Author of the Month

As you may or may not know, BFBv.2 has been slacking when it comes to the five blog authors that compose the content of the blog. Most of the blog authors in the past months hardly contributed to the blog by not writing a few blog entries, and most of the entries you have read lately were written by Caitlin and Buddy Foote. Thus I have put together a sort of contest to motivate the other blog authors to write at the blog more often and to write good quality posts. The contest has just kicked off today. More information will be provided below:

Banner created by Caitlin.

The banner above will be rewarded to the author who won the vote for 'Author of the Month (x month). The banner will be placed underneath their picture in their short profile located on the sidebar for the following month. When the next AotM is voted for, the banner will be removed and be placed in a future AotM archive, listing past AotM's so that we will never forget their achievements. Hopefully such will motivate all blog authors to write a quantity of posts that contain great quality.

The dates where certain events pertaining to the Author of the Month contest are the following:

• 22nd of the month -- A new poll on the sidebar located under the authors' profiles and above the sponsored ads goes into effect. The authors placed in the poll are the authors that posted that month before the 22nd. Authors who are not in the poll yet post an entry or two after the 22nd and before the first of the following month have a 50% chance of being added to the poll depending on the quality of their post(s). If such an author posts after or on the first, they cannot be added to the current poll but have a 100% of being added to the AotM poll for that following month.
  
• 6th of the following month -- Based on the votes in the polls, the Author of the Month is chosen and they receive their banner, which can be referred to as a certificate. This certificate will remain under their profile picture until the 6th of the following month, where the next AotM is nominated. If the same author wins again, their certificate is replaced with the updated version, and the older certificate is dumped in the future AotM archives.
  

For further examples:

Caitlin and Buddy Foote are the only blog authors who wrote entries for June '07. When June 22 comes around, their names are added to the new poll. Chase chooses to post on June 27 and the post contains great quality, thus his name is added to the poll. However, Joey posts on July 2 and cannot be added to the current poll, but will be added to the July 22nd poll. Depending on the votes in the poll, the winner for June is chosen on July 6. The winner has their new shiny Author of the Month banner under their picture in their profile until August 6th, where the July AotM is chosen.

I hope that cleared up some possible confusing aspects of the contest.

Yet again, the poll is located on the left sidebar and you can vote for Author of the Month there. I ask that you scan the entries for the featured month (you can easily do so by selecting the month in the archives as they will not all be listed on the front page) and then make your choice. Please do not be discriminating in your decision -- do not vote depending on gender, who you're a friend with, etc. and if you're a blog author on the poll, please do not vote for yourself. I ask that you make your decision fairly based on only the blog entries for the featured month. Please no not get confused and look at posts in a month that do not matter to the poll.

I hope that you, the reader or fellow blog author, vote on the Author of the Month poll and may the best author for that month win. I also hope that such a contest will bring about more motivation and devotion when it comes to the completion of A+ blog entries.