Questionable Perception
Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome to another edition of the Friday Q&A. Each week, I take a look at the most pressing issues faced by Fark's Photoshop community. Then, oftentimes, I disregard that crap and talk about something else. Let's face it, there isn't a lot of new ground to cover here. Move a few pixels around, the Beer Looter is bad, mix with nostalgia and you have the recipe for most Fark-related Photoshop community outrage blogs.
Q: What are you currently outraged about?
A: The current source of my consternation is the same one I've been carping about for several months now. At the beginning of the year, the voting system was changed to a namby pamby dual category setup, apparently in an attempt to appease those forces who have long complained about the lack of quality at Fark.
Q: How does having two categories improve quality?
A: I think we can all agree that it hasn't. All it's really done has make things more difficult for the various Fark satellites that track averages and entries. Which in turn devalues the community. Therefore, it is my conclusion that this hair-brained dual voting system has done nothing but make our situation worse.
Q: What is the real reason that dual voting was added?
A: The same reason that it will remain: laziness. Drew and company wanted to keep pace with Reddit by adding comment voting to all the threads. "Smartest" and "funniest" were the categories they wanted to use, since they apparently haven't actually visited any Fark comment threads in the last decade. But rather than go to any effort to keep Photoshop as it was, they threw in categories there, too. The fact that Photoshop 2.0 wasn't given any kind of presentation by Fark staff when it premiered is a pretty big tell that they knew it would be unpopular.
That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks again for stopping by. When the hated new voting system premiered, there were calls to "wait and see" if any positive consequences would result. Kind of like when your house is on fire, and you wait to call 911. Just in case the flames will sweep into the kitchen and cook your dinner. At this point, I'm thinking we should just order pizza.
Stay tuned for more culinary flexibility from the Doctor!
2 comments:
I see you frequent Fark as often as I do. You are harping on the 2-vote system here on May 18th, but Fark restored the 1-vote system on 4/30. Don't feel bad, no one told me either. I dropped into the forum a week ago to catch up; last visited 775 posts ago. I read about it there. While there were several comments wondering when the Leaderboard would be restored, no one actually bothered to contact me to let me know of the switch back.
So when some one tells me i'll take a look; as HoboSong apparently fell off the Earth. With so little hubbub, I guess the Leaderboard isn't as important as it once was.
Old friend, I'm thinking both you and I are relics. :(
About fucking time. I honestly didn't expect them to restore it. This is good, i-dig. Very good. Whomever finally persuaded them to change it back has my gratitude. Or maybe the numbers did the talking for us, like you said I haven't even looked at Fark in a couple weeks. I've just been so disgusted by this whole ordeal. Whomever had the bright idea to institute the dual voting should be kept away from the Internet at all costs.
As for the leaderboard, the fact that it broke is pretty much what drove me to quit Fark, I mean there isn't any really purpose in gloating over wins for 5 seconds in a contest and then never seeing the image again.
I go over my leaderboard profile and it's like a walk down memory lane. Even now I still check it from time to time, hoping that one day the past few months will magically appear. Don't get discouaged if everyone doesn't snap to attention right away. The stupid dual voting crap drove off god knows how many, and disenfranchised almost everyone else. There is going to be a lot of rebuilding ahead of us. Just to get us back to where we were in Dec of 2011. Don't give up now.
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