I was supposed to ignore this because of my last exam tomorrow, but something about this post kept nagging at the back of my head to reply like a responsible user.
:V
Xenon wrote...
high_time wrote...
people keep nagging you because they're really waiting for you to step in once again. like someone said, it just doesn't feel the same without you around
Like high said. I bother you about your lack of participation because I want you to. If this event style bothered you so much, you should have said something during the Halloween one. You want a competition and prizes and advertizing? Well, position just opened up, we're hiring. Feel free to fill it. Again, if you want to change the way things are run, then you have to act. Your words alone are meaningless, especially when you are speaking only for yourself so far. If anyone agrees with him, then I want to hear their opinions.
How is there any actual lack of participation? I've been quite active on the Writing forum recently, actually. As I write quite a fucking lot when I RP. Granted you, nor no one reads, but I'm pretty sure I'm writing more than most in the same forum we're talking about here. I'm just not solo-writing because there's nothing enticing in it for me. I'm getting a fair share of criticism when I'm writing with others, so I'm not especially lusting after critiques for now.
Now, I didn't participate on your event and this apparently made you felt disappointed.
What do you expect man, I have 'A' Levels and that definitely takes high priority, so I had to carefully decide what I'd do in my free times while studying.
Writing an entry takes more than just 'on the spot writing' like RPing, a lot of plot ideas, checking if the flow is right, and then how the characters should be behaving, to typo-checking and just straightening everything out in general, while considering the word limit is in order.
I could enter by writing in my spare time, but there were other things I was more interested in, such as my GA RP. I barely have readers, but I like writing with the other cool chaps.
I can enter the Valentines event if I really want to (tomorrow is my last exam for the session), but there's nothing really encouraging in it for me. Sure I can write for the sake of it, but I think for now, with an event like this. It's still a possibility; it's probably not a fact.I have better things to do. Anons and lurkers may think similarly when faced
Oh, and about Solid's event. I wanted to see how it'd play out (he kinda ignored my suggestions when I stated them anyway), turns out there were a few entries from the lurkers... but that's it. Funny thing is, I was about to say that I'll do a Halloween contest since Solid seemed like he couldn't find any potential prizes, but he kinda just went ahead and did it before I could confirm things with him. Well, he wanted to do this, so I didn't blame him nor mentioned a thing about my plans here. There's no real need to, either.
Xenon wrote...
And don't question my knowledge of trolling. My epic signature is clearly the ultimate example. I wanted you to be trolling so you would have a way out and say "Haha, I was joking. Let's have a great time writing whatever we want without the stress of competition," but it looks like you were being serious after all. That's pretty disappointing, there are much better tactful ways of suggesting how this event can be better rather than "fuck this, I'm out." People are trying hard to do this for the subforum and you're trying to shut them down speaking from the peanut gallery. You're not even posting this in the thread itself where it's most important.
Sorry, but that kind of a self-proclaimed 'badass' judge thing doesn't really do a thing, nor does it make you automatically knowledgeable. What does make you knowledgeable from my perspective are my past experiences and interactions with you, via which I got to know what kind of a person you are. In other words I know you better without that, and to think you'd come to such a terrible conclusion sorta baffles me. You want me to do something if I don't like how things are? Well, there really isn't anything I can do now that an event is already up. So stop repeating that, I did gave you my word for the Summer contest It will happen, and I already have some ways to get prize... or are you telling me to drop that and poof? No problem, I can comply to that. I only ever do contests because people like them.
I'm not so low as you imply, that I'd just go and spam my disapproval on his own thread. I know a better place where the host appears anyway. I really don't see the harm because people usually has nothing to talk about in here, but they do lurk this thread regardless.
Xenon wrote...
I love you But that is so random out of the blue. No one wants you to leave. Come on, you think you're standing for the betterment of the section, but clearly the section majority wants to do it this way.
Besides, we are basically banned from front page advertizements from now on, so all advertizing is severely handicapped.
Also, just because there are no prizes or judges doesn't mean someone new won't want to join in. There are even prizes now anyway, if you'd bother to look at the thread again. So, I want you to take a couple deep breaths and work through this with us. You want us to have prizes. People are donating them. What else do you want, judges? Fine, I'll submit a judging curriculum later today and we can all vote in-depth in spelling, grammar, punctuation, story and personal interest. It will be optional because I can't force people to use it. What else should we have, advertizing? Alright, go to the places you regularly visit elsewhere in the forum and invite people to join, or do as high does and invite people from outside the site.
I'm trying to work with you here, and I don't want you to get upset, but you have to be willing to work with us half-way to make what you want a reality.
A ban of front page advertising
from now on? Did Jacob specifically stated this somewhere? :V
High probability someone new won't bother, though. I'm not saying that a contest with prizes has 100% chances of getting new users (it does get not-known people posting entries out of blue, which is not so bad). How do you even think El Chacal started to appear in the subforum? Might wanna try to first get more people, because it's still just a few people posting on most threads. Actually nevermind that, I think it's best if this subforum stays as small as this. Everyone seems to want it to be that way. I literally just realized it, and decided to stop this reply here.
Regarding donation prizes: What? I just went there and he said there won't be any official prizes. If it's about the 'you can give prizes to who you think deserves them' this is a terrible solution, and you know it.
Regarding judging: I wasn't even arguing about it, you can just do a poll, and no, I decided to refrain from trying to improve high's event (which I decided to do in the form of advices), but I'll refrain. Based on my perspective, if a thread is made and done - it's too late to change anything.