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(no subject) (re: Hat That Makes Babe Happy)
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SSI - you have struck a great balance between the crowdsourcing part (like coming up with task ideas) and maintaining a vision and character through central control. I think your creative input and content control has been important---thanks!
I would hope that people would retain a portion in a highly selective manner for the greater good. Like, if you were collecting get well cards from strangers to pass along to sick people in the hospital, it would make a lot of sense to retain any cards that had rude messages. Or if you collected canned goods, and someone donated home canned items of dubious edibility, you might not want to be handing them out.
I think lots of people enjoy the positive feedback they got from seeing votes on their praxis. But, I also think that a comment is even cooler. Since comments are still unlimited, I'd like to encourage everyone to give out lots of comments. From the mundane "I liked it" to the specific "that reminds me of the time I won an argument with a polar bear" to the heartfelt "thank you for doing this," a comment is more powerful than a vote. Plus, I think people remember your comments longer than they remember the fact that you voted for them.
It just takes a few more seconds to come up with something to say about a praxis, rather than pressing the vote button.
This was interesting...the question of how seriously you have to take a game in order to get anything out of it, and yet by getting emotionally invested, you run a risk. People are always saying "don't take it too seriously" as a sort of cautionary phrase or pseudo-consolation...but I think caring is part of art and play.
Well...welcome to SFZero, where we don't need any particular reason to invest vast amounts of time, except that it might be cool :)
Perhaps if I can obtain larger, more highly visible fruit, I will do it :)
Though it might actually be dangerous to have watermelons hanging overhead.
I definitely agree that your empty task submission and URL hacking tricks are ingenious. Sneaky stuff!
Also--- "I went a bit mad with power, as I sometimes do" makes me giggle, imagining various scenarios where you do just that. I would like to respectfully request that you make a note of it when you go mad with power in future tasking, because I don't want to miss any of it.
Once when I was about 10, I made an unkind joke about a kid who was even less popular than me, in order to entertain some of the other kids. He looked me right in the eye and said "You're a nice person, why are you being mean to me now?" I felt terrible about teasing him that day, but in hindsight, I am really grateful he was able to cut to the heart of the matter in a way that prevented me from being tempted to do it again. It was an astonishingly insightful thing for a kid to say.
but I am actually still working on the eating part, because that was too much salt for one sitting