hahahaha

 

something like this can only work well if the decision making is left up to the moderators of the site. No voting, the mods/admin just contact people with nice 8's and do a little write up and if possible photoshoot.

i used to mod for a site back in the day(jdmcivic.com) and we did something similar. we ended up stopping because we got lazy and our admin moved on to bigger and better things(jtuned).

 

here is what we should do:

make a nomination thread. you submit 3 pics: interior, exterior, and engine bay. also a list of your mods.

after a certain number of days, we create a voting thread.

some rules for the thread should be no bashing other people's cars. people should be able to post their cars no matter how bad or stock they are. Mods would have to help us with that rule and such posts should be reported.

the same person should not be able to "win" more than once a year. at the end of the year maybe someone could compile the best pics and make a "best RX8" calendar or something.

 

I was thinking something like;

People would post up a link to an album specifictly for the ROTM. Then we (ROTM crew) would compile a Thread with the pictures we think are the best and post some info about the owners. Then once we got it done, the Thread is open for JUST votes, there would be no other comments besides the person you are voting for. Or if its a poll you vote and post a comment that is meant for all the participants. If you do/dont like a car for whatever reason you keep that to your self. We only want the VOTE not the reason why you chose it. This would hopefully keep all the drama and hate off the thread and make it fun for everyone.

At the end of the month we would name the winner and edit original thread and post up all the good pictures of the winner and more info about him. Then i would send the prize along with anything anyone would like to donate.

We could possibly start some shirts or something, local guy works at a place that does that and he could make good designs! 3DZukini lol

Rules would be;
1. Must show front,side,rear,engine bay, and interior. + participants choices.
2. Keep personal comments to each other and no poking fun of other participants.
3. Have fun
4....
5....
IDk any others??
Hopefully have it where when you post in that Thread you have to follow rules and it be nice to have a moderator that would enforce them rules.

 

i think we could give it a crack again .

 

have you been to the best looking wheel thread
what's the point of it anyway?
how about a "who got the best rx8" then everyone will reply..
me
me
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i am interested to see how this will turn out. it can be fun

 

Do It!!

 

can i post my VS version 2?....it wasnt around long

 

^^^ no, I think it would be relevant that you actually currently own the car Chris...

 

If it were a bracket system, Lets say you made it to the sweet sixteen, then you would not be eligible for nomination for 6 months that would cut down on the same cars everymonth as well...
Nukes ideas seem to be the best so far... 4pics might be reasonable as well front 3/4 exterior, rear 3/4 exterior, engine day, interior....

 

There are so many killer RX-8s here it may be tough. I also think it works better in other automotive forums that have more than just one model car.

 

I think a bracket system would get too complicated if we end up getting odd numbers or a lot of participants.
I had another idea, scrap the whole user votes thing and have it where we keep 10 or more judges that want to do this right. Then if you would want to become a judge you would need 1/3rds of the current judges votes to let you in.
This would hopefully make it so we can get good votes with out being biased. I would like to be one of the judges so if anyone else would like to be one please say so. If this idea works will grab the first 10 or so people and try out the first month. If the judges are bad you can challenge them and possibly change roles. Also if ROTM don't work first month we can change rules and the way its held.

 

1.Your gonna get a ton of participants anyway
2.hahaha everyones gonna be a judge eventually and that will just turn into the same thing the 'best wheels on a RX8' thread turned into, everyone voting for thier own car.
3.Everyone will challenge the judges. If you have 10 judges or so you have, what? about 1.000 people that are gonna be in contention, eventually all votes will be void because they will all get vetoed out...

I want this to work as well as you do but that idea is just asking for trouble...

 

Have a Voting day, each user can vote once and not for their own car.

Then, have the mods count the votes to pick the top 5 then start a poll. Easy.

 

judges will not work. it should be the people's pick.

 

well there is people saying that if we leave it to the people to vote then there gonna be biased and what not. then there is people that want mods todo it, and im sure mods dont want the extra work to do and run this.. so have 12 judges is like an even. the judges can speak with each other and come up with a nominee.

 

let the people decide. how is that biased? mods won't have anything to do with it except handling flametory comments.

 

yeah how are the judges going to be any less biased than the people

 

I don't know, it seems kind of pointless to me. Anyone who participates will be a regular and I bet we can all name the 12 people off the top of our heads that will win for the first year (maybe not in order, so that would be the only real surprise). I think that is another reason it failed before.

 

how about we take off the mod list and just base it on pics? that way you have to guess and it would encourage people to take nicer pics to show what they have.

 

Well if we have the same 12 people judge them all then it will be more of an equal level through out the year. Unlike you have 50 people vote one month, then 80 another. Cars will be judge differently by different people.... But w.e..
And i did NOT intend to do it on the MODS only. As its a Mazda Rx8 of the Month not a Mazda Modded Rx8 of the month. Pretty much anyone with a nice looking car (Good pictures are the real thing we look at) all stock could beat a poorly done modded Rx8..
And so what if they are regular, I am merely doing this for fun so we can have a cool place to show case each others Rx8s and maybe some little bragging rights for the month. At end of year out of the 12 winners we could pick a Rx8 of the Year or something.

 

So it would really be photo of the month? More of a photography contest?

 

what i mean when you do something like this you got to have a good photo. otherwise it be pointless cause if picture sucks it will be hard to see what the car really looks like.

 

this already is failing, first we went with RX8 of the month, now your excluding the mod list, and now its just pic of the month that happens to have an 8 in it,,, Well DonJuan and Altspace congrates on Jan and Feb,,,,