Contest Medals

With the dissolution of the old green cube reputation program we have installed a new digital badges and medals system based on the winning of contests within the forum.

Winners of the yearly grand prize will receive a large digital plaque, which is already visible in the member badges of the 2013 Sci-Fi Contest Winners. Winners of the bi-weekly short story, flash fiction, and poetry contests will receive a digital badge for their winning writing.

First time winners get a bronze badge:

Second time is silver:

Third and up are gold:


Each badge will contain as part of the graphic, the contest # that was won. The badges are clickable icons that take any member who has clicked them to a floating window displaying all the awards the member has won and also includes a link for each medal back to the thread in which their winning piece of writing can be read and commented upon.

Over the next week I will be retroactively awarding badges to our past contest winners so that everyone is included, all the way back to Contest #1 when the forum started. I began last night, so you may have noticed some already.

Wrey

 

Thanks for your hard work.

 

@Wreybies deserves a lot of beer and pizza (and bacon - can't forget bacon) for doing this for us!

Big cheers, Wrey!

 

Awesome! Thanks, Wrey T and I can't promise we'll be able to ship bacon your way (might be hazardous materials by the time it reaches you), but you can have a big plateful of e-bacon

 

Just think of all the e-calories!

 

And the e-numbers.

And thanks, @Wreybies. Mods don't get thanked enough. Thank you.

Oh, and did I mention? Thank you, and thanks to anyone else involved in anything mod-like.

Thanks.

 

Yes, that's a great addition to the forum. Good job, @Wreybies.

 

Good job Wrey! These are cute. J.J. Max looks like a literary Olympian!

 

Thanks for the appreciation, folks.

I just finished the Short Story Contests. There are a few sequential skips that were simply accidental skips by the contest admins and two where I could not find the winner for the contest.

As of now @Domoviye is our most decorated member

Now for the poems....

 

Before I continue with the Poetry Contest, and before any hey, maybe you shoulda's, should we use a different medal for Poetry?

It's important to me that there be an aesthetic continuity with anything we choose. I chose the medals that are already awarded mainly for their color palate and texture, which matches well with the Xenforo™ platform theme.

 

I like the idea of a different medal for poetry, same color scheme.

 

You could use different color quills, inkwells, etc.

 

Triangle medals!

 

Olympic athletes get the same medals no matter what sport they compete in...

 

Nu uh! They say their name and the event on each one!

 

I had toyed with the idea of making use of our logo quill as a medal itself. These are roughs I made a while back.

 

I like them but perhaps the poets should decide.

 

The bronze one still looks too brown....

 

I really like these. They're classy.

 

More 'shiny' might be all it needs. Try copper if it's on your palette.

 

As a former 4 time poetry winner, I vote for these.

 

Far as I'm concerned that carries a lot of weight.

 

Hey, just realized you can click the medal or quill - see the story or poem title and follow the link to read it - very cool!