View Poll Results: Should the Second Generation Ram section have a Truck of the Month contest?
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From: South Georgia/East Florida
If I might make a suggestion, I'd limit the NOMINATIONS to the first seven people who get nominated, then pair it down to the first four of those who ACCEPT.
I think four in the poll is plenty, five at the most.
Also, I'd put in a stipulation that a winner cannot get nominated for a calendar year after the month he wins. This way, the same killer truck doesn't win month after month...
I think four in the poll is plenty, five at the most.
Also, I'd put in a stipulation that a winner cannot get nominated for a calendar year after the month he wins. This way, the same killer truck doesn't win month after month...
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From: Colorado
On a side but related idea, I always thought it would be neat to do something like a Modification of The Month. The idea is to have a poll not based on voting on someones entire ride, but just on one single modification they've done. Back when we where doing TOTM, I remember people complaining that they would never get nominated because their truck was mostly stock and couldn't compete with the highly modded rigs. So this competition would throw that out the window and let you showcase just one cool thing you've done to your truck. Everyone could participate in that.
I envision that we would have people submit to the section mods a cool modification they've done that they want to showcase. The mods would vote on the top 5 or 10 or something to be entered into the competiton. Each entrant would then provide a brief description of what the modification was, why they did it, how it works, etc... Then the rest of us get to vote on a winner.
It has some side benefits for the forum that a regular TOTM doesn't have. One I already mentioned is that everyone could participate, not just the guys with really nice and highly modified rigs. Another would be that you would get to see a bunch of neat modification ideas all presented in one thread. That would be very interesting to see I think. It could help spark a lot of discussion about interesting modifications, and might prompt people to discuss stuff they've done that they did just because it fixed something for them, was a good idea, saved them money, etc... That would in turn help others who might have the same need and just never thought of a good way to fix it.
Anyway, just thought I would toss that log into the fire and see if it burns.
I envision that we would have people submit to the section mods a cool modification they've done that they want to showcase. The mods would vote on the top 5 or 10 or something to be entered into the competiton. Each entrant would then provide a brief description of what the modification was, why they did it, how it works, etc... Then the rest of us get to vote on a winner.
It has some side benefits for the forum that a regular TOTM doesn't have. One I already mentioned is that everyone could participate, not just the guys with really nice and highly modified rigs. Another would be that you would get to see a bunch of neat modification ideas all presented in one thread. That would be very interesting to see I think. It could help spark a lot of discussion about interesting modifications, and might prompt people to discuss stuff they've done that they did just because it fixed something for them, was a good idea, saved them money, etc... That would in turn help others who might have the same need and just never thought of a good way to fix it.
Anyway, just thought I would toss that log into the fire and see if it burns.
Last edited by Silver_Dodge; Apr 27, 2010 at 07:00 PM.
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Well, I just think with seven in the running every month, you are gonna run out of trucks before too long. Then you are gonna find yourselves just voting on the same trucks that ran in the not too distant past and it will get rather boring.
I think 3rd Gen has 7 noms and then takes the first 5 to accept.
They set up a MOTM (member of the month) not long ago and were gonna take seven every month for that also. There just aren't that many really helpful members who go out of their way to help people over there. I'd say 90% are there to GET information as opposed to GIVE it.
So they paired that down to three and it seems to be working very well...
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Sounds true to me. The main reason I'm still around is the cool folks who responded to my first 10-20 posts. If it weren't for that I'd be perfectly OK sifting through the archives via search.
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From: Burnsville, mn - Pensacola, fl
That i can agree with 100%, i understand and im not complaining at all, but personally i know i'd never even come close to winning truck of the month because mine is a rust bucket which im fine with.
But im not the only person on here who has a rusty truck and it would be alot easier for us to compete with some of the nicer and newer trucks just by also doing our modifications vs modifications.
But im not the only person on here who has a rusty truck and it would be alot easier for us to compete with some of the nicer and newer trucks just by also doing our modifications vs modifications.
On a side but related idea, I always thought it would be neat to do something like a Modification of The Month. The idea is to have a poll not based on voting on someones entire ride, but just on one single modification they've done. Back when we where doing TOTM, I remember people complaining that they would never get nominated because their truck was mostly stock and couldn't compete with the highly modded rigs. So this competition would throw that out the window and let you showcase just one cool thing you've done to your truck. Everyone could participate in that.
I envision that we would have people submit to the section mods a cool modification they've done that they want to showcase. The mods would vote on the top 5 or 10 or something to be entered into the competiton. Each entrant would then provide a brief description of what the modification was, why they did it, how it works, etc... Then the rest of us get to vote on a winner.
It has some side benefits for the forum that a regular TOTM doesn't have. One I already mentioned is that everyone could participate, not just the guys with really nice and highly modified rigs. Another would be that you would get to see a bunch of neat modification ideas all presented in one thread. That would be very interesting to see I think. It could help spark a lot of discussion about interesting modifications, and might prompt people to discuss stuff they've done that they did just because it fixed something for them, was a good idea, saved them money, etc... That would in turn help others who might have the same need and just never thought of a good way to fix it.
Anyway, just thought I would toss that log into the fire and see if it burns.
I envision that we would have people submit to the section mods a cool modification they've done that they want to showcase. The mods would vote on the top 5 or 10 or something to be entered into the competiton. Each entrant would then provide a brief description of what the modification was, why they did it, how it works, etc... Then the rest of us get to vote on a winner.
It has some side benefits for the forum that a regular TOTM doesn't have. One I already mentioned is that everyone could participate, not just the guys with really nice and highly modified rigs. Another would be that you would get to see a bunch of neat modification ideas all presented in one thread. That would be very interesting to see I think. It could help spark a lot of discussion about interesting modifications, and might prompt people to discuss stuff they've done that they did just because it fixed something for them, was a good idea, saved them money, etc... That would in turn help others who might have the same need and just never thought of a good way to fix it.
Anyway, just thought I would toss that log into the fire and see if it burns.
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From: Colorado
Ya, I for one would love to see red neck/do it yourself at home fixes/ideas compete against store bought pre engineered modifications. In the end, the winner will be the one who has the best mod, no matter how it came about.