Alright. Lets see what happens with March and then go another route, whether it be quarterly or whatnot. I have a feeling it will still be slow, but you never know.
:IMonthly isn't working. Monthly has been proven not to work. Right now it's not a matter of choosing to do monthly or quarterly, it's a matter of doing the contest at all. Now is not the time to try another monthly contest. It failed.
I don't understand why do you (plural 'you', not just Jmorphman) think this is going to work in june if it doesn't work right now. I don't think people will rush like crazy to the nomation topic just because there are more stages released.
I say just give it time. Either it will work out or not. Character of the Month has had slower months every now and then as well, so this Stage of the Month thing isn't that much different. Let's see how March turns out. Three replies today thus far, and I'm going to chime in with my own nominations shortly.
Character of the month never had months as bad as the last two stage of the months. The Mysterious Fubini said, April 05, 2014, 06:10:11 pmI don't understand why do you (plural 'you', not just Jmorphman) think this is going to work in june if it doesn't work right now. I don't think people will rush like crazy to the nomation topic just because there are more stages released.Well, I was imagining a rule change to go along with it, something along the lines of what Lith described. People clearly aren't that interested in nominating stages but I'm hoping that getting to the voting stage with a good amount of entries, people will vote for something. I definitely think it's worth a shot to try and save this thing, but to do that we need to radically rethink things. And doing another monthly contest isn't gonna do that.
Lith has a point, becauseDalek Basara said, April 05, 2014, 04:43:31 amI think the reason this didn't work is because the only ones who post about stages on releases are the creators themselves, there's almost no threads about outsiders releasing stages so no one have idea about people making stages but the 3-4 people actually make stages hereI got a point too and seems nobody read it
@Saikoro: Let's just hang it up for this month, man. Try JMorphMan's idea if you want it to possibly survive. Letting it stay on life support too long hurts the COTM awards as well. JMM's idea might not work either but it's better to try it at this point than to keep it going another agonizing month before you try his idea.
Snakebyte said, February 22, 2014, 08:25:29 amI actually like Stage of the Quarter.CalledSnakebyte said, February 23, 2014, 07:46:14 pmI still prefer Stage of the QuarterItedit: wait, wait, I know I've got another one somewhereSnakebyte said, February 09, 2014, 09:18:12 pmCharacters are released way more frequently than other things. I think this should be a thing, but only yearly.there we go
Well, the decision is pretty clear here.With that said, how do we go about signifying someone won Stage of the Month/Quarter/etc.?? I see the nifty looking trophy for Character of the Month. How will we handle this for stages??
Same thing just different color, that is if this continues. Looking at it I just don't think it's going to be a thing.
There's two other trophies uploaded, one was gonna be for monthly and one way gonna be for yearly; the former can be used for quarterly.Lith said, April 08, 2014, 07:08:06 amLooking at it I just don't think it's going to be a thing.Can't hurt to try out a quarterly thing. We should keep in mind the problems the monthly ones ran into; namely the nomination process. Hopefully people are more liable to quickly vote in a poll than they were trying to remember what stages were released when and making a post nominating specific ones. So self-nomination seems to be the way to go (dunno how to handle found stages though, I guess we could let regular users nominate them, with only 2 votes for it to become a nominee?) Run the nomination process for 15 months, no limit to self-nominees.We should also try getting the word out to the stage creators, like make it thread of the week, maybe post in the screenshots thread and random topic, or something.
If you can get quarterly to be thread of the week then sure this could be worth a shot. Might as well do it now, sorry Sai gonna can your nomination and voting threads since they're making no progress.Question, how many entries would be good?
If we're gonna do self-nomination I don't think there should be a limit, but since we need to include found releases there should probably a limit for those, maybe? I dunno I'm tired.
I suppose... I can't say I really want to have a huge poll with tons of entries but hey I doubt most people will care about it so I suppose not having a limit wouldn't hurt..
Maybe I'm misjudging things but it doesn't seem like there would a gigantic list if everyone was limited to one; the number of stage creators seems much lower than character creators. I think?
We're almost done with this year, would like to get some feedback on how the contest is so far. I am making this thread so early because I would like to start the entering phase forQ4 a bit earlier than the deadline as I see people forgetting about this or not being aware of it and by the time they do know about the contest it's too late and they have to wait 3 months to enter, I don't like that, but first I want to get some input on if it's a good idea or not.So basically I'm just asking on how this could be improved for 2015. The remainder of this year will be the same to be consistent but I would like to improve this since I don't think it's quite what it could be yet.
