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A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
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Author:  Lizardheim [ Sun Feb 20, 2011 3:00 pm ]
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metal chao wrote:
At the moment there is one contest.

Pfft yeah right.
Author:  Metal Chao [ Sun Feb 20, 2011 3:16 pm ]
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At the moment there is two contest
Author:  Lizardheim [ Sun Feb 20, 2011 3:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
Thanks captain obvious.
Author:  Metal Chao [ Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
Complain when I forget your contest, complain when I acknowledge your contest...
A man can't win in this kind of situation ):
Author:  bioemerl [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
411570N3 wrote:
Can you think of a better reason than 'it sounds awesome'?



it would be..... TOTALLY AWESOME DUDE!!!

on a more serious note, it would make it much easier to organise all the contests, easeier for the newbies to find them, and an explaination of what they are

also it would sort the good mods out (modders work harder on contests)
Author:  Metal Chao [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
bioemerl wrote:
it would make it much easier to organise all the contests, easeier for the newbies to find them, and an explaination of what they are


1) There are two contests, that's basically two threads. That hardly needs much organisation.
2) There are two contests, if a newbie can't find two contests about mods by looking in the forums marked "mods" then I don't think adding a subforum marked "contests" will help them either.
3) If a newbie needs an explanation of what a "modding contest" is past the words "modding contest" then they aren't going to be literate enough to enter anyway.
Author:  Lizardheim [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
FYI they are in general discussion.
Easily buried amongst other threads.
A subforum would attract more attention to them.
Author:  Metal Chao [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
If someone can't be bothered to wade through general discussion, why would they look at subforums?
Author:  Lizardheim [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
Well maybe some people don't know that there's a mod contest :).
Author:  Metal Chao [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:38 pm ]
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The community really isn't that big, I bet if you polled all the active members they'd all be pretty aware that there are mod contests
I mean the fact that some of the topics on the first page of the mod section mention it, sometimes even in the topic title, would probably clue them in even if they didn't. Mods are probably the main reason people sign up, even if it's not why they end up hanging around.

Right now there are six roll to dodge topics in the forum games section.
There are only two contests.
RTD games are evidently at least as popular as contests, surely they should have a subforum too?
Or (more likely) neither of them should!
Author:  Duh102 [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
metal chao wrote:
RTD games are evidently at least as popular as contests, surely they should have a subforum too?

metal chao wrote:
forum games section

I believe you answered your own question.
Author:  Natti [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
Metal Chao, that way you could justify almost any subforums, like dividing the Mod Releases into Large Factions, Total Conversions, Small Add-ons, anything.
Author:  Metal Chao [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
Duh102 wrote:
metal chao wrote:
RTD games are evidently at least as popular as contests, surely they should have a subforum too?

metal chao wrote:
forum games section

I believe you answered your own question.

But they share that with other topics too.
Just like the contests share the forum they are already in.
If it's OK for something with six topics to share forums, surely it's fine for something with only two?

Natti wrote:
Metal Chao, that way you could justify almost any subforums, like dividing the Mod Releases into Large Factions, Total Conversions, Small Add-ons, anything.

Should I just start writing "I am giving a really stupid example in order to prove my point" after every single one of my posts or something
It keeps happening ):

My whole point is that this could justify any subforum
I am implying that because there's just as much merit for an RTD subforum as there is for contests, there shouldn't be a contests forum
Two contests is not enough that it needs the board to be subdivided more than it already is

If you really want to draw more attention to contests, stick a topic at the top of some already existing subform
Oh wait, THAT ALREADY EXISTS.
Author:  Duh102 [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: A Mod Contest Sub Forum?
I was hoping you'd get that your argument half works and feel silly :P
However I'm pretty sure we've established that a mod contest subforum isn't happening, at least not until we have a lot more traffic to the mod contests, so you can feel free to stop flailing about in opposition to them.
Author:  Metal Chao [ Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:57 pm ]
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But I feel honour bound to continue my flailing for as long as I see people flailing back at me from the other side of the great chasm of opposing opinions ):
If I stop posting they win!
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