I have been thinking that it might be cool to do a "Forum Person of the Year"
We could take nominations in a nominating thread or privately and then open a poll for voting to all of our registered members. You could vote for the person whose posts you learned the most from, or laughed the most from or whose politics so angered you as to bring you back again and again etc...
I was thinking we could open nominations for one or two weeks and then have another week or two for actual voting. Prizes could be a case of Omaha steaks or an $100 amazon gift card or admission to Chumps association etc...
Any thoughts? My only hesitation is that there might be some cheating with multiple accounts and I don't really want to create too much work.
I have been thinking that it might be cool to do a "Forum Person of the Year"
We could take nominations in a nominating thread or privately and then open a poll for voting to all of our registered members. You could vote for the person whose posts you learned the most from, or laughed the most from or whose politics so angered you as to bring you back again and again etc...
I was thinking we could open nominations for one or two weeks and then have another week or two for actual voting. Prizes could be a case of Omaha steaks or an $100 amazon gift card or admission to Chumps association etc...
Any thoughts? My only hesitation is that there might be some cheating with multiple accounts and I don't really want to create too much work.
Great idea. Build up somebody's ego while building up traffic!!!
I have been thinking that it might be cool to do a "Forum Person of the Year"
We could take nominations in a nominating thread or privately and then open a poll for voting to all of our registered members. You could vote for the person whose posts you learned the most from, or laughed the most from or whose politics so angered you as to bring you back again and again etc...
I was thinking we could open nominations for one or two weeks and then have another week or two for actual voting. Prizes could be a case of Omaha steaks or an $100 amazon gift card or admission to Chumps association etc...
Any thoughts? My only hesitation is that there might be some cheating with multiple accounts and I don't really want to create too much work.
This is about the dumbest idea I've ever heard a web-board owner do. So you want to pit agent against agent to try to determine who is the most popular? Or is it who is the most intelligent? Or is it who is the agent that everyone likes least or hates most?
What does this do for us as a community? It brings us together? It makes for a more cohesive group... one that becomes more accepting of divergent points of view?
No, what it does is help further divide us, it helps to solidify that those who post the most are "right" most of the time... what it does is create splits and divisions in the agent community.
This might be "cool" and "fun" as you see it, but what about all those who are not chosen as "the best." What about all of those who believe strongly in what they believe but who are ridiculed and attacked for those beliefs?
No, Sam. What this is is a nice example of let's see who agrees most with Sam, right? Who is going to be the judge and jury? Me? Yeah, right. In your dreams. It will be you Sam... and why you want to engage in an action that has the propensity and possibility of dividing and creating strife in the online community is beyond my comprehension.
I'll tell you right now who will be the finalists:
John P.
Frank S.
Rick B.
SAI
Chumps
STI
This is a bad idea, in my opinion... which I'm sure is worthless in this venue... but which will probably get me banned for at least short time for expressing it.
This is about the dumbest idea I've ever heard a web-board owner do. So you want to pit agent against agent to try to determine who is the most popular? Or is it who is the most intelligent? Or is it who is the agent that everyone likes least or hates most?
What does this do for us as a community? It brings us together? It makes for a more cohesive group... one that becomes more accepting of divergent points of view?
No, what it does is help further divide us, it helps to solidify that those who post the most are "right" most of the time... what it does is create splits and divisions in the agent community.
This might be "cool" and "fun" as you see it, but what about all those who are not chosen as "the best." What about all of those who believe strongly in what they believe but who are ridiculed and attacked for those beliefs?
No, Sam. What this is is a nice example of let's see who agrees most with Sam, right? Who is going to be the judge and jury? Me? Yeah, right. In your dreams. It will be you Sam... and why you want to engage in an action that has the propensity and possibility of dividing and creating strife in the online community is beyond my comprehension.
I'll tell you right now who will be the finalists:
John P.
Frank S.
Rick B.
SAI
Chumps
STI
This is a bad idea, in my opinion... which I'm sure is worthless in this venue... but which will probably get me banned for at least short time for expressing it.
The Jackass
Wow Al....I'm disappointed!!!! WTF????? Where is my name???????? I better be on that list
I take a few months off to work on some things, pop back on here to do a bit of research, and bam.........
Don't take this the wrong way, but I sure as hell don't kiss Sam's ass. I am.... very thankful that Sam started this forum and I'm also thankful for the invitation Scott made for me to join the group when I had questions when I first started out..........
I have met some wonderful people on here whom I respect personally and professionally....yourself included.......
The direction this forum has gone in the last 2 or 3 months since I last joined in the debates is astonishing and I like what I see.
What is so bad about some friendly competition??????
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[COLOR=#000066]"Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand." Confucius
This is about the dumbest idea I've ever heard a web-board owner do. So you want to pit agent against agent to try to determine who is the most popular? Or is it who is the most intelligent? Or is it who is the agent that everyone likes least or hates most?
What does this do for us as a community? It brings us together? It makes for a more cohesive group... one that becomes more accepting of divergent points of view?
No, what it does is help further divide us, it helps to solidify that those who post the most are "right" most of the time... what it does is create splits and divisions in the agent community.
This might be "cool" and "fun" as you see it, but what about all those who are not chosen as "the best." What about all of those who believe strongly in what they believe but who are ridiculed and attacked for those beliefs?
No, Sam. What this is is a nice example of let's see who agrees most with Sam, right? Who is going to be the judge and jury? Me? Yeah, right. In your dreams. It will be you Sam... and why you want to engage in an action that has the propensity and possibility of dividing and creating strife in the online community is beyond my comprehension.
I'll tell you right now who will be the finalists:
John P.
Frank S.
Rick B.
SAI
Chumps
STI
This is a bad idea, in my opinion... which I'm sure is worthless in this venue... but which will probably get me banned for at least short time for expressing it.
The Jackass
I, personally would have put you in that lot al. There was a point in Mels post that says someone who angers you enough to bring you back again and again. That being said, I always read your posts.
When you are not wearing a tinfoil conspiracy hat, you actually have a ton of insight. For newcomers like myself it is the reason that we come here. I know that you will take this as a shot, it's not meant to be. You have a wealth of expertise and knowledge for us to draw from, but a majority of your posts are just, well, you crying foul.
I would actually hope that you take this as a compliment, and not make another snot snosed kid comment towards me. My point of this post is, I think you would be in the running for an award.
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, IT CAN ACHIEVE
.....This is a bad idea, in my opinion... which I'm sure is worthless in this venue... but which will probably get me banned for at least short time for expressing it. The Jackass
My initial thought is it must be a good idea if Al thinks it is a bad idea.
but a majority of your posts are just, well, you crying foul.
I cried "foul" when I was a boy and joined the Freedom Riders.
I cried "foul" when I black citizens were not allowed to vote.
I cried "foul" during the Vietnam war era.
I cried "foul" during the Watergate scandal.
I cried "foul" on Iran-Contra
I cried "foul" on during the Clinton sex scandal.
I cried "foul" on the Iraq war.
I graduated from Mr. Jefferson's University (U.VA... class of 1969.) What would you have expected of me?
After a lifetime of reading history... and especially on July 4th... "crying foul" is not a bad thing to be doing. Our experiment in democracy was initiated by people who cried foul.
What is so bad about some friendly competition??????
I see nothing good coming out of this... and I replied in kind.
Yes, I've been and will continue to be criticized for my position. However, the owner of the board asked for opinions (read the title of the thread) and I stand by what I wrote earlier.
However, if the owner of this board decides to embark on this path, that is his privilege... and I defend that privilege.
To quote Miss Jean Brodie, "For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like."
This might be "cool" and "fun" as you see it, but what about all those who are not chosen as "the best."
The Jackass
Probably there will be mass suicides. People will read that they have not been chosen and immediately drink the Kool-Aid and this website will end out looking like Jonestown.
LIGHTEN THE FRIG UP AL. MOVE OVER TO THE HEAVY DUTY TIN FOIL AS NEEDED. I AM SURE THAT YOU WILL AT LEAST BE VOTED AS THE FORUM MEMBER MOST LIKELY TO NEED PREPARATION H.
Typical liberal San Francisco reaction. Someone sneezes and immediately your self-esteem is at risk for the next three generations and you want to sue for damages or speak out to protect people who can take care of themselves better than you can. I got a great Californian idea. Let's not only not do this, let's pass a law against it and fund counseling programs for those who have been victimized by it.
Yes we can! Veritas possumus douchebagamus.
Winter
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I'll tell you right now who will be the finalists:
John P.
Frank S.
Rick B.
SAI
Chumps
STI
I want to thank the academy for honoring me with this award. To just be nominated is an honor but to win is amazing. I could not have got to this position without you, the little people, that I have stepped on over the past year.
Tears in my eyes.. For those of you who were nominated but did not win, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Rick
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Training, Community, Support, and Success Independent Life Insurance Agents Assn rick@iliaa.org
LIGHTEN THE FRIG UP AL. MOVE OVER TO THE HEAVY DUTY TIN FOIL AS NEEDED. I AM SURE THAT YOU WILL AT LEAST BE VOTED AS THE FORUM MEMBER MOST LIKELY TO NEED PREPARATION H.
Winter
Why is it that this community attracts a disproportionate number of... what can I call them... the word is over-used here... but there is none more accurate... a$$holes.
Look at what Winter posted? "PREPARATION H"? How much more of a personal attack might one post? This forum seems to attract people who can't work with the general public so they hang here in the hope they can get some self-esteem from others of a similar personality structure.
How else can you explain the constant discord and xenophopic responses we see from so many here... like Winter's above?
Now you know that Sam and I don't agree on much... and don't even like each other much... but I think for the most part we do a good job being civil to each other when we have said disagreements. And I believe that he wanted us to engage in civil discourse in helping him decide if this voting concept was a good one or bad one.
I've responded that it is a bad one. And yet all I get is ridicule... and now scatological attacks.
I don't know why many of you are in the "helping" business. I don't know how many of you survive in this business. I look at the personality of Winter and I wonder if he is just "acting out" here and that in person he is a warm, kind, helpful human being... what I think an agent has to be in order to be successful.
You folks really think that this community is capable of engaging in a beauty contest without it degenerating into a cesspool of plain meanness? I don't see it... and that's why I've expressed my opinion. Men like Winter simply reinforce that view.
Oh, and Winter about the Prep H. I've suffered from "roids" for many years. I know you find that humorous, but I also know that if it had been you, you would not find it so funny. I pass this advice along. Forget the commercial preparations. Instead use something some of you rural folks will know... it is called Bag Balm. Over the many years I've had this affliction I find that BB is the "weapon of choice" for this ailment.
Winter. You must really be a happy guy now. You can make "roid" jokes about me from now until... you actually write a real case and help a real client... which I fear will be a long, long time away.
You're just another malcontent on this list... ready to pounce on anyone they disagree with. You do this well. This seems to be your calling... denigrating people... not helping them. Tell me again why you are in the insurance business?
Why is it that this community attracts a disproportionate number of... what can I call them... the word is over-used here... but there is none more accurate... a$.
Look at what Winter posted? "PREPARATION H"? How much more of a personal attack might one post? This forum seems to attract people who can't work with the general public so they hang here in the hope they can get some self-esteem from others of a similar personality structure.
How else can you explain the constant discord and xenophopic responses we see from so many here... like Winter's above?
Now you know that Sam and I don't agree on much... and don't even like each other much... but I think for the most part we do a good job being civil to each other when we have said disagreements. And I believe that he wanted us to engage in civil discourse in helping him decide if this voting concept was a good one or bad one.
I've responded that it is a bad one. And yet all I get is ridicule... and now scatological attacks.
I don't know why many of you are in the "helping" business. I don't know how many of you survive in this business. I look at the personality of Winter and I wonder if he is just "acting out" here and that in person he is a warm, kind, helpful human being... what I think an agent has to be in order to be successful.
You folks really think that this community is capable of engaging in a beauty contest without it degenerating into a cesspool of plain meanness? I don't see it... and that's why I've expressed my opinion. Men like Winter simply reinforce that view.
Oh, and Winter about the Prep H. I've suffered from "roids" for many years. I know you find that humorous, but I also know that if it had been you, you would not find it so funny. I pass this advice along. Forget the commercial preparations. Instead use something some of you rural folks will know... it is called Bag Balm. Over the many years I've had this affliction I find that BB is the "weapon of choice" for this ailment.
Winter. You must really be a happy guy now. You can make "roid" jokes about me from now until... you actually write a real case and help a real client... which I fear will be a long, long time away.
You're just another malcontent on this list... ready to pounce on anyone they disagree with. You do this well. This seems to be your calling... denigrating people... not helping them. Tell me again why you are in the insurance business?
If the award ceremony included awards for the least popular
Like #1, restricted to 25 posts, # 2 restricted to 35 posts and so forth to include to top/bottom 10. Every decent insurance agent loves contests...keeps things interesting!!
Ahhh, I don't know. I tend to think that Al is right about the Bag Balm being effective. Let's face it, if the guys in San Francisco tell you what is good for a sore bum you gotta believe it has been field tested under grueling conditions.
Good idea or bad idea?
If the award ceremony included awards for the least popular
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