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[–] DorothyMantooth 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

REPOST: IDEA FOR "CONTEST," flair, etc.:

(I posted this last week, but so late that almost nobody saw it. So I'm re-posting it now, and hopefully you guys will have some thoughts/input. Thank you to those who did see it and respond last week, though!) So this was my idea--it might be a tad late, so I might need to re-post it Sunday night (I'm sorry, this turned into a very busy week for me):

First, I was thinking it would be fun to just have a discussion thread of The Worst Fat You've Ever Known. Just as a conversation, not necessarily a voting thing (unless others want to do that).

The competition comes in with a regular "Worst Fat of the Month" type conversation. Rather than have this be in one long thread or here in this sticky, we could just have them as normal submissions, but with "Worst Fat" in brackets in the title. So, frex, you find a Tumblr fat moaning about how any man who won't fuck her is a rapist. You would submit that image or link or whatever like normal, and the title would be: "Tumblr Deathfat Calls Men Rapists for not Fucking Her [Worst Fat]." And the discussion would go on like normal (and we would discourage comments like, "Wow, this one gets my vote!" and such, because the goal here is to encourage activity and participation, not to focus on Winning A Contest or even on the contest itself).

Then, at the end of each month--say on a specific date each month so we don't need to count weeks and such, like maybe the 25th of each month (any entries after that point go into the next month's pool), one thread is posted, or a poll is posted in here (We could also do the first of every month, looking at the previous month's entries). The post would have links to all of the submissions tagged "[Worst Fat]." And people vote on it. The winning entry gets maybe custom flair that rotates to each month's winner (so you only get the custom flair for a month)?

At the end of the year we could do a "Worst Fat of the Year" vote, with links to all the monthly winners.

It could also be expanded into a fat meme-type contest. Obviously if the winner is/contains an image, that could go in the sidebar. But we also have some talented artists here, I know; perhaps someone would be willing to do or find some kind of image that represents the Worst Fat of that month? That might be too difficult to do, and Cars might want to keep those separate; I'm just throwing ideas out there.

Anyway. Like I said, the idea is to increase content and submissions and give us a way to "reward" those who so submit/start threads.

I also keep thinking about the great image of Lord Beetus someone drew for me here very soon after I joined--LB on a Scootypuff with a bag full of feet hanging off the side--and I was thinking that could be an image contest that would be fun: Draw Lord Beetus. And those images could rotate or act as placeholders in the sidebar. Maybe a couple of them could be turned into a new header? They wouldn't have to be hand sketches, they could be made with Photoshop or whatever, too. Obviously the side image is really Cars's thing, but I think it would be fun to have a store of images to put up: various ugly fats, depictions of Worst Fats, Lord Beetus, maybe cartoons of typical fat behavior/moments...that sort of thing. Or those could all be gathered together here each month for voting. I know we don't want too many stickies, and I agree, but I think having one for one or two days at the beginning/end of each month, that is then un-stickied when voting ends, wouldn't be too bad? Or the poll could just go here in the Weekly OT.

Again, the goal here is to increase participation and bring in more submissions, not just to win contests. That's why I think entries for a "Worst Fat" contest should be regular submissions with just a tag that indicates they'd like to be considered for Worst Fat, rather than a single thread. That way they become just part of the normal conversation here, and people are encouraged to treat them like any other submissions: comment as you would normally, upvoat as you would normally because the number of upvoats doesn't decide who wins. And again, we would discourage comments that just say things like, "This is the winner!" or "Definitely voting for this one." Just respond to the submission like normal; you'll get your chance to vote when it's time to vote.

If anyone has any other thoughts about it, please feel free! I came up with the idea but I am in no way possessive or proprietary about it, so I welcome feedback and ideas. I just want to help increase participation here and have something fun for us; I don't care about the purity of my vision or whatever. So if there's something you think would make it better, by all means speak up!

I also wonder if it might be worth letting more people know we're here, like in comments on YouTube etc. There are often a number of shitpeople there; are we worried about what might happen if we comment there encouraging them to join us here, or is it just not something we do? I can see both sides, so I'm not necessarily advocating doing that, I'm just thinking about increasing our membership. I've invited a few people I'd seen shitlording on YT/Fattit, but I'm hesitant to post an open invite due to trolls and/or fear of getting us (or me) in trouble for it. Does anyone have any thoughts on increasing membership numbers?

Although, being more active might increase it automatically, right?

Anyway, that's my idea. Please say if you love it or hate it or have any other thoughts.

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[–] mmmmdonuts 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Advertising seems like an interesting idea, but I can see some pros and cons of it. Not sure how we would go about doing that tho...

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[–] Bigtop 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I like the worst fat idea. Maybe it’s too complicated but I would suggest breaking it down into worst fats we know personally and worst famous fat.

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[–] DorothyMantooth 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I actually had a similar thought! Worst Fat We Know and Worst Fat in Media (which would encompass all media stories we post, not just Mess or that Steve asshole every month).

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[–] Skinny_Barbie ago 

Love it!