Friday Q&A

Questionable Devaluation

Greetings, crickets an trolls. Welcome to another edition of the Friday Q%A. Each week, I take a look at issues facing Fark's Photoshop community. As a licensed pretend medical professional, I feel it's my duty to share my vast insight on the subject of image manipulation. Photoshopping is one of the first skills they teach you in pretend med school. It's useful for chopping "before and after" type photos to make it look like your patients have lost weight, improved their posture or still have all their various extremities.

Q: Has the voting crisis at Fark resolved itself?

A: I suppose it depends on how you look at it. If you mean in the sense that people's concerns were addressed and proper adjustments were made to the system, no, that does not appear to be the case. If you were hoping for everyone to get ignored and eventually stop complaining because it's just a waste of time, then I have good news.

Q: Are you surprised with how quickly this feat was accomplished?

A: Fark Photoshoppers have had ample opportunity to "get over it" in the past, as the kids say. As always, practice makes perfect, whether it be in Photoshop or reacting to the capricious will of the community overlords. I find even my own level of interest in this subject is in decline. I may only complain about it for another four or five years.

Q: Why is changing the structure of the contests such a big deal?

A: Because I'm on the Internet, and I have a blog. I admit that my initial reaction to the idea of split voting, when I learned of it so many years ago, was almost entirely positive. But the more I thought about it, the more I saw it as pandering to the whiny set that always complains about losing to cliches. And in my mind, best is funniest, and funniest is best. So making a distinction is asinine in my perspective. It dilutes what little personal enjoyment could have been derived from winning, and generally makes things more confusing to follow.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks again for stopping by. I hope you've already given up hope of changing Drew's mind about how ridiculous it is to have two winners per contest. As previously stated, I'm already horribly bored by the whole series of events. But given that the mantra used to calm everyone earlier this year seemed to be "let's see how this plays out" I actually wanted to chronicle any unforeseen benefits. I'll certainly let you know if that ever happens.

Stay tuned for more heavy sarcasm from the Doctor!