Hall of Awesome and Hall of Lame

I think I might have mentioned something like this a while back, but it's just come back to me now. Idea is simple, people suggest things such as TV shows, people, entities etc etc. that should be enshrined for being terrible (Hall of Lame) or super dooper epic win cool (Hall of Awesome).

It's not gonna be a one-nom-and-done thing, because there will be some disagreement, but I think it can be done quite well. Maybe I could put all the nominations on a list and each fortnight/month we can vote two or three of the most popular suggestions in? Feel free to nominate as many or as few to each as you like, but rather than putting the same as someone else, put something diffrent down and put at the end that you support the nomination for that thing (see mine below).

So my nominations:

Awesome:

1. ATK Community
2. Boris Johnson
3. Big Bang Theory
4. Joss Whedon
5. Summer Glau
6. Breaking Benjamin

Lame:

1. Glee
2. Gossip Girl
3. Idiots that drive 5mph in a 50mph zone
4. Rap Music
5. Health and Safety
6. People who buy game cash for IRL money

I'd also support any nomination for myself to go into the Hall of Awesome :D

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LEADING CANDIDATES FOR NOMINATION - JUNE 2010

Awesome (Current Differential of >=3):

• Top Gear
• The Stig
• Valve
• ATi
• Pendulum
• Barney Stinson [by default as King Awesomeness]

Lame (Current Differential of =<-3)

• Your Mum Jokes
• Work
• Big Brother
• No dedi-server games
• PC Fail for no reason

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HALL OF AWESOME

1. Evangeline Lilly (Enshrined by default as ATK DWPS Winner 2010)

HALL OF LAME

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Awesome:
1) Glee
2) Gossip Girl
3) Dubstep
4) Emma Watson
5) 50 cent after his weight loss (lold)
6) Rap

Lame:
1) Your mum jokes
2) Gearscore
3) Awkward moments
4) Grammer
5) ASUS Routers
6) Music and American Football blogs

Awesome

1) Rap Music
2) Cars
3) Barny (from how I met your mother)
4) Repeats of Top Gear
5) Cookies
6) People who race you at lol mph on teh motorway

Lame

1) Breaking Benjamin
2) Screamy fail music
3) Glee
4) Work
5) Big Brother
6) Summer Glau
7) Oric never coming on mumble

Awesome:

1) Captain Price's Tash
2) The Overlay blending mode
3) Desperados Beer
4) Loyd Grossman
5) The Stig

Lame

1) American Football
2) The colour purple
3) Madden NFL
4) That awkward distance between you and the person walking behind when you don't know whether to hold the door open for them or not.
5) AOL

Awesome
1) Valve
2) Chuck
3) ATI
4) Pink Floyd
5) Stargate SG1/Atlantis
6) Spotify

Lame
1) Activision
2) Halo
3) Consoles
4) Apple
5) That little bit in the jamjar you just CAN'T GET OUT!
6) That lady GaGa song stuck in your head you just CAN'T GET OUT!
7) Stargate Universe
8) 24
9) Lost
10) ANY american drama involving cops or lawyers.

Awesome
1. ATi
2. Having lolTB of HDD space left
3. Pendulum live
4. Steam
5. The guy wiht the registration "L337 HAX" on his car :D
6. Vivaldi - four Seasons
7. Avatar

Lame
1. Games without dedicated servers
2. Failmage who tries to make us wipe constantly and is a retard
3. Screamy music
4. Bad movie games
5. When the computer jsut wont work for no reason
6. When DK takes his "lets rip mitch" WAAAY too far. <<<<<<<<<<
7. Windows 7 :D

OK, I've got one of my epic spreadsheets going, so I can keep track of everything. There was quite a few there I have an opinion on, so this is a good opportunity to show you the ideal format for expressing support for awesomeness or lamedom for a certain topic.

I would like to add my support for the following:

Awesome:
Emma Watson, Grammar, Music Blogs, American Football Blogs, Barney Stinson, Top Gear, Cookies, The Stig, American Football, Purple, Maddden NFL Series, Valve, Chuck, ATi, Spotify, Consoles, US Cop Dramas, Lol HD Space, Pendulum

Lame:
Your Mum jokes, Work, Big Brother, The Awkward Difference......Door or Not, Remnents in the jam jar, Lady GaGa, Lost, No Dedi Server Games, PC Fail for no reason.

I'd also like to nominate Kaley Cuoco for the Awesomeness list.

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Originally Posted by Oricalcos

OK, I've got one of my epic spreadsheets going, so I can keep track of everything. There was quite a few there I have an opinion on, so this is a good opportunity to show you the ideal format for expressing support for awesomeness or lamedom for a certain topic.

I would like to add my support for the following:

Awesome:
Emma Watson, Grammar, Music Blogs, American Football Blogs, Barney Stinson, Top Gear, Cookies, The Stig, American Football, Purple, Maddden NFL Series, Valve, Chuck, ATi, Spotify, Consoles, US Cop Dramas, Lol HD Space, Pendulum

Lame:
Your Mum jokes, Work, Big Brother, The Awkward Difference......Door or Not, Remnents in the jam jar, Lady GaGa, Lost, No Dedi Server Games, PC Fail for no reason.

I'd also like to nominate Kaley Cuoco for the Awesomeness list.

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from oric's list...

Awesome:
Grammar,Top Gear, Cookies, The Stig, Purple, Valve, Chuck, ATi, Spotify, Pendulum


Lame:
Your Mum jokes, Work, Big Brother, Remnents in the jam jar, Lady GaGa, Lost, No Dedi Server Games, PC Fail for no reason.


Good start, no?

That's not my list, that's from others above me, and I've added support to one of the two sides. You can do that for anyone, so remember to keep checking the thread for new ideas. And please do support others rather than keep spamming new ones, otherwise we end up with 1000's of nominations at 1 on either side, and makes it difficult to decide. But I've added yours into the spreadsheet.

EDIT - Two more things. One - if you've already said something once, don't say it again to get it extra votes. I will be checking back to make sure there is no fixing. If someone else has said it, then by all means, go ahead and nominate again, but if it's your own, then please don't. (e.g I shouldn't post again and say Kaley Cuoco or Summer Glau).

Two, just because someone nominated something for one list, doesn't mean you can't nominate it for the other. Grammar was an example, someone put it on lame, but above, me and DK put it on Awesome. So bear that in mind. There is a differential factor in being shortlisted as well, so bear that in mind.

EDIT2 - @ DK - I'll say it's a good start, have more than 60 things already :D

EDIT 3 - Added 'Gap between posts and signatures on new ATK site' to Lame list.

EDIT 4 - Adding 'leading candidates for nomination' lists to top post.

I think some of Chazlene's lames need to be added to hall Oric :D

We will have a chance to see if there worthy soon - meanwhile, actually put down which ones you think should be in there as an extra nomination and I'll table them.

Awesome:
Stephen Fry's voice

Lame:
Joe Pasquale's voice


that's all i got

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Originally Posted by Toasty-Sloth

that's all i got

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That's lame. But I'll add them in anyway. Chalex has fixed the table function so I'll post the current tables up in a minute.

Here goes for actors...

Awesome:

Michael Caine
Jason Statham
Woody Harrelson

Lame:

Bruce Willis
Owen Wilson
Mel Gibson

Here it is - The table. The differential is simple, more positive means more awesome, more negative means more lame. Sorted by decending differential. If you see something you like, or something you don't like - post your support or lack of support for it, and I'll add you to the list - I'm looking for a diff of +/- 5 to put something on the shortlist to be nominated for the Halls. Those in bold are currently front runners to be shortlisted for the Hall.

EDIT - Added my nomination of Pyrotechnics to Awesomeness.
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Awesome:
-24
-Valve
Bioware
xkcd
-Pyrotechnics
Zombie Apocalypse

Lame:
-Your mum jokes
Twilight
Those "click here to see an amazing thing!" groups on Facebook
- When DK takes his "lets rip mitch" WAAAY too far.

- for supports.

Awesome
- Bioware
- Valve
- Rammstein
- BFMV
- Hustle
- Stephen Fry
- RPS

Lame
- Bobby Kotick
- Ubisoft
- Zynga
- Rap Music

Added Phant's and Bloo's suggestions - nice format Bloo by distinguishing new from support - Can everyone do something similar from now on by checking the latest table. Which is now below. Also, I decided to nominate 'Hayley Wiliams' boobs' as an awesome, because I'm shallow and want to see if I can actually get it in :D If you haven't seen or don't know who she is - she's the lead singer of Paramore, and posted a photo on Twitter....enough said. There is a censored version HERE (because I'm a perv for Paramore) and an uncensored one currently on Addenda Provided (one way of grabbing traffic :D)

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Added Phant's and Bloo's suggestions - nice format Bloo by distinguishing new from support - Can everyone do something similar from now on by checking the latest table. Which is now below. Also, I decided to nominate 'Hayley Wiliams' boobs' as an awesome, because I'm shallow and want to see if I can actually get it in :D If you haven't seen or don't know who she is - she's the lead singer of Paramore, and posted a photo on Twitter....enough said. Uncensored version on my blog, censored version HERE

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Lame

Oric not fixing his pc
Purple

Technically that first one is now defunct since I sorted it this morning, but I'll add your misguided vote for purple.

Since you put Evangeline Lily in there as default perhaps we should have others like that?

How about:

Kitchen Gun + Toilet Grenade
Chuck Norris (since he won the 'who would win in a fight poll' way back)
The I-series lans

Any other suggestions?

Technically, the DWPS was a vote of the most awesome gal around, which was voted on by the whole community and had the whole community nominate contenders, so technically that was the first Hall vote (or at least the closest thing to the current format). I can't add anything in for the community without the vote, regardless of how awesome or lame it is, because then I get called out for bias and everyone quits on me. Whilst Chuck Norris should be allowed in because of that, it wasn't a completely open poll where everyone nominated someone, and thusly I can't add him straight in. iSeries and KG/TG (whilst awesome), have never had a vote, so I'll add them to the list and implore people to support them in the thread (look over the list now and again and anything you like, just do a quick post saying you think that is awesome/lame as well.)

This only really works if you guys get involved and read over the list now and again to voice your opinions on stuff as to whether it's lame or awesome, because if it's only all nominating , then we don't get enough support for the existing ideas and then I can't do the polls, and then the whole thing tailspins. Even if you only check it once a week (polls will run monthly), and just put

'Awesome: Summer Glau
Lame: Lost and Joe Pasquali'

then we can get ideas going and we can keep this forum relatively active.

By all means, nominate to your hearts content, but please also read over the list and add items onto your lists which are already there so we can keep the polls going. Remember, something needs a differential of about +/- 4 or 5 to be eligible for polling.