STI recognition award and logo;please provide your comment

[svxistentialist]

We recently made some changes and improvements that we promised. One of these was the new STI award system using a logo we designed:



This logo contains the initials STI, which we "borrowed" from Subaru Technica International, the rally development wing of Subaru. The logo is designed in the style used for Giugiaro badges, again for obvious reasons as the man designed the original show version of our SVX.

This badge or logo was proposed and developed by the admin team in order to give long overdue recognition to the wonderful work of many members in giving their time and expertise to the general membership of the Network.

While the response and constant communication from all of the SVX family out there is what keeps this forum alive and vibrant, I'm sure you will all agree that there is a core group of responders that has given great service to the membership down through the years. The rest of us rely on these people who are so generous with their time and with their expertise.

They have served the SVX community both with technical innovation such as changing to manual gearboxes and so on, the writing up and posting of "How Tos" for problems that we all experience, or for simply knowing how to fix our mechanical problems when we post a call for help and describe our problems.

RSVX outlined how the award applied to an initial group that we admins and mods selected based on our knowledge of their input down through the years. This initial group includes the following:

• Huck369, inventor of the 5 Speed Swap.
• LAN aka "longassname", for all ECUTune has offered the community.
• SVXfiles aka "Old Tom", for various gear swaps and other mods.
• Stevebsy, for the prototype body panels and front bumper.
• SVXdc, for the stereo harnesses.

The following four are for technical advice and assistance:

• Beav
• Harvey aka "oab_au"
• Trevor
• TomsSVX

As we mentioned in the "Changes" sticky, this award is on a beta test basis and we hope you understand the reason behind it and we would like your input so that we can refine the award system and ensure that the people looking after your SVX problems get the Network recognition they deserve.

Trevor who is very generous with his time and expertise declined the award. Trevor modestly suggests that response to problems technical or otherwise is essential on the Network, and we wish there were many more who think like him. Tom [Tomsvx] also declined although many appreciate his past and current input to the Network.

The award is designed to acknowledge significant input by various members down the years. It is not intended as the equivalent of a technical qualification, nor is it intended to imply that people wearing the logo are infallible on technical points. This is an amateur Network composed of people with a common interest in the SVX helping one another to keep their cars alive and in good condition.

What the logo does represent is the recognition by the Network and the membership of the volume and quality of help from certain individuals over the history of the forum.

We would like your comment on whether you like the idea of the logo. We would also like to hear if you believe there are other members deserving of recognition based on significant technical input.

The more comment we receive from you, the better the award system will work.

Thank you.

The Admin team.