Friday Q&A

Questionable Consternation

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome to another edition of the Friday Q&A. This weekly feature serves as a spotlight of sorts for my insane rantings, some of which are tangentially related to Fark's Photoshop community. Thanks for joining me once again. As National Vote Whore Month draws to a close, I'd like to take some time in today's post to reflect upon the damage done.

Q: What kind of damage did NVWM cause?

A: The kind of vast, widespread, catastrophic damage that can only be detected by someone who has intimate knowledge of the inner-workings of our community, and is also kind of a dick. Once again, I'm the right guy for the job! By default perhaps, but it's an impressive feat nonetheless. Maybe you're still confused about what exactly a vote whore is. Well, the term is defined as pretty much anyone who ever entered a Fark contest.

Q: Am I a vote whore?

A: You want the votes, don't you? You don't enable voting by accident, and neither did any of the Golden Age Photoshoppers whom everyone salivates over in wistful contemplation of bygone days. These are contests, and they have winners. But the only real losers are people who let their inexplicable need to control others poison what can be an otherwise enjoyable hobby. If you don't like the crap, rise above it. Don't wallow around in the muck and complain about how much it stinks.

Q: How can anyone hope defeat a cliche?

A: I think the first step is to not suck at Photoshop. This is probably a big leap for some of you. When you think about it, though, it kind of makes sense. You'll never be able to stop every single person from posting a crappy entry. Even if you ran off a few idiots, more would soon arrive to fill the vacuum. What you can do is focus on your own work. If everyone did that, we'd be pretty well off. Of course, this is harder than just bitching about things.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks again for stopping by. I'd like to offer TheSniperZERO my sincerest apologies for not taunting him more in this post. It's just that he's such a tedious person to focus on, I thought I'd break up the monotony a bit. I'll get back to mocking him in earnest next week, by which time I'm sure he will have left at least a dozen spam comments in a desperate plea for attention.

Stay tuned for more accurate predictions from the Doctor!