Anubis wrote:
To be perfectlyyy honest, I'm of the same state of mind here when it was 'decided' that the SOTM should be voted for by the general population. It's not an election, it's a competition on which is the 'best' signature. Now, forgive me if I'm of an opposite opinion to anyone else, but a man who cannot read cannot say one book is better than another. A person who has no idea on what makes a 'good' signature other than it looking pretty should not be eligible for voting.
The extent to which I 'care' about my job goes beyond having a rank. I've always elected myself to help on this website and over the few years I've been trying, all those jobs I've had have disappeared (bar a few I became unable to continue with, due to a lack of interest in Runescape). I'm not upset the SOTW is changing, I'm upset that we only get a 'thanks, goodbye'.
How can you say you're not upset about SOTW changing and then go on about how much of a bad idea you clearly think it is? I had no hand whatsoever in making this decision and didn't know about it until I read it, because it's nothing to do with me. But even I can see that this is being done because SOTW's popularity was severely dropping. Surely you must agree that this is better than it being stopped all together?
I can't really agree with your assessment of a person being eligible for voting in a signature contest either. This is the internet and people make sigs for fun. If you want to go and judge the Turner Prize, fine, you'd need some expertise in art for that. But this is not serious buisness and we should not hold it to unreasonable and arrogant standards such as that.
And you of all people should know by now that when big changes are made we just give a 'thanks, goodbye'. I don't think in anyway that is unreasonable. That's how the real world works for the most part. You can't expect us to always give a **** what people think about our decisions. Most of the times we take decisions for the good of the site first and the good of the individual second.
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