Most Helpful/Knowlegeable User Nominations - 3 Winners this year!

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Who knows a lot and is willing to share? Who takes the time out of their day to answer your questions whenever they can? Nominate your favourite as the most Helpful/Knowledgeable User here and if that user is voted as the favourite during the Voting Period, that user will win a $50 Amazon.ca gift card, a RedFlagDeals.com T-shirt, and a plaque commemorating the achievement!

Last year Cyanne won this award, which means she isn't eligible this year, but feel free to show your appreciation here anyway. :)

There's a new wrinkle in this category this year: we're going to have 3 winners in this category this year! As many as 30 members will be nominated and then randomly placed into 3 polls. The winner of each poll will get the prize pack! So if 24 worthy members are nominated, we will create three polls with 8 nominated members each! We want to highlight as many amazing members as possible!

[Sazafraz]

I nominate pitz!

[zeze]

I nominate Firestorm

[dtrader69]

i nominate neksus

[faken]

pitz!!

[mahjongmaniac]

Last year Cyanne won this award, which means he isn't eligible this year, but feel free to show your appreciation here anyway. :)

hm... cut 'n paste error? ^LOL

she's not gonna be too happy when she sees that :D

[GP-02]

angel_wing0 with the interest rates and smart cash threads!

[bigzbling]

I nominate Pete_Coach. Always helping people out in the Motor Vehicle section.

[Mysteek]

I nominate pitz!

Pitz was the first to come to my mind too!

+1 vote for Pitz

[K8]

I nominate alanbrenton who helped me out earlier in the year when I was a newbie. He went out of his way to assist me with a "price matching" which ended up saving me $180. (and I had never had any interaction with him before that incident)

[Setz]

I nominate neksus. I'm sure his tivs.ca website has generated a lot of traffic for RFD, and he's very quick to update it in the blink of an eye the moment a new TIV is posted in the BBV/EB Hot Deals thread. Kleptodathief would be lost without his turds, which I guess neksus and the RFD community brings to light in that thread.

Klepto better nominate me for the 300+ PMs he sends me a day asking me about working at EBGames and the inner workings of the computer systems there. ;)

[anton204]

A big thanks to Neksus!!

He has gone a long way with tivs.ca and the helping all of us in the BBV/EB/FS Cheap Games Thread + TIV updates thread.

[Firestorm]

Yes, neksus. He's been able to keep going with tivs.ca longer than Lone_Prodigy and I did combined on our respective projects. Not to mention he made it more functional, usable, and timely too!

[tng11]

+1 for pitz.

[_pOtEnZa_]

i nominate neksus

neksus for his tivs.ca thread !!

[Pavel6969]

Neksus hands down. His work on tivs is amazing!

[jeremyw95]

Jac

[TripleQ]

+1 neksus.. i feel sorry for whoever will be in the poll with him ;)

[Strategy]

neksus as well, no brainer really...

[Sephora]

neksus

[mahjongmaniac]

+1 for neksus

[jonkaho]

neksus or deal

[specs_bv]

neksus

[lookingforstufffff]

Jac

[Captain Snazzypants]

neksus for his tivs.ca thread !!

what he said - I also vote for NEKSUS

Neksus has been such a help to so many who would have gone gameless without tivs.ca to guide the way...

[Jucius Maximus]

I nominate Pete_Coach. Always helping people out in the Motor Vehicle section.

+1, Pete is very helpful overall.

Honourable mentions to tng11 and angel_wing0.

[baller89]

pitz!

[sharonnelt]

I'm going to say Mr. Disco for his/her help on the Pepsi contest this year.

[buddhababy]

I second angel_wing0's nomination!

[Tracy20]

I nominate Octavius and his FSWEP thread! He has definitely been the most helpful! :)

Thanks

[kleptodathief]

who the hell is this neksus guy lolz

+1 i guess from all the fellow horders:cheesygri

hon mention goes to setz haha

[slowtyper]

angel_wing0 with the interest rates and smart cash threads!

Yeah angel_wing0 is by far the most helpful (not just to me) person I've seen on a forum.

[LarryLat]

pitz

[ladybug193]

Nsx. He is ALWAYS helpful and seems to know a bit about everything :)

[milobloom]

Deal, for the regular and extremely detailed Costco West threads.

[3weddings]

I nominate Pete_Coach. Always helping people out in the Motor Vehicle section.

I'd have to agree, and 2nd this one!

[jeremyw95]

Can I nominate a second person?

I nominate....

EBOLA

[Cyanne]

hm... cut 'n paste error? ^LOL

she's not gonna be too happy when she sees that :D

Naw... I'm too understanding and forgiving to be upset (not that it will get me anything this year ;).)

I do have a suggestion though. What's with the random groups to assign three winners? How do you decide who's in which group? Are the groups thematic: helpful/knowledgable/best hair? It seems like it would make more sense to have ONE poll with the 30 candidates, give everyone three votes and give prizes to the top three. Does the board software accomodate that?

[A 06]

Naw... I'm too understanding and forgiving to be upset (not that it will get me anything this year ;).)

I do have a suggestion though. What's with the random groups to assign three winners? How do you decide who's in which group? Are the groups thematic: helpful/knowledgable/best hair? It seems like it would make more sense to have ONE poll with the 30 candidates, give everyone three votes and give prizes to the top three. Does the board software accomodate that?

I don't think the board can accommodate for 30 poll options. I would assume that the most fair way to have three polls would be to use a random number generator to populate each of the three polls in some uniform, and therefore fair, way.

[Ryan]

I don't think the board can accommodate for 30 poll options. I would assume that the most fair way to have three polls would be to use a random number generator to populate each of the three polls in some uniform, and therefore fair, way.

You are correct. We can't have a poll with 30 options, so the fair way to do it is with 3 random groupings.

[Cyanne]

You are correct. We can't have a poll with 30 options, so the fair way to do it is with 3 random groupings.

I'm not sure I agree that "random" is most fair. This isn't a contest--it's a reward for good work. Perhaps separate them by category; it's hard to compare totally different kinds of contributions anyway. Or maybe you could make sure the individuals with the most nominations are in seperate groups?

[aznrock2000]

neksus all the way! I owe it to TIVS.ca for all the free/cheap games I've got from EB/FS/BBV this year.

Thank you.

[Lone_Prodigy]

I'm not sure I agree that "random" is most fair. This isn't a contest--it's a reward for good work. Perhaps separate them by category; it's hard to compare totally different kinds of contributions anyway. Or maybe you could make sure the individuals with the most nominations are in seperate groups?

If you're looking for totally unbiased and fair voting here, you're looking in the wrong place. It's a popularity contest FFS.

[AmberMoon]

I'm going to say Mr. Disco for his/her help on the Pepsi contest this year.

Couldn`t agree more!
Mr. Disco has my vote, for his years of dedication to the Pepsi contests and his hard work up keeping the FAQ

[l69norm]

all the guys that made the giant curtis 359 thread a huge sucess: yprules, fcdrew, JeeZues, etc

special mention = animous for his wiki from the curtis 359 thread

[lazy_prodigy]

angel_wing0

[jbecker]

Windowguy all the way!!!

[danyo]

I nominate Patrob, who has surprised me with their willingness to answer all questions in their hardwood flooring Q/A thread!

[zajacik99]

i agree with those who nominated:
~~~ angel_wing0 ~~~

One of the best and most helpful members you can meet in Personal Finance section, starting and updating many ongoing threads.

[Octavius]

i agree with those who nominated:
~~~ angel_wing0 ~~~

One of the best and most helpful members you can meet in Personal Finance section, starting and updating many ongoing threads.

+1

I nominate him as well.

[Crowbarfoot]

pitz

[zloy]

windowguy is very helpful in windows thread

[oulisee]

another vote windowguy here ...

[cashinstinct]

angel_wing0 for interest rates and credit card threads

[langong]

I nominate Rembrandt100 he is very helpful in the yard works related stuff

[Mits]

Couldn`t agree more!
Mr. Disco has my vote, for his years of dedication to the Pepsi contests and his hard work up keeping the FAQ

+1 to MrDisco, I know he's already nominated but I agree, his work to maintain stats on the Pepsi winnings is greatly appreciated. I discovered the contest from his signature in an unrelated thread, and that's what got me hooked on contests, I've had a very good first month and a half in winnings thanks to him.

[Mits]

I'm not sure I agree that "random" is most fair. This isn't a contest--it's a reward for good work. Perhaps separate them by category; it's hard to compare totally different kinds of contributions anyway. Or maybe you could make sure the individuals with the most nominations are in seperate groups?

+1 with our recent sour experience in the Pepsi win every hour, I think "random" now has a bad name.

I like Cyanne's idea of at least separating the 3 with the most nominations. It would not be any different than seeding a tournament, so you don't have what should be a final match happening right at the start.

The odds of the top 3 nominations randomly landing is a separate poll is very slim. Less than 1 in 7 or 14% (the same odds of all 3 landing in the same poll). Therefore, the odds of 2 top nominations in the same poll are 6 in 7 or 86% chance.

[TidalDreams]

The odds of the top 3 nominations randomly landing is a separate poll is very slim. Less than 1 in 7 or 14% (the same odds of all 3 landing in the same poll). Therefore, the odds of 2 top nominations in the same poll are 6 in 7 or 86% chance.

Isn't it 1/27 (1/3 * 1/3 * 1/3)? Or is my probability a little rusty?

[Soulsaber]

i nominate firestorm

+1

[dbelange]

One more for Windowguy!

[euphoria24]

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