Twenty Four / Texts
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I have great respect for my old crazy dead grandfather, but I have found that searching through his old papers is a little like archeology and some amazing stuff lies hidden back there in the mists of time. But there are some absolute gems back there to be uncovered. As well as some that are full of awesome and seem to have been overlooked.
But there are still tasks that lacked that certain amount of awesome.
Even so, just looking at tasks that were voted on by Senators didn't uncover the true history of our collective pasts, and more investigation is certainly in order.
Yes, Lizard Boy, exactly, and to further clarify, the reason I took Burn Unit's votes out of the equation (and it has nothing to do with starting at the bottom and working up and being really tired after days and days of reading praxis voted on by other Senators and the thought of going through 881 more made my brain hurt) was because most of the completions I didn't agree with were either from Impossible Exchange (where I'm sorry to say, but a lot of shoddy work was put up, I mean shoddy work is being put up today *achem* but the shoddy work being put up back then was a product I imagine of the game being so new and people not knowing how to really get awesome yet) or were player pictures. And then, to further vary my "would have voted for" to not just vote for everything I thought was cool, I generally only voted for my favorite of a certain task and not others in that same category. Like I voted for this, but not this, because in retrospect one so far exceeded the other, when the latter first hit the praxis, I'm sure I would have voted for it, but now, knowing what the task could be, all of the others seem so elementary. But of course there are exceptions to this rule as I gave voting props to both doorhenge and the door-mobile as both demonstrated a shocking amount of awesome. What I didn't do is weigh any particular vote. I wanted to. I wanted to weigh any vote for the truly epic, but couldn't decide how much one vote for doorhenge would count relative to a player's picture. So rather than try to work out some weird inconsistent algorithm, I decided to just count them straight up. I could have posted a list of all of the tasks each Senator voted for and my approval of each one, but decided that nobody would really read that. I got bored with reading my own analysis above, I don't think I could have made it through to the end of a calculation that long.
But back to Burn Unit. That statement wasn't meant as a dig. His votes mean a lot. I see he votes for overlooked tasks, to give them attention, he votes a lot for first tasks from players to help make them feel welcome and more a part of the game and he has no problem giving out votes like hugs to anybody he feels deserves it (these are obviously just my opinions based on seeing his votes cast and tasks completed, I may be way off base), Burn Unit is helping spread love over this community and that is very valuable. Maybe more valuable than the rest. But for the purposes of seeing which Senator aligned closest to my idea of awesome tasking, I had to take him out of the equation (and I kept Eleanorest in because she fell right smack dab in the middle of the remaining seven, which I found pretty funny, I obviously know that her sample size isn't large enough to really form a quantifiable opinion, but it's funny, just like she is, so it stays).
I have now updated my completion (hopefully to most people's satisfaction) and have voted on some tasks that stand out right off the bat. I didn't vote while doing this task because I was focused on doing the task. I had to sift through an d read a lot and to have added votes during that time would have been disastrous to this completion, and now I feel a huge responsibility in how I cast my votes, so I'm gonna take some time with them.