Possible upcoming Contests planning thread

[Buffalobiian]

So.....are we palming everything to the mods now?

[Archangel]

With great power, comes great responsibility

[Archangel]

Mod powers seems a bit too ambitious Ani, if Abdula won he'd ban everyone who disagrees with him and that would be the end of gotwoot.

An enlarged sig would be troublesome because if it was too big it would stretch out the page.

I'm for:

- Custom titles
- Animated avatars
- Colored / Bold usernames
- Rep boost

Those are listed in order of importance

[shinta|hikari]

The enlarged sig is something like what Lucifus has. He won it in the deadfire sig contest a while ago. I'm not sure if you were around then, but it does not seem to be a problem for him even now.

Rep boost is absurd. It defeats the system entirely, and is probably an option only rep failures would choose.

Animated avatars is a great idea if its possible.

I think the username changes are already being used to identify mods and admins. I would not want a colored one though, since it seems like the user is begging for attention.

[Animeniax]

Aren't we all kind of begging for attention by posting on these forums?

I want an italicized and bolded username. It demonstrates to newcomers that I am different from the other posters here, which would become evident when they read some more of my posts, but I don't want to wait that long for them to recognize the difference.

@The Archangel: they would be limited in their power and scope, like a ban would only last 12 hours or a day.

[Archangel]

A minimod?

[Lucifus]

Thats potentially the best post you've ever made.

I'm for the animated Ava's. Always wanted one.

[David75]

Pleas no, no animated avatars, there are a pain in the eye and I'm so happy this place banned this kind of things. But again that's my only opinion.

Bold username is usually seen as Mod/Admin in many places, don't know if it's possible here.
Larger sig? why not, after all, there's room in the template for a larger sig.

Mod powers? nooo

being able to know who repped you YEEEEESSSS that would be nice after all, this is a weapon of mass felony as of yet

[Archangel]

So are you planning to give prizes to the top 5 or something or just the one that wins?

[XanBcoo]

Just the one that wins.

Don't let that stop you, though. This is supposed to be about having fun, not the payoff.

[Archangel]

Well in that case just go for the custom title, honestly i can't think of anything else i'd like since the animated avatr is only temporal

I don't know how the rest of the forum feels about it ofc, that's just my opinion

[XanBcoo]

OK, Assassin's come up with a running idea for the prize.

Now I just need people to PM me if they're going to be participating. See my thread in GD.

[complich8]

Avatar/sig size increases: we've tested to 125x125 avatars and 125x500 sigs, and both are fine. It's basically 25% larger in every dimension, which doesn't break the layout, and does give you more real estate to work with. Good for the photoshoppers and such, and doesn't do bad things to the forums as a whole.

Animated sig: not gonna happen, those things are evil. Also, enabling that for a single user would be a pain, I think, because it's not a group-specific setting.

Animated avatar and profile pic, on the other hand, is quite doable, and I think is a bit less eye-burningly irritating than animated sigs. I'd allow it. Maybe not in conjunction with the size-boosted avatar/sig combo though.

Seeing rep-givers is doable, but I don't think I like the idea. I'd rather stay clear of that one.

Username markup is admin-set (meaning only me and munsu can apply it, and only the two of us can change it). Giving you a custom username markup would invite lots of annoyance, if you ever got sick of it and wanted to change it, so I don't really want to go there.

As far as mini-mod powers, when I think about any permutation of that that I can come up with, it leaves me with a bad taste about it, so ... probably not.

[Lucifus]

I could never get the 125x125 Avatar thingy to work.
I'd say....we need the okays of the mods for our chosen animation if we roll with it; because quite simply they can be the most annoying things on the web.

I can only imagine what BoC or bagnscapel would grace us with.

[Assassin]

ok so we dont have as many participants as i'd hoped....infact im gonna have to change the original layout of the contest since it doesn't look like we'll have enough people.

Really guys, get off your asses and participate...this is why more contests dont happen, cuz its tough to organize something for like 10 ppl. And honestly, if this is the case then i really dont see another contest happening after this one.

[XanBcoo]

Almost everyone who's posted in this thread has signed up so far.

Shinta|hikari and Ryllharu, I'm looking at you guys.

[Assassin]

We need 24 people to stick to the original layout....go out and advertise you bastards (in the flame pit only though). call your friends, your neighbors, your sisters stalker ex-boyfriend and his cat if need be.

[Animeniax]

To be honest the prize offered is hardly worth the effort of participation. I'll play anyway since I agreed to.

[Buffalobiian]

To be honest the prize offered is hardly worth the effort of participation. I'll play anyway since I agreed to.

I don't think most of us are in for the prize more than the event anyway.

I'll going to start advertising via rep. Give before you get, as they say.

[Animeniax]

Might as well make the contest worthwhile with a nice prize. It will attract more participation than the few it has managed to attract based on how much fun they'd have just competing.