Who the hell are you, and what have you done with Soze?!

BWHAHAHAHA! Profound!

it must have been one of the voices (aliases) in her head

wrong. there is no argument...

This site gives you a source, you do with it what you want, but you must use something. Thats the contest! Even if its just using the source as a template for another creation...(showcase will disagree with that last statement) either way "The source is King" here.

Its not photoshop what ever how ever the hell you want contest.

I think the simplest answer to your question is that most don't care how much external sources are used and simply vote for what they think looks best in the end result, without giving much thought to how difficult the chops must have been to create.You only see people getting called out for not enough source by the few people who do think that there should be much more source. A couple people can make a lot of noise, especially on this site.

Honestly, I don't vote for an image because of the source at all. I vote for attractiveness to the eye and orignal ideas, or something dark and scary, hee-hee.

ALL SOURCE SATURDAYS (A.S.S.)...sounds good to me.

that's TOO true and makes a lot of sense.

That I don't get at all. It's the nature of the beast that the less source you use the easier it is, occasionally someone does something brilliant with very little source, BUT they do THAT in PS...more commonly they get credit for found sources that the whole chop relies on--most often the little piece added from start source has little effect on the great found source.
which brings us right back to this very accurate statement....

That certainly would be fun to do once in a while--
I'd even join in on a "DARK" chop day--
many of us have never done a dark chop at all...
i did once.....I think it scared people.
A skin disease day would be a blast, and a robot day...
it'd be fun to do cliches on purpose....together. IMHO.

Old Soze is death Scion!!!!!!
I'm the new one. I better person...
you can be sure of that!!!!!!!!!!!

Incorporate yourself into a chop day, haha

Those are some good ideas and I think it would make the contests a bit more challenging and fun to have a theme every now and then.

No one can say if Shaman , Anfa, Scion, Arcaic............and all the others had in the past any aliases hahahahahahahaha.
Is sure that Soze had it!!!!!!!!!!!
Had
Had
had!!!!
What is done is done. Now I'm another Soze OK?

That's precisely what I mean. Maybe I didn't word that second part very well, but that's what I was getting at with my first post; In general, most people don't vote based on the work, they vote on the eye-candy factor of a chop, even if it has very little source. I don't criticize the chops that use only a small amount of source if the source is what gives the outside source image it's wow factor. Likewise, I don't think chops that use a pretty outside source as their main vote-getter by just adding in source into the background or relatively insignificant spots just so "the source is used." Now, there are always exceptions, but like I said, I'm speaking of the entire thing in general, no chops specifically.

yeah, those exceptions are rare, but usually stinking brilliant....
L@Rue could pull that off any time he pleases.
...and/or Mightybeet and Beefhead.

It's really hard to keep up with this thread while drawing naked pictures of Chicken for the chat.

maaaan...stop reminding me that I can't visit the real chat anymore.