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Posted on: Jun. 3, 2006 at 4:01 PM

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Hello Voice of Arizona Members,
As you know we are running a monthly promotion for the members who write articles. For the month of February VOA is giving away $500 in cash. On March 1st there will be an opinion poll on the home page for you to vote on the member you think made the best contribution to the site during February. See details under cash prizes home page. To vote you must be logged in and only one vote per member. GOOD LUCK
Note: To win prizes your email address must be correct so we can contact winner. Any prize not claimed in 7 days will be forfeited.
1st Place: $300.00
2nd Place: $150.00
3rd Place: $50.00

We are always looking for Member feedback on the site, we read and take into consideration everyone’s ideas.

VOA Staff

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AZ Moderate

Mar. 17, 2006 at 01:14:48 PM

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Darn you guys. You've got me hooked! I'm addicted to your great operation here at VOA. The kids don't get fed on time because of you! I sit here and wet my ... but that's another story.

I have in the past been an avid letter-to-the-editor writer, but newspapers put an upper limit of 150 to 250 words on opinions. You guys on the other hand require at least 100 words, and I haven't bumped my head against any upper limit as yet. You know, that could be dangerous. Don't get me started ...

My letters to newpapers have dropped to ZERO since I discovered your site.

May I suggest that you consider adding a couple of categories. You might pass this before the members for suggestions and comments.

Hitory - I for one would love to expound at great lengths on AZ History and also the Second World War and the Nazi Regime.

Philosophy & Prophecy - Not necessarily, but possibly, in the same category.

Physchology & Human Behavior - a couple of the articles that I just hatched would probably fit best in such a category.

Science Fiction.

Perhaps new categories could be added condtionally. If they are not used within a sunset period, the do not earn a permanent home.

Thanks for everything.

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AZ Moderate

Mar. 27, 2006 at 09:34:14 PM

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To The Voice of Arizona:

There are several good writers that contribute to Voice of Arizona. I would like to make a suggestion that would recognize more of them.

Voice of Arizona is willing to put up $500.00 monthly spread over 3 contest winners. How about spreading that over 5 winners instead, picked from a list of ten candidates instead of the current three?
o 1st place: $200.00
o 2nd place: $100.00 each for two awards.
o 3rd place: $50.00 each for two awards.
o (The total comes in on budget)
o Expand the list of contestants to 10, using Voice of Arizona’s current criteria of number of articles written.
Five out of the ten will win a prize (number of votes deciding placement of course).

(Caveat: VofA should have some kind of veto power in the case where someone slam-dunks poor quality short articles that degrade the quality of the dialog. This is a tough nut to crack because someone will have to make a judgment call, but there has to be some oversight to check flagrant gaming the system, and VofA is the best referee.)

I have another observation. There are some contributors that write few articles but are very active, articulate and interesting in the comments dialog for other contributors’ articles. Some of these comments are of article quality themselves. It’s conceivable that such a contributor might not make the list of ten which is based on article count. There should be some recognition of such participation as well. Maybe a $25.00 award based on nominations. Numbers of comments really won’t work here - there has to be an assessment of quality. Perhaps that could be done through nominations by all VofA participants. The winner would be the individual with the greatest number of nominations.

It may be too late to implement this suggestion, or some variation of it, for the February contest, but I would like to see it considered for the future.

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Average American

Mar. 27, 2006 at 10:17:31 PM

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April 1st you mean????

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AZ Moderate

Mar. 27, 2006 at 11:19:29 PM

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Early April fool, Double A.

Actually I got fooled. You are correct. February should have been March in my last sentence. I was thinking that the VofA posting was for this month, but it is for last month. How did I overlook that? I'm so confused!!

But, I got the impression somewhere that VofA was going to do this for more than one month, so just plug March into my last sentence in place of February.

Disclaimer: this in no way commits VofA to an April 1st contest for the month of March. I got my wires crossed.

But it is a good suggestion, don't you think Double A?

Thanks for the correction. I think I've got it all straight in my mind now.

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Average American

Mar. 28, 2006 at 07:39:34 AM

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Actually I was telling VofA April 1st. I figured you just played along with their original mistake. No problems mon.

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