Trophies

[RemyZee]

I just learned I was awarded an e trophy from autism forums! Why am I so weirdly excited about that? It is my first-ever-in-59- years-of-life trophy and I like it.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

The only trophy I ever won was for shooting, It did not even have my name on it. One of my kids broke it years later.

 

[FilterFreq]

I've never won a trophy so you are both way ahead of me

 

[SusanLR]

I won a trophy medal from a Relay for Life event.
Fifteen years survivor/remission after liver cancer.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Tropies are awarded by other members, who were impressed by what you wrote, or it stuck a nerve with them.
Just looked so far managed to get 177 of them.

 

[Nitro]

Tropies are awarded by other members, who were impressed by what you wrote, or it stuck a nerve with them.
Just looked so far managed to get 177 of them.

Not exactly.
Our software is set up to automatically award trophies.
We do not have a demerit system in place and never did.
That's not what a support forum is supposed to be about.

Act the fool here and you will get reprimanded, but that has no bearing on the rewards.
Get too stupid and you end up on the outside looking in.

Our trophy system is based on participation.
As a matter of fact, I hold the honor of having been awarded the most trophy points ever on this forum.

These examples are the highest trophy points ever awarded on this forum which include Brent, our former owner and several other staff members.

I have been a member here for ten years and about eight months.
My time here allowed me to collect every trophy in our system except one.
The only way I can increase my trophy score here is to link my profile here to Facebook, something I'm not likely to ever do.

 

[Nitro]

I won a trophy medal from a Relay for Life event.
Fifteen years survivor/remission after liver cancer.

Awesome!
TBI survivor here who they had to jump-start twice in an operating room.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Thanks for clarifying, not into computers or using face book. I guess being a closet extravert, increases my participation rate.

 

[Cutesie]

As a constant childhood reader, I performed well in spelling bees, often winning the ones that we had in class. We received treats or awards. When I once won, the teacher never got around to giving me the prize - a large black and white cookie - and I didn't bring it up.

My brother Byron, who was more bothered by the injustice, still occasionally mentions this incident. That I didn't get the prize is what keeps us remembering my victory over 25 years later.

 

[RemyZee]

As a constant childhood reader, I performed well in spelling bees, often winning the ones that we had in class. We received treats or awards. When I once won, the teacher never got around to giving me the prize - a large black and white cookie - and I didn't bring it up.

My brother Byron, who was more bothered by the injustice, still occasionally mentions this incident. That I didn't get the prize is what keeps us remembering my victory over 25 years later.

I wonder why people remember prizes so much--I was given a medal for a spelling bee and wore it all over town, then kept it until my 50s. I would still have it, but it was lost during a move.

 

[Italianbratxoxo]

I just learned I was awarded an e trophy from autism forums! Why am I so weirdly excited about that? It is my first-ever-in-59- years-of-life trophy and I like it.

I have a 3rd place medal from a Taekwondo Tournament I did when I was a white belt. I’m pretty proud of myself.

 

[Shevek]

Chuck Yeager won the Collier Trophy for aviation, presented by Ike Eisenhower. He put it in his garage. Then, when he had a handful of bolts to keep together, he used the cup.
I worked very hard for a couple of trophies, and hoped they would bring opportunities, but they just gather dust now.

 

[Judge]

Chuck Yeager won the Collier Trophy for aviation, presented by Ike Eisenhower. He put it in his garage. Then, when he had a handful of bolts to keep together, he used the cup.
I worked very hard for a couple of trophies, and hoped they would bring opportunities, but they just gather dust now.

General Yeager would have made modesty itself blush.

 

[Nitro]

I used to run trophy class in NHRA dragracing.
It was a bracket racing class where you were mostly looking to gain consistency because basically you were running against your own best dial-in.
Most of the time it was purely test and tune runs on a budget.
There were test and tune sessions available, but only available one day during the week when there was no eliminations.
Work usually said no to week nights at the track because no work, no money no more racing.
My ex was a dragstrip widow during racing season.
She went a few times, but really didn't like it.

She wasn't real good with a camera either.
(my 1966 Caprice during a dry-hop after lighting the tires in the waterbox)

Trophy class enabled me to run several rounds during qualifying and as many as I could after eliminations began.
Completing two successful rounds of eliminations earned you a trophy.
So it wasn't really a real prize in my eyes, it was a participation trophy.

From the very beginning, I always handed my trophies across the fence to a younger spectator as possibly an inspiration to become a future competitor.

The real trophy to me was getting to take your car down a track where the name of the game was to go as fast as you can.

 

[grommet]

I just learned I was awarded an e trophy from autism forums! Why am I so weirdly excited about that? It is my first-ever-in-59- years-of-life trophy and I like it.

What do they mean?

 

[RemyZee]

I guess they mean you've done something people like, which could be why I am sorely lacking in trophies. Or I guess they could mean you've won at something.

 

[Cutesie]

What do they mean?

See the comment by @Nitro (from 11!/27) above.