Neko wrote:OK, I realize now that I did choose a lousy theme and many of you have voiced your opinions and I've heard them.
Lapse Of Reason's post (Didn't get you're PM yet. Got one from 1337W422102 though) and others I feel some reforms are in order.
How would you all feel if this contest was canceled so I could do some more work on it? I feel I may have gotten overexcited about bringing the contest back and did so without it being fully ready.
Decepticon Spike would still guest judge when they contest starts again.
If you're all willing I'd like to recieve your suggestions and ideas for the contest (anything about the contest!) that would help improve it as a whole and expand people's enthusiams for it. Send me a PM with your suggestions or post them here!
If enough of you respond I'll decide what to do, but if not the contest will resume and we'll try the reforms with next month's contest.
Neko, I do not know what happened to my PM to you. It does not show up in my outbox or sentbox. It was about a page long too! Oh well.
In short, I mentioned that the theme is fine but the rule of not allowing other action figures to represent human characters is a very unwelcome limitation. Unwelcoming enough for me to be totally turned off by the theme this month. A LEGO head or hand-drawn figure posed with Transformer toys is not going to look good at all. You can see my other post on page three for a better rationale of why other figures should be used and how they can be used to enhance, not distract.
I also mentioned that the contest appears to not be very well thought out. Ideas were solicited and not used (which you explained, so okay). The due date was not provided in the original post (you fixed that too). Another point I wanted to make now, though,is that due date is too far away.
The problem with the previous photo contest is that you'd get a bunch of entries in the first week to ten days, and then only a few would trickle in over the remaining few weeks. Then the judging would take several weeks. Sometimes five weeks would pass between a photo entry and the final results. When people have to wait long, interest wanes.
If I were you I'd have the contest last ten days and have the judging done within four days after the end (even if not all of the judges voted yet).
I'd also change the no action figure rule. As you can see, not many people are entering. Change the rule and they will come.
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