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Old 2010-05-08, 23:50   Link #261
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You guys seriously need a SOTW. Week by week contests are a whole lot better. I have a lot of experience with these, so if you guys need any guidance, let me know.
I am not a sig maker but I am curious regardless.

Care to elaborate a bit on this?
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Old 2010-05-09, 02:39   Link #262
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I was viewing the current SOTM voting, and I notice the load of entries. My God. ^_^'

You guys seriously need a SOTW. Week by week contests are a whole lot better. I have a lot of experience with these, so if you guys need any guidance, let me know.
Hell no.

Most of us don't have that much time to participate in SOTW. Not to mention we'd run out of themes rather quickly this way.

It would become a ghost town...
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Old 2010-05-09, 04:18   Link #263
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SotM is fine. SotW is usually very fast and it needs even more organizing. Not to mention participation would drop drastically.
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Old 2010-05-09, 05:16   Link #264
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I agree with sticking with SotM. AnimeSuki is a pretty lowkey place, especially here in Fan Creations. By having a more time intensive SotW, participants would drop and us volunteers who help out with the contest would probably get burnt out or miss deadlines.
We have a wide range of skills in our contests as well, and besides the busy-ness of real life, I can imagine those just starting out in gfx would get overwhelmed with the quicker rate of things. It's nice to give them time to get feedback on their works so they can work on them before submitting final entries.
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Old 2010-05-09, 07:47   Link #265
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I agree with sticking with SotM. AnimeSuki is a pretty lowkey place, especially here in Fan Creations. By having a more time intensive SotW, participants would drop and us volunteers who help out with the contest would probably get burnt out or miss deadlines.
The May SOTM thread not being ready yet is a good example of this.
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Old 2010-05-09, 08:46   Link #266
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Yeah, if it were once a week, a lot of people would not have enough time to finish their entries, and those that do could easily get burned out of it rather quickly.
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Old 2010-05-09, 10:10   Link #267
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The May SOTM thread not being ready yet is a good example of this.
Speaking of this; is it only Solace than can start the entry thread ?
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Old 2010-05-09, 14:22   Link #268
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Oh, thats all cool. I was just saying, you guys had like 15 or so entries? Thats a lot compared to what I'm used to.

And I usually take a good 45 min. or so to make a sig. If some people need a month, thats understandable too.

I just thought it would be worth a shot because I get jittery and I like the week by week process more.
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Old 2010-05-13, 22:52   Link #269
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Speaking of this; is it only Solace than can start the entry thread ?
If someone is allowed to, then I don't see a reason of a entry thread being made late in almost a week.
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Old 2010-05-23, 15:45   Link #270
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Speaking of this; is it only Solace than can start the entry thread ?
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If someone is allowed to, then I don't see a reason of a entry thread being made late in almost a week.
Well, I could ask if others are interested, but I'll just remind everyone that this is volunteer work. Threads aren't always going to be up right away, votes aren't always going to be counted immediately, and entries might not always be finished exactly when the due date passes. If it isn't me it's someone else doing it in their spare time, and I doubt you'll find someone willing to stick around for the little over two years that I have.

Especially in a sig of the week format....the entire reason this is a monthly contest is because everyone would burn out four times as fast, organizers and contestants alike.
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Old 2010-06-09, 13:41   Link #271
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Do you need more volunteer for the SOTM ? Maybe I could help.
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Old 2010-07-08, 15:48   Link #272
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Question can you enter a signature you already made? Before the theme was decided? I doubt it but might as well ask, to make sure.
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Old 2010-07-08, 15:55   Link #273
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As listed in the rules:
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2D. Also in the spirit of originality, new signatures are encouraged. However, if you feel one of your older signatures is perfect for the theme and wish to enter it, you may. Just remember that the signature still has to follow the rules stated above.
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Old 2010-07-16, 22:26   Link #274
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What kind of proof should I provide that I drew it?

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Old 2010-07-16, 23:53   Link #275
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What kind of proof should I provide that I drew it?
Gosh...I'm fascinated by this talk...why give proof? Are you going to shout "I TTLY DREW THIS!!1!" in the SOTM thread while posting your entry? If you just slap the entry there, nothing happens. You don't have to prove anything at all. This rule is simply meant for situations when a person uses a sig that is not his/her and someone else finds out about it (while browsing different forums or things like that), thus disqualifying him/her from SOTM.

And it did happen a few times, so the rule has its meaning.
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Old 2010-07-17, 00:39   Link #276
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Gosh...I'm fascinated by this talk...why give proof? Are you going to shout "I TTLY DREW THIS!!1!" in the SOTM thread while posting your entry? If you just slap the entry there, nothing happens. You don't have to prove anything at all. This rule is simply meant for situations when a person uses a sig that is not his/her and someone else finds out about it (while browsing different forums or things like that), thus disqualifying him/her from SOTM.

And it did happen a few times, so the rule has its meaning.
Yes I was, just spelled correctly and without Caps Cruise Control.
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Old 2010-07-17, 04:48   Link #277
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Yes I was, just spelled correctly and without Caps Cruise Control.


May I ask why you'd do that, for curiosity's sake? If I were to use my own draws in sigs, I wouldn't have the immediate urge to say it's all mine. But hey, people are different, it's just that I can't seem to find a good reason. I mean, it's not like people can reverse engineer the draw from a highly customized sig undamaged so that anybody could steal your work.

So, why exactly?
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Old 2010-08-22, 06:30   Link #278
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Has the possibility of having votes with points been discussed?

For example: at times I want to vote for more then 3, but other times I want to vote for less then 3. So you could give everyone 3.0 points to place on entries. Everyone is allowed to give at most 1.5 for any entry, but can give as little as they want, as long as the total = 3.0 points. So, assuming entries are A to Z you can vote A: 1.5pt, B: 0.5pt, C: 0.3pt, D: 0.2pt, F: 0.5pt.

Or something like that. The idea is to make the voting phase more creative/subjective. Right now it's a little too much like "post-and-forget" and the thread is not that interesting until the counts are in.
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Old 2010-08-24, 00:30   Link #279
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So basically, weighted votes? Sounds a bit complicated to do by hand every month. From the voters perspective, it might be confusing versus the current "pick up to three" system.
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Old 2010-08-29, 05:15   Link #280
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Sounds a bit complicated to do by hand every month.
Arguably you shouldn't be doing it by hand now either. I can make a tool to help you with counting, but why aren't you using NightWish's voting counter thing? Didn't he finish it?

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From the voters perspective, it might be confusing versus the current "pick up to three" system.
They can stick to the current simple system. Using points can be optional.
  • you vote 3 sigs then they all get 1pt each
  • you vote for 2 sigs they get 1.5pt each
  • you vote for one 1.5pt for it

The problem I see with the current system is actually the hole "pick 3" thing. Can you answer me why exactly it's "pick 3"? Looking at the general voting pattern if you had people pick 2 or pick 4, you would get completely different results. Picking anything more then 1 should be weighted. Speaking of which, why not pick 1 anyway? would certainly make your life easier.
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