Why don't we have a ROTM
 

seems like every forum i have been on has a ride of the month. Could we maybe consider getting one of these going? anyone have any thoughts on this?

mods feel free to chime in

I'm a fan. They do it on the chevy duramax forum I'm on. My truck won once!! Pretty cool!

it doesnt have to be for anything more than like a sticker or a little avatar that says "ROTM mar, 2012" or something along those lines. i think it would jsut be some good fun competition and a way to showcase all your hard work.

could also be something for people to look forward to every month. I.E. having a theme every month ("Jan ROTM theme: Urban environment")

IDK just a thought

they did it the same way, each month was a different theme to keep it fair for the owners who arent quite as dedicated to modding but still spend time on the forum.. heres a link to the month I won. June ROTM POLL! Trucks on the move - Chevy and GMC Duramax Diesel Forum I am smokin'LMM on that forum

We don't have ROTM because if we did? There wouldn't be any Z's on it. It would be 5.0 brembo pkg, corvette, camaro S2000's, lotus exige and everything else, 11 out of twelve months... Z's aren't worthy for car of the month.

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y u mad?

:werd: why so serious?

Good idea. But I think it would need to be spearheaded by general members. There isn't enough mod staff on hand to run it, so it'd have to be someone managing entries, voting, etc.

I nominate edub370 :D For his services, he can also have the very first ROTM for March 2012. I'll take every month prior to that.

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HAHA does anyone who has a lil extra time on their hands wanna take the reigns on this??

maybe mods could give a pinned subsection in "Nissan 370Z Photos / Spyshots / Video / Media Gallery" for this

Here's your ROTM

For anyone who wants to run this process is simple:

Right now make a submission period for 1 week. Then make a poll so people can vote on those submitted. The results will become car of the month in April.

In april repeat the process with submissions/poll for May ROTM.

The only issue is the amount of submissions you may receive. I wouldn't want a poll of 50 cars so I would cap it at 10 maybe. And not let people submit 2 months in a row. How to select the 10 is a different story. Maybe make each month a category (only cars with front lips, only yellow, or only those with custom wheels, etc.)

^^ thats some good ideas there. now to find someone willing to take this on.

Anyone interested???

i think they should just do a random ROTM. people with stock cars may never win if it's just a poll... and it's not fair to them even though they own the same car and might be a premium member.

should be like a random selection and the winner can explain about the mods they did or what they like about the car, wat can be improved, etc.

:tup: I think my local Z club does it this way. Seems to work fine too. They have a nice interview sections:
1. why did you buy this car
2. what do you like most about it
3. current mods
4 future mods
etc.

If I could manage everything my my iPad Tapatalk app I would be willing to take on the responsibility. I can don't from my computer at night, but I'm always on my iPad so that would be much easier. Either way, let me know :)


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:tup: good simple questions too. i likes.

reported for spam! :mad:

;) jk

but, wat did you say? :confused: huh?

i think a random car selection wouldn't get people as excited about seeing the new ROTM theme for that month or something. ya everyone won't be eligable for all ROTM's, but nothings to say there can be a "stock ROTM" at some point.

I think setting up different themed months could help eliminate the same cars always winning or always being up for ROTM. and like Zman said, not allowing people to submit twice in a row and things of that nature could be helpful

the winner should buy all the members charburgers and cheeze fries. :yum:

An idea to help give you a long term guidance on ROTM is each months winner, plus maybe second place(?), will be eligible for that years ride of the year contest. Give people something to strive for each year, not just winning a single month but how the car is for a whole year v. others.

this is why you do different themes. Some examples of what iv seen in the past, stock cars, certain colors, 19" wheels, 20" wheels, slammed cars only, nismos only, and so on..

hummmm... i donno. the thing with modded cars is i dont agree with the mods often times and that car representing the forum i visit the most, not sure.

yah, i suppose if you have different themes that's cool. :tup:

well, dont visit then.

oh wait, that's my post. :icon17:

Why not make "Ride of the month" for the MODDED cars and "Car of the week" for Non-Modded? Sounds fair to me.

i like the ROTM winners being eligable for ROTY. i see kenchan's point about modded cars always winning, but i also agree that the different catagories could prevent this from happening.

example:

"This months ROTM theme will be cleanest stock ride" (caters to stock cars)
"This months ROTM theme will be your Z in action" (caters to either)
"This months ROTM theme will be slammed z's" (caters to heavily modded cars)

sounds good! :tup:

Who is going to organize all of that?

huck, if you are willing to do it, then i thnk we would all be supportive of you taking the lead on it.

just need mods to make us a little section of maybe "rotm submissions" and "rotm past winners"

Ok sounds good, I'll shoot them a pm and see what they say about it. If you guys want you could throw me suggestions at the beginning of the month as to what theme to pick for the month and then I'll choose one.


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keep us updated on what the mods say we can do.

I will have a few suggestions when the time comes to set it up :tup:

Just sent them a pm, we'll see what they say :)


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Just out of curiosity, how do people handle the rejection on other forums? If every time a winner is announced people start piping up about how it’s BS, that someone else should have won, etc., then I don’t think AK would really want it here. AK and drama don't jive :icon17:

From my experience on the chevy duramax forums, everyone was quite fair.. Cant argue with the polls!

On my local forum everyone is very nice and chimes in with "well deserved" , "congrats", "very nicely done", etc. However, this is local where most of the guys know eachother offline.

IMO, we just need to make it clear that this isn't a "my car is better than yours" competition/poll. It's more about every month selecting one individual to honor his or her efforts with his or her car. This can be honoring someone for their modding efforts, their picture taking efforts, etc. depending on the theme of that month. The idea is that if there are 10 candidates 9 did not get "rejected".

Plus if the poll is public I can't see how people will start calling BS. Cant argue with the majority.

If you guys think this would be a big issue, however, here's an idea:
Make the ROTM random - If it's possible, to select out of only those who have at least X amount of posts min. and have logged in at least X amounts of times last month. I would rather this thing be about the some what active users of the forum.

This is a cool concept. There are so many awesome Z's on this site, modded for looks, performance, or a little bit of both. It'd be nice to see some friendly competition spark up.

Agreed. i dont think anyone can call bs or argue polls out of a majority rule. plus our forum seems to be pretty reasonable with public polls. if someone were to say "this is bs", they would have no grounds to stand on with that claim. i think some friendly competition would be good

IT is one of the things that's one the list that we will start later this year. The winner should receive a license plate frame that says something like "Ride of the Month November - THE370Z.com" etc. It will be something I'll "try out" first and see how it goes because as frost said, I don't want any drama or want this extra activity to cause more issues than the good. So, yes, keep your eyes open for announcement LATER this year. There are some nice Zs on the forum that deserve the honor.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The370...8603179&type=3

However, I'm ALWAYS looking for new Zs to showcase on your facebook page. I used to change them daily but being busy, I can probably update them weekly. Just send me a pm or email with the picture or link to your journal thread on the forum

Thanks