Posted February 18, 2009 (edited) UPDATE April 3rd: ARK is back and once again under new nomination. Please see the posts further down in the thread about our updates - we are looking for YOUR feedback! We are planning on posting all old nominations, then we wish to create a new thread with a fresh start. So please DO NOT send in nominations at this time! We promise, we will take your nominations again soon! Thanks for bearing with us! ------ Welcome, one and all, to the official Acts of Random Kindness thread. The idea of this thread is to bring together a community of individuals that constantly helps one another out in small ways, more often then not without ever being recognized for them. It is a way for us to put forth the names of those who have helped us without asking for anything in return. ARK is by forum members, for forum members and groups. Forum moderators have no say in ARK nominations or awards. If a moderator wants to nominate, they have to abide by the same guidelines and rules as everyone else. Here's our new shiny ARK badge that Fiona BlueFire made for us: These are just some basic rules of thumb to remember! No Drama! All nominations must be PMed to count. Please title your nominations with the person's username that you are nominating. Please be as specific as possible - there have been nominations like "I nominate XXX for all the kindness he/she has shown to me and other forum members." That's great, but please tell us more about that kindness! No begging to be nominated. You need to earn the nomination. If you are nominating about a surprise, you must be the receiver of said surprise. If someone is on the list but still performed a random act of kindness, you can still post about their act of kindness as long as it passes the qualifications. Try to keep chat and grats to a minimum. There is a Congratulations thread where you can congratulate people there. If you are newly listed on ARK, don't forget to check on the congrats thread too! If you make it onto the ARK list, you will be PMed the Symbol of ARK and may use it on your sig to show you did a good random deed for someone and was acknowledged for it. If you use the Symbol of ARK award and have not been officially recognized on the list, you may be grey or blacklisted and any future chances at winning the award may be compromised. Qualifications We of the ARK Team compiled a list of things that do and do not qualify for nominations to make it easier for us and for you. Please read these very carefully. If something you have in mind is not listed on either one, feel free to send in the nomination, which it will be discussed amongst the team. A list of things that do qualify: Randomly gifting an egg to someone when they didn't ask for it. The nominee catches a holiday egg and randomly gifts it to someone and they aren't apart of a catching group. Returning an accidentally auto abandoned egg caught in the AP. The nominee surprises someone by making them a banner, avatar, scroll image, etc. for their signature, etc. when they didn't ask or know the nominee was going to make them one. Randomly, out of the blue doing a good deed to brighten someones day or helping someone that needs help in the forum or DC. (Not someone that is affiliated with the Mentoring Project, or during a trading situation.) ONLY Moderators may nominate groups. If you think a group deserves an ARK award, you should contact a global mod with your request telling the mod why the group should be awarded an ARK. The mod can then judge the request to nominate the group. A list of things that DO NOT qualify: Nominating yourself or a family member. The nominee returning an accidentally abandoned egg caught in the AP after you messaged them and asked them to give it back, or if a reward was handed out for the lost egg. Allowing a catcher to use your scroll will not be rewarded. Any nomination involving a catcher will be ignored. This is neither legal in the game nor is it random. Anything from The Giving Tree or game-like topics. Asking for an egg in a gifting thread is not random. An ARK award will not be given as a reward for fulfilling a request that has been posted publicly. If you require a reward for a gift or return, this turns it into a trade which is not valid for the ARK award. A mentor teaching the nominator about Dragon Cave. How To Nominate If you feel your nominee qualifies for a nomination by you, here's a few simple steps on how to nominate someone via PM! Step 1: To start a PM to Acts of Random Kindness, you can either click the PM button at the bottom of a post done by ARK, go to the profile for ARK and click Private Message, or go to your Inbox, click Compose Message, then type Acts of Random Kindness in the space where you are to enter a name. Step 2: Once the PM is set up, click the empty Message Title box and type in the name of the person you are nominating. Step 3: Click the big blank space. This is where you will type up your nomination. Include the name of the person you are nominating, what they did that was a random act of kindness, and perhaps a link to show where this occurred(this last bit is optional). Please be as specific as possible and describe what the nominee did to deserve the award as detailed as you can. Be sure to proof read your nomination to make sure its good enough for us to understand, even if your english isn't very good. Step 4: Scroll down and simply click send! And there ya have it! That's how to send in your nomination! Pretty easy, right? Thank you everyone for your suggestions and patience during updating, we do listen! ARK award badges Do NOT use them if you haven't been given the ARK award. 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Our awesome new shiny ARK award, created for us by Fiona BlueFire: [IMG=http://orig08.deviantart.net/9fa7/f/2015/254/7/2/arktrophy_by_dragonarts-d99895t.png] The awesome ARK LISTED award created for us by Sif: [IMG=http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx193/arkatdcforum1/ARK%20Awards/ARK2-1.gif] And our beautiful Honorable Mention Star created for us by Whispyr. An Honorable Mention Star is given to someone who has already received the award, when they are nominated again. [IMG=http://i755.photobucket.com/albums/xx193/arkatdcforum1/ARK%20Awards/DoubleGoldstar5.png] An option for ARK Honorable Mention Members put together by Shichibi and generously shared for other Honorable Mention Members to use if they would like. Thank you very much Shichibi! 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Posted February 18, 2009 (edited) Official ARK Listers The GOLD STAR shows when a person has an Honorable Mention which means they have been nominated and approved more than once. 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Please keep those wonderful nominations coming, we look forward to hearing from you! Edited April 19, 2017 by Acts of Random Kindness Share this post Link to post
Posted July 31, 2012 (edited) ARK LIST UPDATE New Members - 10 Celesteon Dsnake1 girlgamerjen Lelyn Scyleia Shadow-Lugia-XD001 Shroomlet wynterborne Xaesha yuumei Honorable Mention Members - 13 Ae0nian alicit cajunsun diannethegeek fainewebbe GathersScrolls Kelkelen lanette Lyricmaniac MaximumOccupancy thenameisplissken Xylene yieldy Welcome to the ARK and thank you New ARK members, and thank you again returning (Honorable Mention) members, for the good deeds and gifts that you shared with others. You each touched someones heart and brightened their day with your gifts and/or help so they want your name placed on the ARK List so everyone will know that you are a kind and sharing person and you deserve to be recognized for your acts of random kindness. Thank you to everyone that sent in your nominations! Please keep those wonderful nominations coming! Edited August 1, 2012 by Acts of Random Kindness Share this post Link to post
Posted May 12, 2013 (edited) Happy Mothers Day! ARK LIST UPDATE New Members - 9 chariset Duysterwald linda3.0 Milkaq66 pikapika555 Quitter Rare_Hunter21 Velvet_paw xxBurningxx Honorable Mention Members - 10 aangs-sister (Nominated and approved twice this month!) arlymaye becka drabrugon dragoness22 Hailwidis MaximumOccupancy MisunderstoodDreamer RainStar13 (Nominated and approved twice this month!) Tabitah Welcome new ARK Members we are very happy to have you join our list! Hello also ARK Honorable Mention Members, we are very happy to add your name again! The people that nominated you always say that they want you to know how much your random kind act meant to them. You made their day better, you took your time to teach them how to succeed in the game and you gave them faith again in the kindness of strangers. Your Random Acts of Kindness are appreciated more than you know. Also we want to thank all of you that sent in nominations for generous and kind players that have done random deeds that meet the ARK qualifications and should be included on the list, we greatly appreciate your time and effort. Please keep those nominations coming in, we very much look forward to hearing from you! Edited May 28, 2013 by Acts of Random Kindness Share this post Link to post
Posted October 12, 2015 (edited) We are almost done with the backlog, and new awards will be sent out soon. There have been some nominations that we had to reject due to lack of information. Here are some examples: "I would like to nominate X to ARK as a thank you for her generosity and kindness to me and other members of DC!" "Y gifted a whole lot of hatchies." While we are sure that the nominated users are generous and kind persons, nominations for ARK should be more specific: - include lineage links to the gifts you have received - specify what sort of kindness you experienced with the nominated user, give us some examples - some users have sent screenshots of pm's with their nominations, which absolutely great as proof of kindness for us Please understand that we cannot accept nominations with too little information. If you recognize one of the above nominations as yours, or if you are unsure whether your nomination was specific enough, you are free to resubmit at any time Edited October 12, 2015 by Acts of Random Kindness Share this post Link to post
Posted November 15, 2015 OMG. I just got a PM from ARK saying that I have been nominated again As usual, I have no idea what did I do to deserve it, I enjoy breeding and helping other players. Whoever you are, thank you so much for making my day Share this post Link to post
Posted November 15, 2015 ARK LIST UPDATE New members dragonsrus Ansela Jonla MessengerDragon webcowgirl DragonRoz nextavengers VampiricOmen egwenna Igoreete Ran RecycledHeart (pm box full!) fergalicious214 Honorable mention members Naughtrish Mystic_Halo Viar Pinch of StarDust Laura-Lana shadesofchaos olympe ainisarie Tecca Fiona Bluefire Thank you all for your generosity and kindness towards other members. Share this post Link to post
Posted November 15, 2015 I got an ARK email as well! How exciting! I wonder if it was the random Halloween hatchies I gave away to people, or the four red hatchies I gifted a DC newbie just before Halloween ("You'll be needing these!")? Share this post Link to post
Posted November 15, 2015 Of all the private messages I expected to receive, a message from ARK was certainly not on the list! I'm not sure what I did to warrant a nomination and I'm not sure I'll ever find out, but to whomever nominated me, thank you. I don't have much to say about this (rendered speechless over here), other than that my week has well and truly been made. Congratulations to the other recipients, and thank you to those who nominated them too. Thanks as well to the people behind ARK for continuing this project! Share this post Link to post
Posted November 16, 2015 I woke this morning to find a wonderful message and a new ARK badge. Many thanks to who ever nominated me. I've been very ill since July and still on bed rest... It means a lot to me and really makes me very very happy Congratulations to the other ARK precipitants! Share this post Link to post
Posted April 4, 2017 We're baa-aaack! ARK is once again under new management. Thanks to TJ, we were able to access this account and so all the old nominations are still in tact! We are currently exploring the new account and getting used to it, but we already have a few thoughts on how to handle the future of ARK. However, as ARK is by and for forum members, we'd like to get general input from you on if you'd be okay with these changes! Depending on how you kind folk feel, we can go into more detail later, but the main question we would like to put forth is: Would you, the benefactors and reason that ARK exists, be okay with ARK starting over? What we would like to do is clear out all the old nominations and announce them here. However, after that, due to the past struggles of inactivity, we think ARK might benefit from a fresh start: a whole new thread, updated banners and badges, and perhaps even some updated rules. This thread would become an archive of sorts. We could certainly save the list of past winners somewhere as a backup so that users can always reference this thread and the original ARK listers. This would mean that the new thread would start fresh with no previous winners list except the archive saved here in this thread/the backup. We believe that a fresh start might help breathe some fresh life into this project. But we will absolutely not move forward if the majority of forum members are not okay with this. We are excited to get ARK back up and running! Your acts of random kindness have not stopped, and we will not stop highlighting and thanking you for your generosity! Share this post Link to post
Posted April 4, 2017 (edited) Great to see you up and running again. About past winners - would you want us to remove old badges from sigs ? as in not show a badge any more unless renominated ?? Just so that's clear - though I imagine that there will be a shedload of people listed ages ago who aren't here any more, so the badges would stay in their sigs anyway - awkward for you. I'd be fine removing mine if that's what is in the end preferred. But yes,. I think it'd benefit from a new beginning. Edited April 4, 2017 by fuzzbucket Share this post Link to post
Posted April 4, 2017 Great to see you up and running again. About past winners - would you want us to remove old badges from sigs ? as in not show a badge any more unless renominated ?? Just so that's clear - though I imagine that there will be a shedload of people listed ages ago who aren't here any more, so the badges would stay in their sigs anyway - awkward for you. I'd be fine removing mine if that's what is in the end preferred. But yes,. I think it'd benefit from a new beginning. Thanks for speaking up (and so quickly)! We are very interested in all feedback. Regarding removing old badges - oh, absolutely not, and sorry if anything we said implied that you would need to! What we'd do is more of a "retirement". Anybody who earned this original ARK badge would be allowed to keep it and display it as they wish. It would be a mark of being an ARK winner between the years of 2009 and 2015 (wow!). New winners, which could (and I'm guessing would) include kind users like yourself who are still active, could display the new badge. So then folk who were also active for this original thread could end up getting to display the original badge and the new badge as they wished. (What we think would be very fun to do to keep this thread alive and breathing is, if there was enough artist interest, change the badge every year, so then the badge/s a user had would be a mark of how long they've been active(ly gifting). Perhaps we could even commission one artist a year and pass on the kindness ourselves.) Share this post Link to post
Posted April 4, 2017 No - I can see good reasons to start COMPLETELY over. Which would mean removing old badges, IMHO. I'm sure you can find people to do new badges every year. (I'd volunteer - but I am equally sure you would rather I didn't ) Share this post Link to post
Posted April 4, 2017 (edited) This (aka inactive people with badges) won't be an issue if new/updated badges were dished out from now on. Old winners would still have their glory, and new winners would join that glory with fresh shininess. edit: kinda got distracted by work before posting Edited April 4, 2017 by Ruby Eyes Share this post Link to post
Posted April 6, 2017 We expect to post this thread's last round of ARK listers by early next week, so please get in any further comments on the future of this project this week! Share this post Link to post
Posted April 11, 2017 I'm very glad to see this back. I still have several unread nominations from December 2015 (!), I hope they're not too old to count. I agree that it would be best start over, and shiny new badges sound lovely. (but yes, please do let us keep our old badges... I have no idea how to modify my sig to remove mine! ) One question though: assuming new badges are created on a regular basis (every year? every other year?), would members be eligible again each and every time a new badge is made? 'cause that sounds... crowded. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 11, 2017 I too am glad to see this back up and running! It was a nice thing to see this back when I logged in this morning. Certainly as a person who was nominated in a previous incarnation of this thread, I would like to keep my badge. I don't see a point in starting over completely because that means those of us who are still active would have to earn a badge again. There are pros - and cons - to that. However, I can see the reasoning behind starting the list over again - some of the members on the list may no longer be active (like Fuzzbucket mentioned). Of course that also means that those of us who are active and have been nominated in the past will have the 'old / outdated' badges. Unless you do allow us to have the new badges? I have some nominations too - are we allowed to nominate people yet? Share this post Link to post
Posted April 11, 2017 (edited) I like the idea of changing the badge every year. Keeps things from getting stale. And I would be okay with starting over. Like fuzz says, a lot of users are probably inactive now. Those of us that are not are not about to go all grinchy and refuse to help people because we are not on the list anymore Edited April 11, 2017 by Wiz Share this post Link to post
Posted April 11, 2017 (edited) Speak for yourself You're just hoping for a special grinch badge Edit: I fixed the grammar and stopped putting words in your mouth Edited April 11, 2017 by Wiz Share this post Link to post
Posted April 11, 2017 (edited) You're just hoping for a special grinch badge Edit: I fixed the grammar and stopped putting words in your mouth OOH OOH DO WANT ! Can we have a "terribly rude people earned me" badge thread ? Seriously - while I'd miss my old badge, I can see the logic of pulling them - BUT - there are a LOT of inactive people who have them and wouldn't even know to remove them from sigs - so it might be better to leave them so that anyone who wonders what they are can ask ! Edited April 11, 2017 by fuzzbucket Share this post Link to post
Posted April 11, 2017 Grinch badge! *snickers* I'd probably earn that about once a month. I never used the badhe though I was listed, but I'm in favour of keeping the old ones - they only take up space on the image hoster's site, not on DC Share this post Link to post
Posted April 11, 2017 Very excited to see this place up and active again and look forward and support any new starts as I know it will always honor the original, but sometimes you gotta just freshen up and have a new look for a new more current round of fun and inspiration. And there are so many new people to get involved and thank too! Share this post Link to post
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