Baby Roaster Excluded From Ballot! ROCK THE VOTE!
Zazazu:
They often miss the point of lulz. I was pretty surprised they put the roaster up in the first place, but it must have hit them on a good day.
spaceface:
Stupid Delphy, getting snarky with me about RULZ.
(FYI: Rule Number One of MTS 2 Forum Posting is "Obey staff at all times" ie "if staff says black is white, it's white.")
So he will delete all rebellious posts, especially those emanating from THIS den of iniquity. Hee.
Marhis:
Playing the Devil's advocate for a bit.
Actually, I'm not surprised the babbyroaster isn't listed, but not because of prudishness or something. If you adhere strictly to the contest theme, it's "Stuff for kids", and it has not exactly the same meaning than "stuff involving kids".
I also think that the submission could have been not accepted at all because of the same reason (I'm only guessing, though, as I don't know if those submissions are moderated and how), but it was too great to reject, both because of its awesomeness and the lulz/scandal potential.
Said that, the fact its theme lays in a grey area + the other fact it became a sort of symbol and overly-debated argument across the community, puts the babbyroaster in a front-runner position in respect of all the other creations in that contest, and a lot of time before the actual poll took place: it's unbalanced from the very beginning.
In a nutshell, I think MTS mods pulled a bit the rules at the submission time, and then they're keeping them a little more strict than before, in the hope it result in a sort of balance.
BTW, MTS2 it's their forum, they make the rules, and they decide what to do when the rules have to be discussed; one can be disappointed or happy, can agree or not, but the arbiter decisions are not up for debate, in any case, or there would be no point to even participate in a contest. I'm sorry, but in their shoes, I think I would have deleted those posts as well, being them not pertinent and trollish.
But again, I'm not much a revolutionary spirit, so it's easier for me to not be pissed off.
spaceface:
Well, there is no evidence as to whether the deleted posts were non-pertinent or trollish, because they have been DELETED. That they irritated Delphy is the only absolute certainty.
The probabilities are against either, however. If the posts were about the vote, they were pertinent. The majority of people who posted are identifiable as well-known MATYzens or PMBDers and it is highly unlikely that they posted trollishly.
Why did MTS2 "staff" even leave the thread open for comments if they didn't WANT comments? They could surely just have posted a poll.
(My guess is that they wanted people to say nice things about the items of course, but instead they mostly got us. Sigh.)
Phaenoh:
You hit the nail on the head there Marhis. Almost all of the moderators loved the Baby Roaster. We left it out of the polls because we didn't want the Baby Roaster to hijack the thread with its Awesomeness/CreepyAsHellness. It does NOT fit the challenge theme so it wasn't possible for it to win. Our policies for entries are far looser because we are trying to encourage people to enter. Also, how can a file that was never submitted to MTS2 win? Yes we are slightly hiding behind technicalities but it was decided improper to include it. You can at least take solace I hope in the fact that when it hit moderation queue all of us moderators were like, 'ZOMG you have to come look at this! it is so win! squeee!!' And all those deleted posts? Every single one of them are people complaining asking why isn't the baby roaster on the vote.
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