10 Ways to fix YTMND: a proposal
Created on: August 8th, 2008
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Do me a favor, Anig. If you really don't like certain people having the pink tag...don't respect them. Good YTMNDer's will make themselves a name, and they don't need a color to prove what they make is good material. You seem to be submitting to the "authority", simply because that's its intended purpose. You wanna fix YTMND? Stop everyone from telling it to play dead and act like they were part of something bigger once. People just need to move on from old YTMND. Its not coming back.
We still have the ability to make great YTMND's, and if anything, its easier now. The old community is gone for good, and most of the internet has turned away from creativity and intelligence in favor of retardation. That f*cking blows, but as long as you set an example, we might get things back on track.
Honestly, what's so wrong with YTMND as is? Saying that someone that votes 1 frequently is automatically a downvoter seems wrong. Aside from the occasional revenge downvote (which I'll admit to doing at times), I generally just vote 1 on things when I don't agree with the humor. Everyone has a different idea of what's funny, so 1's don't always have to be interpreted as a personal attack. It's just an opinion.
As for the whole featured user thing, I don't really see what's wrong with it. I don't like the idea of featured users, but they do exist, and will continue to exist. With that in mind, there's nothing really wrong with the featured user system. The only problem is the elitist crap that comes with people being featured. By making featured users change frequently and such, it'll just make people lose featured status on a whim, which is not really helpful to the situation.
Keeping in mind that everyone has different opinions of humor, the whole colored username proposal seems like an awful idea. Who is going to decide on color for users? Won't personal grudges and differing opinions be the basis of the division? Or is username color going to be based on average site rating, therefore making it vulnerable to downvoters and such?
While I'll agree that YTMND is imperfect and that things were better when there was more traffic, I don't really think there's anything that can be done to fix it. YTMND users will ever agree on anything long enough to make things better, and there really is no solution that serves everyone well. People will always have stupid grudges that stand in the way of change and such.
Personally, I don't agree with this proposal for the most part, since it seems to benefit the "opposing side" of YTMND to where I find myself (since I've been unfairly labeled as some sort of downvoter). I'm just saying that there's no way to satisfy everyone, and that it's a poor idea to widen the already existing rift between YTMND users. People around here hate each other enough already without needing additional reasons to feel the way they do. That's my two cents anyways.
How about this: make more fads that are not stolen from 4chan or end in "____TMND." Had some of the fads of yore been created today, we'd be seeing "BarrelRollTMND" or "StaplerTMND." THEY DO NOT NEED THOSE LAST FOUR LETTERS, PEOPLE. That's the equivalent of a forced fad, and a forced fad is as good as no fad. Also, encourage more simpler, classic sites. For people like me who don't know how to make lesser versions of flash animations or, as they used to be called when simple sites were the norm, "f*ggy
short films," it's hard for us to break out into the better users. It's basically a betrayal of what YTMND used to be. I don't want to have a whole bunch of programs just so I can make a YTMND, all I want is a picture and a sound clip (and, if necessary, text to go with it). Lastly, no news exposure, please. As much as this is a colony of 4chan now, it shouldn't be.
Also, more space for comments. :)
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