Hall of Fame?

[godix]

That was kinda sorta the idea way back when I did this. Nothing ever came of it really though.

[8bit_samurai]

I actually thought about something like this, but more like a recommended/required viewing. Something like Phade has somewhere, but more updated. Perhaps one with each genre and style of editing, and perhaps with a best of each generation of AMVs list, or something to that affect.

[Qyot27]

I think it's a cool idea. I suppose there could be a panel of people who would vote on who gets into the hall of fame. Regular people could make nominations, but some panel of judges would have the final say. Maybe limit it to about 3 people being added into the hall of fame each year.

3 people per year is definitely not enough. It would take us till 2020 just to get to the 2001 editors if we're going to start with Vlad, Kevin Caldwell, Anna Exter, Maboroshi, Aluminum, etc.

3 people per month? I'd only wonder how long that would take to exhaust itself before it would need to be dropped down to 3 per quarter or 3 per year.

How about determining judges based on join date/editing activity? Say, editors that joined prior to X date and/or have X number of videos in the catalog (possibly weighted against opinion scores or star rankings). And then slowly change those limits as time goes on as well. That way the older editors that have stuck around can nominate and vote in the older editors (including much older editors) that may or may not have stuck around. I'm thinking something of a cross between the way the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame goes through its induction process, and VH1 determines its Top whatever lists of whatever songs/artists/albums. The first sets the restrictions on who can be considered and so forth, while the second takes a polling of artists in the recording industry who rank their biggest influences/top picks and then VH1 simply tallies the votes.

Or make it double-blind - for each nomination cycle, the judges get voted in by regular members. The members have no idea who the judges are (which would require not displaying the voting results), and the judges would then vote for their top 3 picks from the nominee list also generated by the regular members. The top 3 from all the nominees are then inducted. The process then repeats monthly or bi-monthly or whatever. Judge voting could be open for 2 weeks, and then the judges would have 2 weeks to vote for their picks. Just make sure there's a good number of judges each month, and after judging in one cycle, you'd have to sit out for the next four or five cycles or something like that. Give others a chance to judge too.

The only problem is that the amount of editors to start off with would be incredibly unwieldy, and wouldn't tend to change much until all of them had been voted in. At a rate of 3 per month, that's 36 a year. We'd probably run out of nominees of superior note after 2-2½ years, and I'm not sure if newer editors would be able to bridge that time gap so quickly to fill the nominee list back up.

All of this Hall of Fame voting and judge candidacy and so on could probably use a dedicated subforum, like the VCA stuff gets. Except it'd ostensibly be open all year.

[Ikore]

Hey, I'm not that old |:<

you´re that OLD, accept it! but you actually won a VCA so technically you are not qualify for this idea, it is suppose to recognize non-award but worthy editors or not???

I guess a VCA owner is automatically added to the Hall Of Fame ps, great idea

[Zarxrax]

Come on guys, Just because someone is old and made AMVs doesn't mean they are hall of fame material :p

[TritioAFB]

Just because someone is old and made AMVs doesn't mean they are hall of fame material :p

Ouch

[dreamawake]

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[NS]

The Sound should be entered.

[JaddziaDax]

O.o

[Nya-chan Production]

3 per year sounds good enough.

All VCA winners shouldn't be added automatically - admit it, some of the VCA winners just shine and fade away...