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The Sonic Digital Domain's SonicSite Awards:
How to nominate your or a friends' SonicSite to get an award!

So you want to get a SonicSite award, huh?
Well, there's a few rules that you've got to follow in order to receive that award you or your friend may get.

Click on these links to go to a specific section:

Award Summary/criteria
Award Description
Award Rewards!
The Rules (Revised 6/27/98)
Nominate a SonicSite (Read the rules first!!)

Award summary & criteria
Here's the summary of the awards:

A SonicSite award is an award given to the SonicSite that is judged as being worthy of being receiving this prized recognition.  To do this, I review the SonicSite that have recieved enough nominations for it to be judged.  The top 5 nominated sites (those sites with the most nominations by the owner of the site and viewers of the site who wish to nominate a page) will be the sites that will be judged.  When I judge a site, I judge sites according to the following criteria:
 

  • 1.  The SonicSite is about Sonic the Hedgehog, Dr. Robotnik, the Freedom Fighters, Knuckles the Echidna, or any other character featured in the video games made by SEGA and/or the comic books made by Fleetway and Archie.  Self-made characters do NOT count!!
  • 2.  The SonicSite I review has adequate content.  This is important!  I will describe what I'm looking for in terms of content in the rules section.
  • 3.  The SonicSite has been frequently updated.
  • 4.  The SonicSite has its graphics, text, and other components of the site are arranged in a pleasing manner.
  • 5.  The SonicSite I review must try to take in account the differences in browsers--for example, if you have an imagemap to navigate your site, you must also have text links to also navigate your site.  This is because some people have browser that do not support those type of graphics, or have graphics turned off.

    • Each SonicSite will be nominated using either a FormMail (described later) or by e-mail.
    To nominate your SonicSite, you must follow the rules and nominate according to the instructions--no exceptions!

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    Award description:
    There are two levels of "Best SonicSite" awards, the "Silver SonicSite", and a "Gold SonicSite".

    A site given a "Silver SonicSite" award has been selected as the best SonicSite by following the process decribed below, adhering to the criteria above, is in no violation of the rules, and has, in my opinion and other viewer's opinions, the SonicSite is worthy of recognition.
    These are like the "Top SonicSite" recognitions given in the HotList in the former UltraSonic Webpage!  This is done monthly.

    A site given a "Gold SonicSite" award has gone further with the owner's SonicSite:  The owner of the site has done the requirements above, plus has received more "Gold SonicSite" nominations by viewers of the site, or has been the Most Improved SonicSite, which has done poorly in the past, but now shines as being a great SonicSite.  This is done in April (the anniversary of my SonicSite), and is done yearly after that.

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    The Rewards!
    What you have been waiting for me to talk about--what rewards you get!

    For each SonicSite that receives a "Silver SonicSite" award, they receive these rewards:
     

    For each SonicSite that receives a "Gold SonicSite" award, they receive these rewards: Back to top

    The Rules
    Just follow these rules, and you can almost grab that award! It's not hard...
    Notice--rules were revised on 6/27/1998. 3 rules updated, 1 new rule added
     

  • 1.  No multiple nominations (that means at or more than 3 in a row for the same site by the same person).  If you think that you didn't send the submission properly, you may send the nomination a second time for the same site, however if there are two nominations for the same site by the same person, it is only counted as one.  One person may send as many nominations as they desire, as long as they are for different sites.   However, if you send at or more than 3 nominations, all of your nominations for that site will be ignored if this happens.
  • 2.  When you win the award, you must follow the instructions in the email!
  • 3.  A person who has won the award cannot win it again until 1 year passes.
  • 4.  No sore losers!  Anyone who didn't win the award and floods me with hate e-mail shall lose nomination privilages for 3 months!  Besides, you can try again for the award in the next month!  Sorry, but a sore loser is much, much worse than a regular loser.
  • 5.  Probably the most important rule, you must have adequate content in order to win the award.  These are examples of pages that won't win:
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    A SonicSite with only a list of links and no original content
    A SonicSite with too many "bells & whistles" (read: too much Java/Javascript, too many large graphics that take much too long to load, etc.)
    A SonicSite with too many broken graphics and/or links (too many=more than 3)
    A SonicSite with content that has to be rated PG-13 (fanfic authors in paticular)
    A SonicSite with anything that is illegal
    A SonicSite with only graphics, unless it's a fan art page
    A SonicSite that is updated only every 4 months
    A SonicSite that violates the webpage provider's Terms of Service
  • 6.  You don't need graphics to win an award!  If a site is text-only, but has great content, that would win an award--no joke!  Graphics don't always win the award, content does!  Put some cheats on there, maybe some fan-fiction, even some music or news will do.  In any case, give me a reason to stick around your page!
  • 7.  Anyone that takes the award graphic from my or a winner's page, sticks it on their own page, and says "I won the SonicSite award" will be publically humiliated on every Sonic mailinglist, group, and chat room that I can find, plus will lose nomination privilages for exactly 3 months.  Forget about doing that, people; I keep records on who wins and who doesn't!
  • 8.  If you won the award, but want to use a different graphic than what I have, it must be approved by me before you can put it on your page.
  • 9.  The tECHIDNA can--and will--take away a winners' SonicSite award for sites that do not adhere to these regulations later on.
  • 10.  You may challenge my ruling on awarding a site, but do it at your own risk!  Your nomination privilages may be in jeopardy if the challenge is something like this: "I didn't win the award, you're stupid for not letting me win!"
  • 11.  It's required that you have fun! :)
  • 12.  If there are less than 2 different site nominations, the winner will be determined by the tECHIDNA visiting people's SonicSites that are on the HotList.
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    Nominate a Site!

    The time is here--you may now nominate the site of your choice, whether it's yours or somebody else's site (make sure you have their URL handy).

    Here's how you do it:
    1) Get the URL of the site (don't forget the http://)
    2) Use the appropriate application to nominate the site.

    There are two ways to do this:  use the FormMail (a form that sends the nomination by e-mail to me) below, or use my e-mail address link.
    For FormMail:  Make sure you use the right one, there are two: one for "Silver SonicSite" nomination, and one for "Gold SonicSite" nomination.

    FormMail may not be compatible with Netscape/ IE versions lower than 3.0
    Use the email method if you fall in this category.

    3) Submit it, and you're done!
    Remember, you can nominate a site to each one only ONCE in a month!

     

    By FormMail:

    For "Silver SonicSite" Nomination:
     

    Please enter your email address so I can reply to you if this is your own site:

    Enter the site address that I'll review (don't forget the http://), and also other details about that site (is it a fan-art page, etc.):

    For "Gold SonicSite" Nomination:
     

    Please enter your email address so I can reply to you if this is your own site:

    Enter the site address (don't forget the http://), any other details about the site, plus a short explanation of why you nominated that site:

    By E-mail:
    Click on this e-mail link ==> [email protected]
    Be sure to have your URL ready.
    In the subject area, enter the award you're nominating for
    ("Silver SonicSite" or "Gold SonicSite").
    Enter in the URL and other details I should know about the site in the body of your e-mail.

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