycle, as well as Mhera (albeit not too long after she left). The same with Free Thought. We felt it was time to have some more of them, from further back. Not actually having the RAF made that difficult, but now that it's up for us to look at, it facilitated the process of more retroactive awards.

[Luftwaffles]

You guys are way too paranoid.

Giving awards to those members was heavily overdue at this point, as their contributions to the old forum AND community were simply huge. We might have come a little late to the party for this particular case(s), but that doesn't make any of them any less deserving of the recognition. Chances are they started the topics you like the most or suggested the changes you truly enjoy.

Besides, clumsy manipulation reveals some sort of unearned arrogance ("look how easily we tricked you, look how easy you are to fool"). Putting this up on April Fools was nothing more than a happy accident -which, in turn, allowed for some pretty spectacular fireworks as you all putted on your detective hats-.