Voters' Incessant Ramble

[RyanH]

Thrashling wrote:

I think the module pitch I would make is for a form that forces proper formatting and sanity checks general guidelines.

Does your price exceed 300k? Popup saying you item is too expensive.
Do your cost and price follow the rules?
It would allow you enter all this information, or use drop down menus when possible, and then it would spit out a properly formatted and bbcoded entry.

Hell i might just make it a project to brush on my webdesign and coding skills.

Part of the point of this contest though is to find new content creators that can create material following some simple guidelines. Seems like they would want to find the people that required the least hand holding.

[Perish Song]

iPod vs Christmas. I think it's a deep symbolic analogy of the commercialism of-

Wow. I'm needing sleep soon.

[Pamela Elizabeth]

Monocle: 6

[bugleyman]

TwoDee wrote:

I'm noticing a great preponderance of seed and seed-themed items.

Me too, but don't worry: They grow on you.

[Scorba]

been voting most of the day ..

I am truly surprised at the number of basic formatting errors. Is it safe to assume that if you made a submission it made it into the general voting pool?

I have seen ...whew... a couple hundred items and at this moment, I found one that I loved and many that were good, but many are formatted so badly I could not even give it a chance.

[Perish Song]

"This item has three different forms that..."

Not necessarily an auto-kill, but the theme better be tight.

[Andrew Shumate]

Spell in a can vs. 2 spells in a can. I guess 2 spells in a can wins?

[Azouth]

Argyle?

[Perish Song]

bugleyman wrote:

TwoDee wrote:

I'm noticing a great preponderance of seed and seed-themed items.

Me too, but don't worry: They grow on you.

I seed what you did there. You plant that out, didn't you?

[Thrashling]

GM, im bored and want to play something, but just for today.

[Perish Song]

Azouth wrote:

Argyle?

Don't you have any Christmas music?

[Iammars]

God, this thread is killing me. I'm almost certain there's been some posts about my item. I don't see how I'm going to make it 2 weeks like this.

In other news, I seem to be in a relatively good patch of items right now. Here's hoping that I didn't just jinx it.

[Pamela Elizabeth]

Finally got an umbrella.

[Pamela Elizabeth]

It's faint, not feint.

[Scorba]

at least I have Game Night on Saturday. It will be a break from voting ...

think I may have to kill a PC or 2 to cleanse my palate

[Perish Song]

Surprised I haven't seen the honor item again.

[Thrashling]

RyanH wrote:

Thrashling wrote:

I think the module pitch I would make is for a form that forces proper formatting and sanity checks general guidelines.

Does your price exceed 300k? Popup saying you item is too expensive.
Do your cost and price follow the rules?
It would allow you enter all this information, or use drop down menus when possible, and then it would spit out a properly formatted and bbcoded entry.

Hell i might just make it a project to brush on my webdesign and coding skills.

Part of the point of this contest though is to find new content creators that can create material following some simple guidelines. Seems like they would want to find the people that required the least hand holding.

Then lets start with a few days of voting on just whether or not an item meets the guidelines well enough to be compared to other items. Or at the very least to a culling of items after a sufficient number of votes are cast to have a statistically sound understand of the worst X% of items in circulation, because it wastes less time to not have to vote on obvious non-winners.

I imagine doing several smaller cullings at critical vote number totals would expedite the process of finding the best submissions and make the process more enjoyable. I think people would like to see well done, well thought out, and reasonable items to vote on over days of sorting through rubbish.

But, point taken on part of the contest to be identify people who have the ability to conform to a format. It is, however, something that can be taught to innovative thinkers.

[Perish Song]

Feels like now I'm seeing all the items that give some sort of bonus to weapons. Like flaming and whatnot.

[Iammars]

I'm pretty sure the last time I saw this many knots was when I taught Pioneering Merit Badge.

[Dave Herman]

Auto-mapper vs rogue replacer. Gah.

[Scorba]

what are voting title numbers?

I am currently a Star Voter ... probably 100 votes

does anyone know?

[Azouth]

Scorba wrote:

what are voting title numbers?

I am currently a Star Voter ... probably 100 votes

does anyone know?

100, 500, 1000, or 5000 times with custom message board titles (Star Voter, Dedicated Voter, Marathon Voter, Champion Voter)

[Pamela Elizabeth]

I actually really like this squirrel themed item. Probably because of the mental image.

[Andrew Shumate]

Iammars wrote:

I'm pretty sure the last time I saw this many knots was when I taught Pioneering Merit Badge.

Conversely, I haven't seen this many direction-seeking items since I taught Orienteering.

[Perish Song]

Scorba wrote:

what are voting title numbers?

I am currently a Star Voter ... probably 100 votes

does anyone know?

Detailed here in the second post.

[Scorba]

champion ... seems a bit gratuitous

I will make it to Dedicated

[Pamela Elizabeth]

No save vs. no save.

[Pamela Elizabeth]

"Market Price"

[Andrew Shumate]

Pamela Elizabeth wrote:

"Market Price"

That just applies to the lobster used as a material component.

[Iammars]

Netopalis wrote:

Iammars wrote:

I'm pretty sure the last time I saw this many knots was when I taught Pioneering Merit Badge.

Conversely, I haven't seen this many direction-seeking items since I taught Orienteering.

Heh, I've also seen a bunch of Cooking items. Now all we need to do is find some Camping and Wilderness Survival items and we have our own magical Scoutcraft!

[Cthulhudrew]

Couldn't sleep. RPG Superstar keeps calling to me.

And why does this item remind me of Wile E. Coyote?

[Matt Goodall]

Why do people hate the semicolon so much?

[Andrew Shumate]

Iammars wrote:

Netopalis wrote:

Iammars wrote:

I'm pretty sure the last time I saw this many knots was when I taught Pioneering Merit Badge.

Conversely, I haven't seen this many direction-seeking items since I taught Orienteering.

Heh, I've also seen a bunch of Cooking items. Now all we need to do is find some Camping and Wilderness Survival items and we have our own magical Scoutcraft!

Already saw both of those. Also have seen first aid items, woodworking items...these items really trivialize scout camp. (Especially the insta-bridge items. Do you know how long I spent on that log bridge? Too long!)

[Azouth]

Netopalis wrote:

Iammars wrote:

Netopalis wrote:

Iammars wrote:

I'm pretty sure the last time I saw this many knots was when I taught Pioneering Merit Badge.

Conversely, I haven't seen this many direction-seeking items since I taught Orienteering.

Heh, I've also seen a bunch of Cooking items. Now all we need to do is find some Camping and Wilderness Survival items and we have our own magical Scoutcraft!

Already saw both of those. Also have seen first aid items, woodworking items...these items really trivialize scout camp. (Especially the insta-bridge items. Do you know how long I spent on that log bridge? Too long!)

Don't forget the fire starting one.

[Azouth]

3rd time I saw my item. Every time I see it I am like, "Oh, hello there."

[SunaKai]

Saw a SIAK again. But the paired item sucks. So I voted for the SIAK for the 4th time.

[cwslyclgh]

Still haven't seen my item... but then last year I think I was approaching a 500 votes before I first saw it.

[cwslyclgh]

canned spells are not always DOA... if they are pulled off with enough panache they have made the top 32 before.

[Kaartus]

AH ZZ gp price, my old friend. And on an item I otherwise liked too.

[Allana Sliwinski]

Kaartus wrote:

AH ZZ gp price, my old friend. And on an item I otherwise liked too.

It's a steal at ZZgp.

[Kaartus]

Oh man I just saw a great item, but the price was 9,000gp and the cost to make was also 9,000gp... :(

[Andrew Black]

TwoDee wrote:

Damn it, there was a super-cool hat that had a core mechanic that was totally superstar, but then had a bunch of little superfluous unnecessary extra bits. I still voted for it, but it pained me how much I loved ALMOST everything about it, like if I was eating a delicious key lime pie but instead of a dollop of whipped cream in the center, it had a big lump of nacho cheez.

This is exactly who we should be voting up...a perfect item is a perfect item....but someone who has made something you love and shows you some potential that is who we want to see move to the next rounds. If you can say...a good developer would have made sure the Cheez was whipped cream...then the designer just might have what it takes to create awesome pies.

[Iammars]

Ah, yes, return of the hats. Sorry, I'm not a Team Fortress 2 player.
Maybe if I make a martial character for once, the system will stop showing me wizard hats.

[Perish Song]

cwslyclgh wrote:

Still haven't seen my item... but then last year I think I was approaching a 500 votes before I first saw it.

I've yet to see mine, and I think I'm pretty well over 600. Starting to wonder if I messed something up and it got culled, but I've seen a few posts that may have been my item, so I'm not sure.

[SunaKai]

Finally made myself Star Voter.

And the 100th pair has my item in it.

How lucky me!

[Garrett Guillotte]

Saw mine around vote 120.

I've seen six different items all with [ / b], spaced out exactly like that, in the item title, and the item name omitted from the item body. Bizarre mostly for how consistent the error is. Did someone distribute a bad template?

[Perish Song]

Garrett Guillotte wrote:

Saw mine around vote 120.

I've seen six different items all with [ / b], spaced out exactly like that, in the item title, and the item name omitted from the item body. Bizarre mostly for how consistent the error is. Did someone distribute a bad template?

I'm pretty sure that putting the tags in the item title makes them look stretched out like that.

[Lightminder]

There seems to be air traffic control concerns inter dimensionally, so many dimension door applications, I keep imagining an alternate dimension experiencing a Big Bang of matter expansion hoarder style from sixteen other dimensions of folks storing stuff, just rent a pan dimensional c can folks, an inter dimensional intermodal cube maybe!

[Kaartus]

A lot of ZZ gp price this year...

[Lightminder]

That's just code for 999,999.99 the top possible price before it goes artifact. ZZ = top.