badcop wrote:
While I don't see participation returning to 2007 levels, growth is an attainable goal.
I just don't think source images are the real problem here.
BC, I appreciate your going through the old contests. I had started doing that too to prove the same point, and then I decided... It's not worth the effort...
It isn't that the source images are his problem... His problem lies with PSC allowing us (the advantage end user) the right to vote on said source images... He thinks that PSC should choose the source images for us, because we're voting for the same images over and over again... He also thinks because we (the advantage memebers) are voting for these images that we are having more fun, because we've voted for these things and thus must like chopping them more than the ones who aren't getting the right to vote on them.
He thinks we vote on an image, and the winner gets put in the next date in line (example using 30 days from today) Sept. 2nd to chop. What he fails to realize is once we vote on an image it sits around in a randomized que until it finally gets spit out onto the 30 day board. It could take months for today's voted picture to get on the chopping board...
He also fails to realize when we don't vote for a source image, (say a car), that car will never make it to the que and eventually the board, to get chopped. If you take out our voting, and just let PSC handle it... EVERY image approved by PSC will eventually get onto the board to be chopped. Its just a matter of when...
I've had 7 source images (Rock Owls, Goslings, Twenty Inches, Cannon Overlook, Chop The Shaman, Down The Drain & Castle Tower) approved by the mods and then voted by advantage members for chopping... The first two of those were from the Spring... none of these have made it to the 30 day board yet. His whole argument is flawed.
What it really boils down to is there aren't source images that
he likes to chop coming up enough... therefore he's not having any fun... So he thinks no one else is having fun, and that is why everyone left. Never mind everyone's explanations... Work, Family, new hobbies etc...
