Coming Soon: PF Member Awards 2015

[Greg Bernhardt]

The often imitated but never duplicated PF Member Awards are coming back for 2015! The PF Member Awards have been hosted for 13 years. It's a popular vote where the community votes for their favorite nominee. These nominee's have been selected by staff for their outstanding contributions throughout the year.

This year we are excited to unveil 3 new categories:
1. Guidance Counselor Award
2. Insights Writer Award
3. Top Insights Article Award

Public polls open on December 16th and will close December 30th. Award ceremony will be held on Jan 2nd.

You have 13 days to make an impression. Go!

 

[Drakkith]

I remind all nominees of the time honored tradition of bribing your favorite mentor with fish and christmas gifts in the back alley for more votes... I also accept visa, mastercard, and firstborns...

 

[Strum]

Where's the list of the rest of the categories?

 

[davenn]

Where's the list of the rest of the categories?

They will all be shown in a thread as a poll, once the voting is openedD

 

[CrackerMcGinger]

I remind all nominees of the time honored tradition of bribing your favorite mentor with fish and christmas gifts in the back alley for more votes... I also accept visa, mastercard, and firstborns...

Would you like the firstborns delivered by Fed X or Amazon airmail? But I'm guessing that bribing someone will make you ineligible for being nominated. Am I correct?

 

[berkeman]

Where's the list of the rest of the categories?

Here's a link to the 2014 winners, showing the categories...

EDIT -- forgot the link https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/2014-pf-member-awards-winners-ceremony.790424/
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[OmCheeto]

Here's a link to the 2014 winners, showing the categories...

Oh! So Mentors are eligible for the prizes this time around. That's nice.

 

[berkeman]

Oops, forgot the link. I edited it back in now...

And no, current Mentors are not eligible

 

[Orodruin]

And no, current Mentors are not eligible

Except for the "Banhammer 2k+ category" which we all share. :)

 

[phinds]

STILL no category for grumpiest? Well, bah humbug !

 

[Orodruin]

STILL no category for grumpiest? Well, bah humbug !

Would it even require a vote?

 

[phinds]

Would it even require a vote?

I should hope not! That's why I want it as a category. It's damned hard staying as grumpy as I am and I think I should get an award for it.

 

[Orodruin]

I should hope not! That's why I want it as a category. It's damned hard staying as grumpy as I am and I think I should get an award for it.

That's the grumpiest thing I have heard since I heard myself grumpying over the fact that being a mentor disqualified me from the newcomer award last year!

 

[Bandersnatch]

STILL no category for grumpiest? Well, bah humbug !

You may never be granted the pomp and the fanfare, but know thee that your award is duly bestowed and forever ensconced in our hearts.

 

[ZapperZ]

We should have a category on favorite crackpot. It will be the toughest category because one has to catch all the gems being posted by the crackpot before they are summarily deleted and before the crackpot was snuffed out of existence from PF.

The winner will have their screen name embossed on a picture of a cracked pot, and with the Ghostbusters slash across it. It will be prominently displayed in the PF hall of shame (oh, you didn't know that we have one?).

Zz.

 

[UncertaintyAjay]

PF hall of shame

Not sure what to make of this.

 

[dlgoff]

We should have a category on favorite crackpot. It will be the toughest category because one has to catch all the gems being posted by the crackpot before they are summarily deleted and before the crackpot was snuffed out of existence from PF.

The winner will have their screen name embossed on a picture of a cracked pot, and with the Ghostbusters slash across it. It will be prominently displayed in the PF hall of shame (oh, you didn't know that we have one?).

Zz.

You'd win that one hands down.

 

[Evo]

You'd win that one hands down.

Uh, did you just call Zz a crackpot?

 

[dlgoff]

Uh, did you just call Zz a crackpot?

NOOOO! From my experience here at PF, Zz is the crackpot and troll detector.

 

[Evo]

NOOOO! From my experience here at PF, Zz is the crackpot and troll detector.

Lol, I know.

 

[Borg]

We should have a category on favorite crackpot. It will be the toughest category because one has to catch all the gems being posted by the crackpot before they are summarily deleted and before the crackpot was snuffed out of existence from PF.

The winner will have their screen name embossed on a picture of a cracked pot, and with the Ghostbusters slash across it. It will be prominently displayed in the PF hall of shame (oh, you didn't know that we have one?).

Zz.

There is a secret crackpot fan club. Some of us have been archiving them before they get deleted.

 

[berkeman]

You could NEVER keep a secret!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Polls open in one week!

 

[Borg]

You could NEVER keep a secret!

Just the ones that matter.

 

[PWiz]

You have 13 days to make an impression.

If someone didn't catch the attention of others in a year, I doubt some last minute campaigning would do them any good

 

[OmCheeto]

If someone didn't catch the attention of others in a year, I doubt some last minute campaigning would do them any good

pfft! Always worked for me.

 

[phinds]

If someone didn't catch the attention of others in a year, I doubt some last minute campaigning would do them any good

Well, I don't know. I'm thinking about being PARTICULARLY grumpy for the next 2 weeks.

 

[OmCheeto]

pfft! Always worked for me.

Though, I'm having a bit of mind-fog at the moment, trying to determine the polar notation for a spheroid, where x = y.
Perhaps I should find myself a helpful mathematician, and vote for them.

I hear that Einstein once had to go to the lengths of marrying one.

But, as Meatloaf once alluded to; "I'll do anything for science, but I won't do that".

 

[PWiz]

Perhaps I should find myself a helpful mathematician, and vote for them

Hmmm, @micromass is the first one to come to my mind... but he has most probably won a dozen PF awards already

 

[OmCheeto]

Hmmm, @micromass is the first one to come to my mind... but he has most probably won a dozen PF awards already

It now a moot matter. I engaged my brain for a few seconds, and figured it out myself.

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Well, ok. Wiki gave me the answer. But now I can go figure out something. Maybe next year, I'll have another maths problem.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

3 days! I can't wait!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Tomorrow the polls open. Last chance to browse last year's polls
https://www.physicsforums.com/forums/pf-member-awards-2014.243/

 

[PWiz]

Tomorrow the polls open. Last chance to browse last year's polls
https://www.physicsforums.com/forums/pf-member-awards-2014.243/

Aren't these things archived?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Aren't these things archived?

Only the past year

 

[dlgoff]

0 days! I can't wait!