We’re starting a new monthly award for best review! Each month, I’ll post a list of top ten reviews here, to be voted on by anyone in the review community.The details:-Email me your votes at partners @ EF by the 1st of the month.-The winner gets a $50 cash prize. Yes, cash, not a voucher to the store.-When emailing, please send just the name of the review you’re voting for and your contributor name in the text (don’t worry voting is kept anonymous, but I need that info). Yes, you can vote for yourself.-ALL reviews (assigned and not assigned) are eligible for this award.Let me know what you think about this voting process, I’m still experimenting with different ideas for it. Do you want to be able to nominate reviews for the award? Want to have a totally open vote, so any review can be voted for?Sooo… here are the nominations for September. Get votes in by noon on Wed., October 1st.ace-in-the-holewoah-woah-woah-nice-shootin-texi-am-now-a-star-fuckerpulse-me-babyhappy-colors-happy-shape-happy-clitlet-them-eat-cakeexcellent-bang-for-the-bucksexy-educationsomething-fishypretty-hardcore less

What an excellent idea. Very nice compilation of reviews as well. I am honored to be included. Thanks! It is nice to get the reminder e-mail and I think that a poll would be a good way to handle it, but then I suppose it could be a shot to my ego if I was nominated and didn't receive many votes. With e-mail at least the overall results could be kept quiet and you would just say who the winner was. Maybe that could be done with a poll too. less

Congrats to all of the current top ten. I think it's wonderful, and I'm looking forward to reading the reviews. (In about 2 seconds!)To be the devil's advocate here, once again under the current rating system won't this naturally drive up the rankings of all ten reviewers?It may very well be deserved, but was it considered in light of the recent controversy over rankings? less

What's the big deal if the rankings are driven up (which would only happen if people voted on the "useful"ness of the review)? They are obviously good reviews chosen for a reason.I think this is a great idea that will drive people to write some really good reviews, and reward people who do. less

I don't care if quality rankings are driven up. I have an issue with the randomness of the entire process, and I'm surprised that more people don't."Spiking Glue" had a quality review- entertaining, informative, well written, etc. She informed us that her ranking went down. I checked the stats on that review. (Not others she has written.) 12 comments including her own, 6 extremely useful, 1 useful, 1 not useful vote. So why did her ranking go down with this contest?For those of you that read the forum regularly, I want to make one thing clear. I do not give a *shit* about my own rating. I care about the ranking process for what it should be for everyone, and I believe that should reflect quality. Bulma, Jimbo Jones and others deserve a much higher ranking than I have, and I'm happy about that. But there are people who either do not understand this process or who won't fight it.I loved a list of "top ten" review that I should look at. Maybe it should be an option that reviewers themselves can generate. If Bulma, Jimbo Jones, Epiphora created really cool, I'd look. (Time permitting.)What we have now is fucking bias built into the system and caused by Eden. I guess everyone is OK with that. (Probably completely out of this thread.) less

I don't care if quality rankings are driven up. I have an issue with the randomness of the entire process, and I'm surprised that more people don't."Spiking Glue" had a quality review- entertaining, informative, well written, etc. She informed us that her ranking went down. I checked the stats on that review. (Not others she has written.) 12 comments including her own, 6 extremely useful, 1 useful, 1 not useful vote. So why did her ranking go down with this contest?For those of you that read the forum regularly, I want to make one thing clear. I do not give a *shit* about my own rating. I care about the ranking process for what it should be for everyone, and I believe that should reflect quality. Bulma, Jimbo Jones and others deserve a much higher ranking than I have, and I'm happy about that. But there are people who either do not understand this process or who won't fight it.I loved a list of "top ten" review that I should look at. Maybe it should be an option that reviewers themselves can generate. If Bulma, Jimbo Jones, Epiphora created really cool, I'd look. (Time permitting.)What we have now is fucking bias built into the system and caused by Eden. I guess everyone is OK with that. (Probably completely out of this thread.) less