eXceem aWards!

[Simon]

Just read a email i got from a4f:

Originally Posted by a4f email

It's been a while since Anything4Free has sent out an email to all 6,000 of our users, and we think it's time for an update! If you have been away from Anything4Free for a while, you might not be aware of what you are missing! It's been a large past year in freebies, with sites launching everything from Free PC's to Free Laptops and XBOX 360's! Anything4Free is proud to announce the 2006 Freebie Awards! We are giving our members a chance to express how they feel about their favorite free sites, and their favorite members! We have categories for almost everything you can imagine, including best support, member of the year, and best overall network! The sites that win awards from Anything4Free will be able to display a seal, showing which free sites have been voted the best by over 6,000 A4F members! We've created a new forum exclusively for the 2006 Awards! Be sure to check in and vote in your favorite polls which you know best! This is a great way to support your favorite site, your favorite site owner, or even your favorite Anything4Free Staff member! In other news, Anything4Free has recently installed a trader feedback database. This new system has retained older positive feedback for users trading referrals, but has also allows for users to leave negative or neutral feedback if a trade doesn't go exactly as you planned. In addition, Anything4Free is planning some exciting new additions, such as a FAQ portion of our site devoted to new users! A4F is also growing rapidly, reaching a traffic ranking of close to 60,000 on Alexa, and posting exciting news updates daily on our frontpage. We encourage you to stop by, take a look around, and vote for the best of 2005-2006 at Anything4Free! We look forward to seeing you on the site, and we hope everyone is off to a great 2006!

So basically i think we should do something similer(*cough*exactly the same*cough*), call it the eXceem aWards! I think last year we voted for member of the year or something, but we need to do more i think. Then we can vote for things like:

network of the year
member of the year
best support
best freebie
spammer of the year (wooo vote me)
best freebie getter (hmmm miles or zara?? )
exceem staff member of the year
worst network of the year (freepay! )
event organiser of the year (*whistles*)

..etc etc..

then we can get some networks to sponser it...and hey presto exceem is buzzing more than ever. I know im a genius, 100% original idea

Thoughts please.

[mozfadz]

Lol sounds good. I got the email too lol, few weeks ago.

[Will]

Nice and original idea, but the best ideas are ones that already work well elsewhere
Will

[Bazza]

Yea got the email too. Sounds great. But I don't think we could have a network sponsoring an awards lol. Have people shouting fix! Also there isnt really anything to sponsor, as its a title on exceem the winners get.

[Emma]

Hmm maybe sounds like a good idea! Will post in staff roomand see what people think!

[Simon]

I think networks can sponser it, im pretty sure we did member of the year once or something and someone got a ipod...

[Miles]

like it alot. could do a special podcast for it

[Simon]

noooooo not another podcast!!

[Amanda]

Just to clarify - ours wasn't just member of the year! We also had loads of categories, network of the year, best site design etc. I reckon a4f nicked it off us!

[Bazza]

lol thieves!

Oh yea I never thought about the awards for exceem members, maybe their could be something as a prize.

[Jon]

to add, wonder why they are emailing all of their members to tell them about this? surly if the site was that popular there would be no need to email everyone about it (unless to many people are joining and not bothering to post, or got bored with it)

the eXceem awards 2006 will be appearing soon, once ive worked out how they will run, and hopefully I should be able to sort a prize without any sponsorship, so it will be 100% un-biased

[Scribbler]

Originally Posted by Amanda

Just to clarify - ours wasn't just member of the year! We also had loads of categories, network of the year, best site design etc.

Yeah, I remember them. Didn't you win something Amanda? Also didn't 'site of the year' go to a site that turned out to be a scam?!?

[Jon]

Originally Posted by Scribbler

Also didn't 'site of the year' go to a site that turned out to be a scam?!?

I don't think anyone could have predicted what freepay were going to do..

[Scribbler]

No not Freepay, it was items4you... and they won the 'gifts offered' award I think.

Nobodys fault as it was decided by voting!

[Freebsterz]

[quote]h2w : "worst network of the year (freepay! )"[quote]

Freepay lol, i know they aint been the best recently but most of us have ended up getting their gifts out of them. and atleast there still ploddin along and getting back on their feet.

i remeber some network owner doin a runner on ere... cough genius lol
if my research is right

freepay are no way the worst atleast they are still going lol

Not to mention Traxio!

[Bazza]

Traxio take the biscuit for me, what a shambles that turned out to be!

[Simon]

I really like freepay tbh, it has provided me with 4 of my freebies and tbh i think the wait was worth it for the camera (got the new model). Also it seems easy to get referals, but having said that going by this year they have been very very very slow so they should defo be nominated!