i [heart] the new thread idea. furthermore, i remember back in the day, nearly three years ago, when i first came to the site. immediately, i had an idea for what i still think would be a kinda cool competition.
now--and here's the cool part-- rather than post it in the competitions forum, i posted in GD (there weren't really any other forums) a message asking the regs if they thought it sounded like a good idea. nothing ever came of it, but at least i didn't piss everyone off by clogging up the competition forum (which only had two kinds of comps in it).
sorry if that story was boring, but i think my point is that even regs should test the waters of public opinions before starting competitions willy-nilly. i don't think WW, FTC and BTC are really hurting anything per se--after all, CC entries haven't really gone down in number--but they are kinda gimmicky and don't, in my mind, feel as "important" as CCs and Cups, mostly for reasons already numbered upthread. i guess that's why the second forum idea appeals to me.
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