DT applicant voting system

[resurepus]

Introduction:

This post is a brief overview of how the "Attention All Members: _____ needs your votes!" threads work. You may have already seen them in this section and there may actually be several of these up right now. What follows is a breakdown of the system being implemented with these threads.

Basic Idea:

Motivated by our recent "nice work" discussion, we’ve decided that it would be fair for Design Team applicants to be voted upon in terms of their (hopefully meaningful) interaction with others on the forum. Therefore, once a designer has applied to the Design Team via the usual application form and has proven to meet or exceed our standards for Design Team members with his/her portfolio, that designer will be subject to the voting system described below.

More Details:

The voting begins when a thread titled, "Attention All Members: _____ needs your votes!", is posted in the Announcements section; naturally, the blank will be replaced with the username of some DC forum member. Within this newly created thread, users will find a poll-question along the lines of, “Has this forum member contributed positively to your DC experience?” If you believe that the answer is yes, then vote “Yes”; otherwise, you should vote “No” given, of course, that you’ve seen at least a few of the member's posts and strongly believe that there has been no such positive contribution.

Please Vote:

The results of these polls will strongly affect the final decision about the Design Team application in question. Therefore, we stress the following:

a. Voting is vital – If you’re not already on the Design Team, then chances are that you too may be voted upon at some point. Please extend the courtesy of voting to others, remembering that you would surely have them do the same for you!

b. We encourage all applicants to keep this voting system in mind at all times; not just before and during, but also after the application process – If your skills are enough to get you through the Design Team door, then we would certainly appreciate it if you could share some of those skills with the rest of the forum members. Be it in the form of an occasional critique or a bit of inspirational work, your contributions to DC will help make it a better place.

Best of luck to all applicants, and thank you for voting!

Important:_______
Please note that, while this voting process is vital to becoming a Design Team member, it does not serve to undermine the required skills that are presented in a designer's portfolio. One should not expect to enter the Design Team based on forum participation alone.
note: the original thread was flooded with offtopic messages and it had to be closed, but if you are still interested you can find it here.

[magaly]

I hope this is the right place to post a question but - I was interested in joining this site for the contests. It wasn't until I saw heavy forum participation was a requirement that I sort of lost myself.

I thought you just needed forum posts to guarantee the person trying to join isn't a bot. Now seeing this confuses me a little. The requisites on the principal site say you need to have 10 recent forum posts but here it says members vote depending on whether or not the person has affected the community in a negative or positive way since they've been here. If you are required to post to the point where you affect someone's experience on the forum, why is the post requirement to join the DT so low on the main page? Shouldn't the minimum say something closer to "a minimum of 100 total posts, 10 being within the past 2 months" to both guarantee recent activity and know they've been here long enough to make a mark?

I hope all that made some sense and someone can answer that for me. :{
If forum participation weighs that heavily, I don't know if I'll ever be able to join contests here haha. I am not too good with post consistency on forums, I am on too many.

[guetizo]

Magaly,

yes it makes sense what you wrote, but 100 posts is too much.
A 10 quality posts is enough for us (mods and admins) to verify if the user qualifies or not to become a DTM (DesignTeam member)
Remember that a strong quality portfolio counts too.
Who have all those factors combined has a good change to be a DTM and particpate in the paid contests.

Oh... also, there is some CC's (Community contests) and Non-Profit/Charity Contests where you can participate. Not one at the present moment but they will come soon.

Feel free to browse around..

Paulo

[machineman]

I'm ready to start voting.