Creative Contests
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First of all, I know I already suggested this idea a couple of years ago. However, opinions do change, so I thought I'd suggest this again.
I'm a writer and I'm sure there are a lot of other users who are too. I think it would be awesome if we could have writing contests. Like, a short story contest, where every week someone's story gets published on the site. Or a storytelling contest similar to the one Neopets runs. A poetry corner, where the best poems get published every week.
And also art contests, for all the artists out there.
I think that Subeta is really lagging in this aspect of the site. It needs something new, fresh and exciting, and I honestly think this is the way forward.
Thanks for reading :)
This is basically all stuff you can do with your pet profiles for the Pet Spotlight anyway, so I don't see much need for separate contests. Just feels like this would add more work for staff who have to review these things.
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I get your point, but not everyone can code, and not everyone has the money to hire someone to code for them. I just think having separate contests would appeal to different kinds of users, who have other talents.
no offense, , i agree with .
what i think that should/could be done is to award the pet spotlight to pets that have only an amazing story/art/poem.. and a combination of the above. there are many tutorials teaching us how to code. for instance i did my own user profile, and i think a few pets too. my skills are not spotlight worthy, indeed, but i just didnt want the default ones :P if i had the energy to code further, i may commision better art and do my own coding. [oops, derailing]
idk about a reoccurring contest that occurs each week but I think incorporating these kind of contesty things more in events sounds like fun(depends how it's executed of course)
- That's a good idea, but I'd still like separate contests. Each to their own :)
- This sounds like a good idea :)
The problem I've always had with writing contests is that if you're not judging it in a pure sense of the merit of the writing, then it's potentially too subjective. Maybe my writing submission is a very stylized stream of consciousness sort of thing, but the staff member who reads it doesn't get into the abstract thing so mine would be passed over pretty swiftly. Or the same case if I write straight prose, but the reader has a bias towards poetry. In art contests, objectivity is often a problem if somebody isn't properly instructed in multiple art forms - that's why in most legitimate writing or art contests, the MULTIPLE judges are often cross-educated to accommodate as many conceivable platforms as possible.
It strikes me that this type of artistic contest would be more suited to the forums.
- Fair point. I'm basically going on the success and popularity of these sorts of contests on Neopets. I've been a member there for almost 12 years and these contests have been going on for longer than I've been around. They're still extremely popular, with more and more new faces popping up all the time. I understand that there are going to be cons, but I still think the site could benefit from something like this.
Yes, I'm unfortunately very familiar with that site, though I've been away from it for about four or five years now. But this is something to consider, in comparison to the two sites and their capabilities: Neopets has the dedicated staff that they can put just to the contests, and actually at one point I had applied to staff there specifically because they had an opening for content screening of creative processes, and I was told that without a background in whichever contest I was applying for, I was "not an ideal candidate to fit the needs of the company at the current time". Believe me, impartiality is easier when they're cherry picking people who have post-secondary education, even just a bit, in the art forms they'll be judging. As far as I am aware, Subeta doesn't have the means to employ creative content judges that they've ensured have a proper background in the creative form. I therefore still think that impartial judging would be far less likely, even with subconscious bias and the best of intentions.
- Okay. I didn't know that. I guess I'll just have to keep hoping that one day something like this will eventually happen on Subeta.
I still think this would be a good thing to do with other users in the forums, though - do you have any friends who you think would be interested? If there aren't any current contests going, maybe you could put one together :)
you know, an idea just occurred to me. to have an art contest in a summer month or so, when there is no other event going on. it would have more sections,and one player can only enter one section. everyone can vote, most votes=winner. the prizes to be a profile trophy. no achievements. the contest to happen every year, much like the other events. BUT with set date. [ie it starts Aug 1st , ends Aug 27th] and this as far as i could think of.
this could work on a weekly basis too. have 2-3 days to enter, 4-3 days to vote, and the last one to count votes/announce the winner. the winner of one contest cant enter again. ever. at least no in the same section. [based on user ID number]
Subeta is too clique-y for these kind of contests in my opinion (which sucks because I do love to write and would enter in the contest). It would become a popularity contest. Whoever has the most friends regardless of the skill of the writing or the art, they'd win because they'd get voted for the most. It's the same problem with HA contests.
- Yeah, you're right. But it wouldn't be a popularity contest if there was a staff member that judged the contest. But that'd never work anyway, from what other people have said, and I can understand why now as well.
Unlike Neopets, the staff on subeta is much more connected to the userbase and they DO have friends and some of them ARE a part of the cliques. Because they're almost like regular users they can't be as unbiased as they'd need to be for something like this.