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2013 Community Member of the Year

To qualify for the Member of the Year Award an individual must make significant contributions to the element14 Community.  From submitting complex projects in competitions, offering expert advice to other members or offering insightful suggestions for improving the Community.  The Member of the Year is someone who makes a difference at element14 Community.  Those listed below are the nominees for this year's award, if you'd like to nominate someone not on this list, please submit their username in the comments below along with the reason(s) you think they should win.  The person with the most votes/nominations at end of day, Dec. 6th CT will be selected as the 2013 Member of the Year.

 

To learn more about the nominees click on their names below!

Shabaz, mconnors, Interested1, ntewinke, selsinork, vsluiter, cookieglitch, kuya.marc, mcb1

 

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  • Member of the year? Me? You shouldn't have done that! Oh, you didn't image

     

    Last thursday I got a bit rebellious when I saw the results for member of the year poll. With a recent celebration of 200k members on element14, seeing only 36 reactions on the 'community member of the year' poll seemed to showcase the level of involvement of the members of this 'community' .

     

    0.018% of the members responded!

     

    Well, that's still double the members that responded to the celebration post.... Apparently there's a huge gap between the number of members and the number of active members.

     

    In my rebellious mood I decided to show how easy it is to manipulate a poll with one email to a hackerspace versus a 200k-member community. I sent an mail around midnight to my local hackerspace, Tkkrlab, to ask them to vote for me. Within a day I was able to quadruple my votes, by getting 13 people to vote for me! One of the Tkkrlab members was even so nice to make a second account to cast more votes, which led to a new bug report. Hackers are helping to report vulnerabilities!

     

    Why I got rebellious, and 'frauded' the poll

     

    Technically, I didn't fraud. It's perfectly legal to get people to vote for you in an election. With 227 votes, the Product of the year was a much more popular poll, probably partly due to the Tweeting and Google+ing by Cypress and TI about this.

    The reason I did this, was because I think it deserves attention that while bragging about 200k members, and showing flashy polls, the community as such is not as tight as presented. Of course, most communities exist of a small top layer of frequent contributors and a large user base  that does a lot less, but at element14 I get the feeling that the maintainers and moderators are missing a large, large opportunity here. This is supposed to be an engineering community, but that is exactly where this site is NOT focussing! Whether that's caused by confllicting commercial interest  unfamiliarity with the subject of engineering is unclear to me, The promoted stuff on the front page is tidbits (polls) and commercial (Rpi / Eagle) stuff. Reviews, challenges and interesting engineering discussions get zero-to-nothing attention, where those should be the places this site could excel! Look at the currently runnign PSOC challenge; 15 engineers working hard, and almost no focus / banners on the front page. These guys would love to get reaction from 0.1% of the members!

    A poll like this is like a red flag distracting from 'real' content, and I think I've shown that this is not the kind of 'icing on the cake' that this 'community' is waiting for! Please give us content! Please try to get a community going! Gelmi's project got on hackaday, and got more feedback there (both useful and stupid) in one post than here in the complete challenge!

     

    So who won this election?

     

    There can only be one answer to that: Shabaz!


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    In the picture attached you can see that he had taken the lead in the poll (00:18, 6th of december. No other votes cast except by those I asked for the rest of the day). Although the poll in itself doesn't say that much, he's one of the contributors with a steady flow of very, very well written technical publications, especially in the BBB sections. Next to that, he's very interested in what others are doing, and doesn't shy from contributing his knowledge. To me, you earned the Member of the Year Award, even without a poll!

  • in reply to vsluiter

    Victor Sluiter wrote:

     

    With a recent celebration of 200k members on element14, seeing only 36 reactions on the 'community member of the year' poll seemed to showcase the level of involvement of the members of this 'community' .

     

    0.018% of the members responded!

     

     

    I suggest that next year voting in the Community Awards should be made an Action item so that members see them automatically instead of having to find out about them by accident.  It would be a lot more fun with more participation.

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  • in reply to vsluiter

    Victor Sluiter wrote:

     

    With a recent celebration of 200k members on element14, seeing only 36 reactions on the 'community member of the year' poll seemed to showcase the level of involvement of the members of this 'community' .

     

    0.018% of the members responded!

     

     

    I suggest that next year voting in the Community Awards should be made an Action item so that members see them automatically instead of having to find out about them by accident.  It would be a lot more fun with more participation.

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