New tools added to Must Read subforum, and new Must Read awards granted
I've recently added a bunch of new threads to our Must Read subforum, which contains our best homemade tool builds.
We usually add the Tool of the Week and Best Documented Build winning threads, but I recently queried the database for the posts with the most "Thanks" granted, and then manually reviewed each post's thread for inclusion in the Must Read subforum. While only one tool can win weekly, sometimes multiple great tools are posted in a week's timeframe, so moving them to the Must Read forum allows us to curate them out. Using users' "Thanks" votes to curate these posts worked out quite nicely as a merit-based metric.
Congratulations to our new 10-Time Must Read Discussion award winners, who have had at least 10 of their posts moved into the Must Read subforum: MetalDesigner, astroracer, Christophe Mineau, mklotz. You'll see a new bronze sprocket award in their postbits under their avatars, joining previous winners rgsparber, rossbotics, and Paul Jones. And special congratulations to mklotz, our first and currently only 25-Time Must Read Discussion winner; you'll also see a silver sprocket award in his postbit.
Here are the current counts from the database of usernames and total number of posts in the Must Read subforum:
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+---------------------+-------+
| postusername | count |
+---------------------+-------+
| mklotz | 27 |
| Paul Jones | 21 |
| rgsparber | 16 |
| Christophe Mineau | 13 |
| rossbotics | 13 |
| astroracer | 11 |
| MetalDesigner | 11 |
| Brendon | 8 |
| Frank S | 8 |
| kess | 7 |
| hardtail69 | 7 |
| Captainleeward | 7 |
| mr95gst | 6 |
| Vyacheslav.Nevolya | 6 |
| scorch | 6 |
| machiningfool | 5 |
| morsa | 5 |
If you want to nominate a thread to be moved into the Must Read subforum, simply click the "Thanks" icon in the lower left-hand corner of a post, and the most-thanked posts will be easy for us to review.
