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Jeffrey (Login McJeffrey)
Posted Jun 4, 2009 5:19 PM
I've been thinking, for a quite a long while, that a new community is in order for the BAO contest. Personally, at the very least I've been hoping for a new message board because I'm not crazy about the Network54... community, or whatever you want to call it. There are better message board hosting sites that are much more customizable and efficient. In a perfect world, I'd love to have an actual website dedicated to the baits complete with a history page of all nominees & winners and whatnot (which I personally feel would attract more people to the contest alone), or a wiki page, or something. But, all of that can be done just as easily on any message board hosting site if people are actually willing to maintain it (I know I would be).
It's nothing against Johnny, since I do appreciate the effort he's put into the contest since the very beginning. But, in my personal opinion, he needs a lot of help if he wants to reinvigorate the contest because the problem right now is that it's slow and boring, even during months where we're actually having baits published. I know that I have a lot of time on my hands, and I'm sure a lot of people are willing to lend time to help the contest evolve from its current state to something bigger, something grander. I think ultimately the first step is to establish a new "home base", though, perhaps demoting ourselves to an affiliate of or completely "disenfranchising" ourselves from Awards Circuit. I know Johnny once said that he would be fine with that so long as we changed the name of the contest or whatever, and I know personally that I don't care about slightly changing the name if it means making the contest fun again. If that's the only request he truly has. |
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