Contest Brainstorm: What's in a good contest?

Well, we want to bring you some nice contests and prizes. That much is not secret but also would love to have those contests to and prizes to be something you care about. Time after time I've found people not interested in the contest and people interested in the contest but finding it difficult to participate.

As we're a living community and our situation and active members will be changing, so this will remain here for everybody to freely express what they would like to see happening here. The Staff then will be able to take all your input in account for some juicy, fun contests. :D

• So... what moves you to enter a contest?
• What kind of contests would you like to see around?
• Are there any kind of contests or practices that you dislike?
• Do you like recurrent contests (those that repeats every month or year)?

If you have a great contest idea you rather not to share in public feel free to shoot me a Direct Message.
Thank you!

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Low-effort creative work collaborations could be fun. [...] the kinds of things that adults can fit into their busy lives.
I'm not very interested, personally, in the idea of a contest. Contests have winners and losers. [...] I'd be more interested in seeing a pdf with all the contributions, than I would in seeing a single entry raised above the others for no real reason.

I definitely vouch for the idea of having collaborations, though I don't see why to have one over the other. I think collaborations should be more ongoing and contests be less often but special. While I agree some people get demotivated by winners-loser, other people thrive with the idea of being the number one. The idea then would be to offer something nice that incentivizes people to give it a go.

Contests and collabs I think both should be something easy enough so people don't feel like discouraged just by thinking how complex it is to participate. Contests can be a good way to attract more visitors, although I am not particularly fond of "post-a-ton" contests or lottery-drawn.

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I would add, to my previous comment, that if there's a "Winner," that means someone has to pick the winner.

Whoever picks the winner can't really pick themselves. If they do, it looks like / makes them feel like they're being unfair to the others.

Which means that whoever ends up being pegged as the Judge will be less motivated to contribute to the contest. Which is bad, because in a small community like this, we want as many people as possible to be motivated to participate in any group projects.

If the winner is selected by everybody's vote instead of staff or one individual it could still motivate everybody to enter. Although being so few at the time it could mean that many would withhold voting before giving it to another contendant which might make things difficult to choose the winner or winners in our current state.

Anyway, although I want to launch some sort of contest with a proper prize I can mail to the winner, I want the contest to be something simple, fun and zelda related. For example, designing an outfit for Link of the newest portable Zelda game announced.

Do you guys think it would be better to call the section "Activities" so it 8s more invoting?
I also need to start coming up with something for Halloween and or Christmas.

Open to suggestions.

There's always this year.
Missed Halloween. Xmas tested the waters with name change but not enough people.
Hopefully, this year will have the activity for it.

Next holidays are Valentines and easter. Maybe @LinkSkywalker with his table top roleplay experience can help us come up with something.

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If I go to the Discord chat, am I going to see a conversation about how funny it would be to tag me repeatedly in a thread? =P

If I say yes, will you go to the discord chat? :XD:

And I'll have you know we take tagging very seriously so I hope you attended each and every thread we so desperately required your input.

So... how many alerts were you greeted with?

I like the shipping idea.

I think I tagged you more than once in some threads so hopefully it wasn't that much of a load. I appreciate you took the time to check out all these important matter we wanted you to check out.