sentrywiz said:
If you lose a family member, the last thing you will care about is some random contest on a random forum made by and for random people that somehow co-exist in that random place. You're using hard terms like death, stress, real-life as a crutch to support your victim theory. And I just don't buy it. There are no excuses for not doing something other than that you don't have enough motivation. If you want something so badly, trust me you will find a way to get or replace it.
Thanks for the assumption. : /
I'm not saying all people are like that; I'm not saying all situations would warrant that. I'm not saying all the people who fail the meet the deadline have that as a (legitimate) excuse.
I'm merely saying that
some people may miss deadlines for reasons
outside of laziness, procrastination, or lack of motivation; reasons that might even be serious (as aforementioned).
You sound incredulous; believe me, there are plenty of people for whom the Internet (and, by extension, plausibly this site) are a real source of comfort/self-esteem/empowerment (and not in the "e-peen" kinda way). These people, despite personal tragedy, still have a vested interest in, say, a Contest they had entered; they have invested a bit of themselves in it & wish to see it to completion. ~ Others I know of have excessively restrictive schedules; schedules where they may have 1 or 2 days in a given week(s) to actually do some modding. And if that/those day(s) are taken up with a car accident, or a strange malady, or an unexpected death in the family... That is very real.
Once again, there's no "me using this as a crutch", nor do I have some sort of "victim theory" which you claim. I have never said that
I have had to deal with any of the above (personal tragedy, excessively stringent schedules, etc); instead, I have made it clear time & again that I
do, honestly, suffer from procrastination and lack of motivation. I know it. It's a big problem. It constrains me from a
lot of productivity & happiness. And I claim full responsibility for it.
So there's no "trying to cover my tracks" here. But there
are reasons (not 'excuses') for not getting things accomplished, and all I'm espousing is a bit more consideration for 'mercy' rather than 'justice' (again, not for me necessarily; just in general).
sentrywiz said:
I'm not sure I see how this benefits the Host
(unless the "final day" falls on a bad day for you... but in that case, just do it the next day, or the day after. No one is going to get mad). Whether you collect all the entries on the actual, published "Final Day", or a day before, or five days before or a week before... It's all the same, except there will be less entries. I guess if
that's what you're going for, then there's not much I can say. Usually people (entrants, the host, mods, other users, etc) like to see
more entries, rather than arbitrarily less.
sentrywiz said:
But maybe like I said I'm taking this way too seriously and I need to lighten up about it. Still I took responsibility for this contest when nobody wanted to so now I get to press the buttons (for now). I don't claim to be a great host nor do I try to. But for the sake of what this contest is, to enact some semblance of fairness, anonymity and justification I will stick to my guns until IC #2 is done and rep is given accordingly. After that, we can discuss anything about the rules and I won't have a problem to uphold them in the next contest, given that I host it again.
I can respect someone picking up where someone else left off, and I can respect trying to stick to the established rules as they were put down.
sentrywiz said:
For now though, no. I cannot accept your final work let alone your WIP that looks badly rushed.
I understand your logic though and I commend you trying to squeeze in in the last second.
... Thanks. I don't know if you were comparing me to some of the
other entries, but aside from missing some information my WIP wasn't rushed very much at all. :<
sentrywiz said:
Sorry but you had all the time in the world and just chose to do it in the deadline time.
That doesn't stick well with my rules. For now its my contest and I make the rules.
You can criticize my rules or me all you want. I don't accept new participants and new WIP's, not now or 5 days ago when I said I didn't. Like I said above, after this contest ends we can talk about changing the rules with the community. If all agree, I'm fine. For now, its like this.
This is true; I intentionally put it off till I had the looming deadline to motivate me. Like I said, bad choice.
However, while I'm not here to criticize you, I
am going to point out inconsistency & try to make these Contests better and better. Earlier you state that you want to "stick to [your] guns" and run the Contest as it was left behind... And yet here you are implementing new rules, rules that really only benefit you (and tangentially at best), rules that hurt those trying to enter.
That's what I'm trying to get at. I don't care about my entry not making it in; it would've been nice to see what people think & I relished the challenge of doing so 'last minute', but it's a Hero design that I intend to use
elsewhere (*fingers crossed for next Hero Contest*), so whatever. What I care about is understanding why you thought this was ever a good idea; and to make sure it doesn't happen in the future.
Respectfully,
Kyrbi0
