Friday Q&A

Questionable Perspiration

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome to an all new edition of the Friday Q&A. Each week, I take a look at issues facing Fark's Photoshop community. You'll have to forgive my eagerness, but I'm just so excited to have made a difference. What's that? You didn't notice all the great new themes in the contest queue? I suppose you'll say it's just a coincidence that I made a whiny blog post concerning the lack of themes, and a few days (or possibly weeks) later we're awash in them. There can be no other explanation. Please refrain from assailing my unassailable logic.

Q: Didn't other people submit those themes?

A: First of all, that's a good question. Secondly, shut the hell up! Those people were obviously either inspired by me or inspired by people who were inspired by me. Possibly inspired by people who were inspired by people who were inspired by me. I'm just that inspirational. At any rate, the result is the same: Fark's queue is imbued with the proper mixture of themes and "Photoshop this O" contests. All that's left is for someone to step forward and claim a kind of vague personal glory from having stirred the change. Allow me to nominate myself.

Q: Why has it been such a problem to keep themes in the queue?

A: There's a lot of moving parts in the system that we rely on to get contests approved. First, someone has to actually submit a theme. It has to be good, and hopefully not something we've done a bunch of times before. Upon submission, an Admin has to review and approve the contest. If he's not paying close attention, or having a bad day, or just doesn't like your phrasing, it's a no go. Many, many great ideas have been lost due to lack of perseverance on the part of those submitting them. The standard course of action for contest submitters should be "try, try again."

Q: What if the problem arises again?

A: It won't, because my inspirational words of excellence completely overstep the common boundaries of what you think will happen, and what you know will happen, and also what has happened probably 10 dozen times before in recent memory. Problem's solved, please excuse me whilst I knock the dust away from my hands in a casual fashion to signify a job well done.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks again for stopping by. Looks like I've solved our community's problems once and for all, hopefully for at least a couple of days. I just want to say to myself, good job, I knew I could do it.

Stay tuned for more self aggrandizement from the Doctor!