SotW and WPotM: Discussion Thread: OLDER THAN BEEJAY

Yup, anything involved with the Super Mario games. Characters, places, items, whatever.

Those participating in the competition are allowed to vote right? Just checking.

Blue, yes, you can vote. Actually, we WANT you to vote. Of course, Pani decided not to bother typing up any rules for it.

Wait, the new theme isn't Mushrooms? Aww... Oh well. Mario games it shall be.

You can use mushrooms as your theme. o_o Like, the Mario mushrooms.

Congrats to Coss.

Might I make a suggestion, Pani, my dear? Perhaps with voting, the names of those who created the sig shouldn't be stated. We can find out who made what at the end of the voting. Instead, it can just be... I don't know sig 1, 2, 3... etc, because knowing who did what can sometimes make people place a vote for who the person is, rather than the quality of the sig, or even overlook a sig because of who the person might be. What do you think? <3

Liah, we actually discussed that earlier. We decided not to bother with keeping names out of it. The reasoning was that we wanted to bring life back to this section. We also wanted to get rid of the "Oh yeah, I'll enter in a month" posts. So that meant posting entries in a thread or else people would never see the contests. And, because people are posting their entries, there isn't much reason to keep names out of this because people can just look at the other thread and know who's who anyways.

If it were showing as a huge issue we would fix it. But last round it was Coss and Blue winning, pretty much tied for the entire thing. This time it's, or it was, Pani, Blue, and Wired tied for the lead. That tally isn't recent cause I haven't been here, but the people leading are different which means that people aren't looking at the names. They are going by the ones they like most, and it appears that the ones winning are the ones that look better anyways. So therefore there isn't a need to keep it anonymous.

Pretty much, it would mean fewer entries and there isn't any real need.

Dog Dog said it perfectly. :P

Okie dokie, though I think my issue is more along the lines of certain people being overlooked due to whatever reputation they have about the forums, which I think is harder to tell than a "I'm voting for my friend" kind of vote. However, 'tis been discussed and I've been reassured that an eye is being kept, so I'll be a content Liah for the time being (:

*hugs Liah*

If it starts turning out that it does turn into that sort of thing, we might try an anonymous submission thing a few times. You have to keep in mind though, a lot of signature makers have a distinct style to their sigs, so most people who frequent the SoI will immediately be able to tell who made what.

We've been hacked!

AKA we've lost posts, threads, and results. Hmm... what to do... *thinks*

I was thinking we try to get back as many of the sigs as we can, leave the thread open until Tuesday or Wednesday, then close it and open the voting thread. I think we can afford to have the voting go a little shorter, since people seem to vote pretty quickly after the thread is up. We can open round 4 when round 3 closes, which is a little less time to submit sigs, but oh well.

Is that good with everyone? :P

I'd say put Round 4 entry back up since people have already seen it. Maybe PM the people who's entries disappeared from Round 3 and tell them to resubmit. The put voting for 3 back up after those last three entries are back.

If I knew everyone who had entered round 3 that would be a good solution. :P

I assume that there is a copy of all the signatures in their individual hosting servicfces, or at least on the harddrives of their creators?

Let's try and recover as many as we can and go from where we left off.

Round 3: man_with_thooo, Zien, muzz, Cobra, Lexi, Moop, Asci, Revo, sugarpoultry, Wiianator, Umi, Wired, and me.

Round 4: Ranil, Coss, and Moop had already submitted.

Originally Posted by Quantumplation

Round 3: man_with_thooo, Zien, muzz, Cobra, Lexi, Moop, Asci, Revo, sugarpoultry, Wiianator, Umi, Wired, and me.

uh-hum.
I too, had entered ;]

Originally Posted by Wired

uh-hum.
I too, had entered ;]

Taha.

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Anyway, I say PM everyone, give it until Wednesday to recollect all the entries (if it doesn't happen sooner), then restart the voting and run it until Saturday as usual. We'll get back on track pretty easily.

Okay, I've been busy with some stuff and haven't put up threads. ;x How would everyone feel about just waiting until the normal time and then starting round 4?

Originally Posted by Panique

Okay, I've been busy with some stuff and haven't put up threads. ;x How would everyone feel about just waiting until the normal time and then starting round 4?

Soo, wait until the normal time then start the SoTW 4 entry thread and the SoTW 3 voting thread? That would be fine with me.