Now, I see a lot of people are wondering why I did this, and I shall tell you. There were two reasons, one came unintentionally. The first was thanks to Fire Kracker, to which the honor of bestowing such a godlike picture upon us belongs to him, he posed and edited the picture. You see, Fire Kracker was a bit of an odd fellow, who like many of us posers cares deeply for the reception his poses and pictures get. In sheer abasement by the fact that my threads are often able to gain much more replies and ratings than he does (not that I'm boasting) he conducted this experiment to see if it was just because I had more status than he did or some other reason. I frankly didn't think I was that known anymore than he was, but he felt like it, so being the friend I am I went along with it.
After a short time I had checked back and discovered there were ten new replies. I commented back a bit before I watched a repeat episode of The Red Shoe Diaries (it's a fucking retarded show, I think I am going to stop watching it. It's a dumb excuse for pointless sex which I don't find myself entertained watching but rather thinking how awkward it must be to act in a show like this. Plus, David Duchovny's in it, so I guess that has something to do with me watching it). Anyhow, when I woke up the next morning I saw twenty new posts. I also saw that people began speculating why Fire Kracker and I did this. I did tell Fire Kracker that a reason to this thread getting more replies than usual (not even I get this many replies this quickly, at least I don't think so) was that it was a 'controversial' thread.
I have told you what Fire Kracker was experimenting. Now what was I experimenting? Well, some of the above posters began to catch on, but really this was an arrogant move on my part to see if I would get flamed for a rediculously epic picture as 5omeone does these days (though there's more to it, obviously) or would people still 'glorify' the picture. I did this once before to little effect with my Office pictures a while back, but that ended up sparking a comic idea. What has this experiment shown me? It has shown that unfortunately status and popularity on this forum does work in your favor. Someone who is much more known throughout the Facepunch community earns much more recognition. This may have felt like an obvious observation, but it needed proof. The screenshots section is heavily built upon the biases of the users' peers, making other users pushed down and often thrown to just trolling. I believe 5omeone understood this, but took it to the extreme.
Despite what this experiment has shown, we shouldn't kill ourselves or stop posting pictures, but rather give everyone fair chances on each and every picture. Give actual crticism to everyone and not just those who aren't in your inner circle. Yes, saying that is a bit hypocritical on my part since I have gone to threads made by ChestyMcgee, The Vman, Fire Kracker, etc. and said something simple as 'Lol, nice.' with out completely examining what could be improved or what skills could be used for other pictures.
It doesn't matter all too much to me if you hate me for something like this, if you have lost faith in posting pictures because you feel you are not as known as others (when really you shouldn't, many people who aren't as known as the people who have been here longer do share many interesting ideas and strategies to their poses), or whatever the case. I also don't expect the forum to change, because that would be nonsense even to my optimism. Continue as you were, and thank you for participating in Fire Kracker and I's experiment.
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Rate me late, but I agree with everything you said. It is a shame that more popular contributors get more posts and attention than others. Again I agree that things probably won't change; but it is good that you brought it to attention.
Santz, I feel the same. I enjoy being critiqued on my work, it helps me make better pictures and do better edits. And it does make you feel like shit when more popular people get more comments because it makes you feel that your pictures don't look good in comparison to others.
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