How do we as a forum want to handle "well" posts.

a. Remove all restrictions on "well" creation. Let anyone start a “well” anytime they like.

b. Create a monthly well nomination thread/poll. “Ask me about this” threads will be included as a matter of course.

c. Keep the “well” procedure the way it is now. “Ask me about this” threads will be included as a matter of course.

The poll will remain open for seven days.

Buzz

i think a monthly well poll would be nice...i dont think it should HAVE to be a new well though...i would love to get PRED, AJB4 and other wells to do another well. im sure they have more to offer since their last well

then it would be a well redux for people like them

I 2 would love to see Pred do another well. Briefly browsing some of his vids; dude knows how to articulate his ****.

Looks like wells are going to become a popularity contest. If we catch about half the forum on tilt and get someone with a slightly twisted sense of humour to start my poll, I might get a well after all.

Possibly.

Assuming choice b wins, here’s how I envision the monthly well nomination/poll thread working:

• I or someone else will start a thread the first of every month, asking for nominations to host a well for that month.

• If anybody has a nomination for someone to host a well, please p.m. the person you’d like to see host the well in order to secure their agreement to host the well.

• Once you’ve secured someone’s agreement to host a monthly well, post your nomination in the monthly well nomination/poll thread.

• Someone will need to second your nomination, in the monthly well nomination/poll thread.

• At that point a moderator will double check with the person nominated and seconded to make sure he/she wants to be in the poll and agrees to host the well for that month.

• The second week of the month, starting the second week of March, 2010, a moderator will post a poll listing all those nominated and seconded for that month as candidates.

• The poll will run a few days. The candidate with the most votes will host the well for the remainder of that month (starting March 2010).

• The nominator or the person seconding the nomination should start the well with a brief introduction and a question or two.

• Only one person will host a well for any given month. Former well hosts are eligible to host a new well if they agree. The monthly well will be made a sticky for the first week of the month.

Or we can do it some other way if you like. (Truthfully I don’t care how we do it). If you think you have some better procedure to implement the poll choice, or an improvement in the procedure, please feel free to post your idea in this thread.

"Ask me about this" threads were always allowed, were never an issue (Trelskig hosted one last December), and will continue to not be an issue. But if a thread looks like a "well" to me... assuming choice b wins, as co-moderator, I'll abide by the majority decision.

I don't expect a last minute surge, but we'll wait until Tuesday night before the poll is over.

If anyone has a better way to implement the will of the forum than my plan as stated above, feel free to speak up. We can change the procedure at any point if someone comes up with a better plan or a pragmatic modification. (But I think the way I outlined it above will probably work for us).

Buzz
as co-moderator

Outline seems largely reasonable, but IMO we should remove the requirement that the initial nominator checks by PM with the nominee. If mods are going to check first that nominees are okay about being added it seems redundant, and I'm willing to bet it'd discourage some people from throwing out names, either due to shyness about PMing or just not getting round to it.

My intention is to implement the poll decision of forum members, whatever it is, with a practical, workable system - and a system that is reasonably easy for the moderators to handle.

You are correct that the requirement is redundant. But the requirement to assure the nominee wants to host a well will cut down on nominating those who don't want to host a well. And it makes my job easier. An alternate procedure would be to have a list of those who want to be excluded from nomination to host a well.

Not everyone wants to host a well, and not everyone wants to be included in a poll. While I greatly appreciate those who are willing to host a well, I also respect the decisions of those who choose not to host a well.

Perhaps you see that as a bad thing.

Buzz

I think the 1st new monthly well should be StrikR300...if hes on the poll he has my vote..i dont think hes done a well yet has he?

StrikR300 hasn't done a well yet.

If somebody seconds the nomination, I'll put his name on the poll ballot for April.

My intention was to have everybody wait for the poll nomination thread the first week of March, but it's not a big deal. We can start the nominations and secondings in this thread, have a well host ballot ready by the second week in March and get things rolling sooner if we like. The first week of the month for nominations, a few days for the poll, and the rest of the month for the monthly well would work. If there are no objections, I'll amend my original plan.

Buzz

I'll second that nom, I like a lot of what he has to post

OK. Assuming he agrees to host a "well" (Have either of you checked with him?) he'll be one of the candidates on the ballot for a potential March "well."

Buzz