Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-5075791-20130930211124/@comment-20015702-20131006183216

Bullet Francisco wrote:

Toxice wrote:

SilverPlays97 wrote: Bullet Francisco wrote: Someone please explain to me how this is competitive. We can reduce competition fairly easily by disallowing previous winners on the poll (like we do with the Featured User poll), we can add more awards if necessary, etc. There are plenty of awards to be had, and it's not even that big of a deal. It just encourages you to work harder so that you'll earn some recognition for your work. You aren't competing for a cash prize, you aren't competing for your life, so don't complain about it. If you are envious of the winners, that's your problem because you should know that it's a meaningless award. We want to celebrate the work of the users here on the Sonic News Network and encourage more work to be done. We are not trying to provoke competition. Geez. Someone please respond to this. Bullet makes a good point; and IMO, i think this argument over 'this is competitive' is invalid. The point is strong and I agree. If you want some examples then...I've seen Megaphantaze begging on the chat for being voted "New user of the month" which dosen't seem right, and I've seen Ultrasonic9000 cry over him not winning. That's all. Not too "competitive" ^^. First of all, Megaphantaze was just excited about being nominated. Second, Ultrasonic was not "crying". Third, two minor examples out of how many? Yeah, I was just trying to give some but not importany examples just to clear some points. Overall, the competitive nature of the awards don't affect anyone and causes no harm. That's my conclusion.