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Pick the Top 3 Best New Trophies for Tom's Hardware - See Below for Details


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jpishgar

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All submissions for new trophies for our new community have been received. A panel of judges has reviewed all that were sent in based on creativeness, viability, fit with the Tom's theme, fun, and achievement. The best and the brightest are arrayed below for you to cast your vote on throughout the next 7 days. The winner at the end of the voting period will win a $100 Amazon Gift card (and bragging rights), and the top 3 trophies will be implemented here in the forums. Note: Where visuals lacked, they have been added. Where How was not possible due to system criteria, it has been adjusted.

What: New Community Trophy Contest
When: Wednesday, February 27th to Wednesday, March 26th, 2019.
How: Vote on your favorite trophy idea in the poll! [Pick your Top 3 of 10]

The Top Trophies:
  • "Consistent" How: 10+ Answer upvotes received for consistently good advice. Visual: Tortoise. By: Barty1884
  • "The Retro King" How: 5 Best Answers in a new Retro Hardware category. Visual: Early 80's style computer with a crown on top. By: mjbn1977
  • "Speedy One" How: Respond 20 times within 10 minutes of a New Question being posted. Visual: Speedometer or a racing hare. By: nhardinger2003
  • "RGB Glowworm / RGB Aficionado / Aurora Borealis" How: Awarded at 10/50/100 Best Answers in new RGB Category Visual: Mini LED bulb icon. By: Darkbreeze
  • "Comeback Kid" How: Login after being away for 1 year or more. Visual: A rubberband. By: Colif
  • "Noob Meister" How: Have fewer than 50 posts and receive a Best Answer. Visual: Baby with a graduate cap on. By:starwarsgamer5001
  • "Masterinian" How: An expansion of the Seniority Trophy line, rewarded at 13 years of membership. Visual: Obelisk. By: Yehezkiel
  • "Power Supply Expert/Authority/Master How: Awarded at 10/50/100 Best Answers in a new Power Supply Unit category. Visual: A power supply with dots indicating level 1-3. By: Darkbreeze
  • "Knows Their Stuff" How: Awarded when user has at least 500 Best Answers and 10,000 Trophy Points. Visual: Trophy with a Star. By: JQB45
  • "At Home" How: User has uploaded an avatar to their user account. Visual: A little house. By: Colif
Honorable Mentions:
Uri Abraham's "The Polymath", MakoRuu's "Most Polite", Math Geek's "Icebreaker", Onus' "Swag", Ttesar06's "The Answered", TripleHeinz' "Oopsie", Aquielisunari's "Attendance", g-unit1111's "Handclap/Ovation/Showman", JQB45's "Spy", boju's "Embedded Games", Dark Lord of Tech's "NightCrawler", Olle P's "Cross Reference", rubix_1011's "Medic", gdmaclew's "Super-Sleuth", R0GG's "Perseverance", tabkey's "The Resurrector", KcLinux's "On Fire", laviniuc's "Lmgtfy", Hamperking68's "First Responder", toxicwarrior7's "Rapid Responder", justin.m.beauvais' "Yes Man", gzitou's "Rainbow Rig", COLGeek's "Dead Horse", elbert's "Modder", qrJosh's "Conversational", Phaewryn's "KludgeMaster", cupcakewalk's "Exceptionally Clear Writing", ChaosWeaver's "The Plagiarizer".

May the best trophy win!

No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Giveaway is only open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and District of Columbia and the United Kingdom, 18 or older. For a complete list of rules, please see the Terms and Conditions below.


Official Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.​

The Tom’s Hardware Forums New Trophy Contest (“Sweepstakes”) begins at 12 p.m. (noon) Eastern Time (“ET”) on February 14th and ends at 12 p.m. ET on February 24th, 2018 (“Sweepstakes Period”).

ELIGIBILITY: This Sweepstakes is only open to legal residents of the United Kingdom, legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and District of Columbia, 18 or older. Employees, officers, directors and agents of Future PLC (“Sponsor”), and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates and advertising and promotion agencies, including any vendors providing services in connection with this Sweepstakes, and members of their immediate family (spouse, parent, children, siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and persons living in the same household, whether or not related, are not eligible. Void where prohibited. Subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws.

HOW TO ENTER: To enter, submit your entry during the Sweepstakes Period and follow the directions to enter the Sweepstakes. Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means or by any means which subvert the entry process are void. Entrants can only obtain one entry. Entries become the sole property of Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entry that it determines, in its sole discretion, is not in compliance with these Official Rules.

-Reply to this thread with your idea for a new trophy, which must include the name of the trophy, how a user of the forums can win it, and a visual representation or description of how it should look as icon/image/symbol. Example: “Robotic Rabbit” - Earn at least 3 Best Answers in all tech forum sections, Image: Sprinting bunny.

Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means or by any means which subvert the entry process are void. Entrants can only obtain an entry for any Entry Action one (1) time. No entrant can earn more than one (1) entries in this Sweepstakes. Entries become the sole property of Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entry and remove any post that it determines, in its sole discretion, is not in compliance with these Official Rules.

WINNER DETERMINATION: Potential winners will be selected by Sponsor in a random drawing on or about [[date]] from among all eligible entries received. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. Sponsor’s decisions with respect to winner determination are final and binding.

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Prizes: First Prize: (1) 100 dollar Amazon Gift Card. ARV: $100.00. Total ARV: $100.00

Prizes are non-assignable and non-transferable and cannot be redeemed for cash. Prizes are awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied. Winners are responsible for all federal, state and local taxes as well as any costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided. Winners may not substitute a prize, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute a prize with one of comparable or greater value. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Limit one (1) prize per person/email address/household.

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This Sweepstakes is only open to legal residents of the United Kingdom and legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and District of Columbia, aged 18 or older.

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Colif

Win 11 Master
Moderator
More trophies to collect, "Knows their stuff" would be an auto award for many on charts now.

Funny how 2 of the suggestions are from me, I can't enter or at least win based on where I am from, those were free suggestions :)

You should have way more than just that one Dark Lord :)
 
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Tanyac

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Personally, I don't think any new trophies are needed. More important is the ability to easily spot unanswered questions like the "Answer this" on the old forums. For older people with failing eye sight the new forums are difficult to spot the unanswered questions.

More important than pampering our egos is just being able to easily spot the questions needing assistance. Just my 2c worth
 

Colif

Win 11 Master
Moderator
Personally, I don't think any new trophies are needed. More important is the ability to easily spot unanswered questions like the "Answer this" on the old forums. For older people with failing eye sight the new forums are difficult to spot the unanswered questions.

More important than pampering our egos is just being able to easily spot the questions needing assistance. Just my 2c worth

themes are being created that may fix your problem. I doubt trophy creation is being done by some person making themes.

I have to wear glasses to read forum now and the bold/non bold thing is pretty obvious on my PC. Yes, it could be better but its not a complete fail. Lets not take this off topic here though.
 
Hmmmm......

Have not recieved all of the old trophies yet and we are voting for new ones.

Interesting(got chance to vote for a new one) and disappointing(taking more time than expected to transfer all the trophies from old forum to new one).
 

Colif

Win 11 Master
Moderator
The old trophies need to be recreated here before they can be fixed, so opening up the idea for new trophies while they are creating the old ones as well isn't a bad idea.

I don't know anything about the progress regarding old trophies.
 
The old trophies need to be recreated here before they can be fixed, so opening up the idea for new trophies while they are creating the old ones as well isn't a bad idea.

I don't know anything about the progress regarding old trophies.
Creating new trophies is not bad idea at all and having open discussion about it without limiting to mods and higher officials is really great.

Thing is that it is taking bit longer than expected. Probably because there were even more important issues which needed to be resolved first like slow-down of forum(got solved thankfully still my ping is higher than before but not as worse as it was when the forum slowed down).

I hope trophies get sorted out in a week or two at max.
 

Colif

Win 11 Master
Moderator
Knows your stuff is deceptive, it looks easier to get than it actually is.

While it is not that hard to get 500 Best Answers, that 10k TP is going to take a while and you likely be closer to 1500 BA before you achieve it.
 
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