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You must admit, ED is becoming a crap hole. As shown in the pic below.

Now of course these were decided by me which leaves you folks without decision. Sure they were based on my own opinions. Chances are though that the majority of you would agree with at least half of these.

The Red ones don't belong in ED in my opinion
The Blue ones do in my opinion

And remember, its my opinion. I will propose something to fix that little problem by the end of this thread.



So what do I propose? Extended Discussion Awards which are voted in by us in this guild. All we do is we nominate them and have different categories like:

The Best in Trolling (the lovable trolls, not that Astral Projection guy)
Most Discussion Generated
Most Original to Date
Best in Politics
Best in Science
Best in Religion
Best in Morality
Best in Sociology
Best in Psychology
The Best of the Best
Most Informative
Most Convincing Argument
Best in Satire
Best Argument Ever Made


So who's up for it? Find a thread you like in ED and its subforums? Do tell! Nominate whatever. We vote for it. If you guys like this idea then I'll get started on making the Awards...

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Well I personally think this idea will cause the opposite effect. Some people who see this will want to win it, after all most people want to win something, and by that affect on people, many of the forums that you hate will pop up. Even though you came up with this idea to prevent them, they will be popping up in a slim chance to win this contest. But in despite of what I said, I think this is a good idea, and it would grant ED II a little more purpose when making forums, and debating in them.

Also ED may be a crap hole but ED II is awesome. Also I wasn't in ED but I was in ED II, perhaps there is a correlation with those two facts. 3nodding

I never disagreed with that some people would use it as an incentive to make a better thread, in fact I did state it would give more purpose in making threads. I'am just saying its going to go both ways, by making more sub par threads, and more good threads. Unless your saying that its impossible or highly unlikely for people to make a sub par thread in the chance to win an award, and if thats the case I disagree. Ex, the gaia gold award system, there are many threads around gaia for the soul purpose of bumping and posting the pointless in order to get the free gold awards.

Interesting idea.

It could honestly go horribly wrong or horribly right. Although I'm sure ED can't get much worse than it has been the past few days, so it's worth a shot. The only foreseeable problem is that some will get angry that their threads don't win. But since when has making someone angry been something ED cares about?

Would this be a one-time deal? Or would it be annual/monthly/weekly/etc.?