I agree with Death, this is a pointless topic, although perhaps it's good to get it out the way. Wolfpac's awards are good, because they are a more democratic representation of specific Forum activities, but this is just basically a popularity contest - at first I was flattered to be included on the list, and indeed I still am flattered to be considered a 'popular' member of OWF, but I like many members who couldn't be put on the list. Oddsville, for instance, doesn't seem to hang around all that often anymore, but when he's here he always has something useful to say. Hence, it's not really a fair thing to do.
Nevertheless, I voted for Xavier, because he always contributes constructively and goes out of his way to help others.
I also disagree with Death, in that I find going on about how other people have no life, and trying to explain some kind of logic or science behind it incredibly dull, boring and pointless. Jacob used to do it, and I wasn't impressed by it at all. If you think a particular person should 'get out more', fair enough, but there's no need to spout about how having no life means you're obviously a social cripple. That's not exactly going to boost their self-confidence, and it's also incredibly harsh. At the end, we can't control what person we are, fundamentally speaking, so being nasty about things is absolutely uncalled for. I say this as a person who doesn't have the most aventurous time off the Forums or out of school, but I've found a balance between all things (except homework, which I'm lagging in) that suits me.
Sometimes it's good to rant. Especially if you're meant to be doing an essay on Macbeth and the music programme you're using to compose coursework won't insert codas properly.
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