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Originally Posted by Raistlin
MecaKane wins. Hands down.
Feedback! :D
Why oh why did you save feedback for last? I can't live up to this pressure.
Oooh, main event time.
Raistlin counts as seven members. You forgot that.
Yeah, it's going to be hard to top 'Crono on a Unicycle'.
Oh man, I just realized redxiiii was the Ace candidate for Feedback and he hasn't got anything in. Shame on him ;_; Oh well.
so here we come to the last of the last, the best of the best, the whiniest of the whiniest, the Raistlinest of the RSLs, the Feedback forum. We might actually get to start voting and stuff this weekend after I post this one. I hope you enjoyed the tour of 30 forums. For the record, I received 132 submissions. That's a lot and surely a participation record for the elections. Anyway...
Denmark (representing the BAotW party):Quote:
Choose one:
a) Discuss the use of acoustic feedback in various forms of rock music. Give examples of bands that use it to varying effect.
b) Write an example of a question you will be made fun of for asking. Be creative.
c) Give Election Booth feedback on the structure and quality of the 2005 elections.
b) Write an example of a question you will be made fun of for asking. Be creative.
Okay, so when I first received the Private Message from the ever intriguing Election Booth, I was...not so much intrigued, more disappointed. But let's not think about that. The reason I'm here is to ask a question I will be made fun of for asking, right? Well, at first I was going to ask one of the old standards, namely "how do you revive Aeris?" But then I thought, Hey, I can do better than that. I wanted to come up with a question so unique, so utterly stupid, that I would be remembered forever at EoFF as "the guy who came up with that really stupid question in that election thing". But then again, how hard is it to say something at EoFF that you could get made fun of for asking? I mean, with disgruntled old men like Bleys and Raistlin around, it's almost impossible to not be made fun of. But little me, I had big dreams. I wanted to be made fun of by some stupid newbie. Lofty expectations, right?
Rydia's Secret Lover (representing the #eoff party):
C.
The 2005 election is quite possibly the most involved and complex election yet. I can't say this with 100% certainty as this is only the second election that I have ever paid attention to, but I'm pretty sure I'm right on this one.
There are only a few things I would have changed. First, the time period between announcing the rules and closing party registration was pretty long. I don't know exactly how long, but it seemed like a long time. While this gave people the chance to throw parties together at the last minute (like the anti-eoff party), it has also made me lose a little interest in the whole thing. But this is minor.
Another thing is the "no staff can lead a party" rule that was sort of thrown out the window anyway. The reason for this is that everyone knows that the staff are clearly the only ones capable of running a party. They are also the only people capable of programming a VCR, running a marathon, and batting .400 for an entire season of baseball.
The last thing is even more minor. 30 forums seems like a lot. It might have been easier on everyone (especially Election Booth) to have combined a few of the forums. But I can also see the positives in this. It gave more people a chance to join in on the fun. However, only a few parties were capable of getting 30+ members, giving them an advantage. Or is it an advantage? Only time will tell.
The organization of the elections this year is top notch. You can tell that Election Booth put a lot of time into this. It just feels a lot more official than in the past. Having certain requirements for each party was great. I like how this resulted in a fair amount of parties, but also a managable amount. Having each party pick an official slogan, mascot, and banner was nice as well.
In conclusion, you really should vote for me because Raistlin sucks.
Raistlin (representing thecrotchety old geezerUnne Avatar party):
b) Write an example of a question you will be made fun of for asking. Be creative.
Hey, all, I just have one question - Can you make a Newbie Forum to get enough members to make a Food forum to create the interest for a Birthday forum to make people happy enough for a Leaving/Returning forum to get enough geeks to make a Computer/Web Design/Technical Forum for which we'll then need a Spam forum to then get enough cool people for a Flaming/Battle forum to get enough of Bleys to make a Swearing forum in order to get me for a Oldbie Forum(R.I.P Eeyore's) in order to get even more of Bleys for an Anime Forum for which we'll then need a Music forum and then when I leave make an ORPG forum and then to release all this competitiveness we'll need an Event/Competitions Forum, and then we'll need forums combining all of the above forums, so then we'll need a Forums Suggestion Forums for suggesting forums like Xenogears(<3), and for all these newbies we'll need bigger avatars and since this question is so cool you'll need to archive this thread, and since we'll have all these cool people can you bring back post counts and then immediately make me a Cid's Knight and/or administrator?
Thanks for any and all answers.
Del Murder (representing the Elitist Party):
Sure I could choose option b and say something like 'Is Raistlin annoying/Does RSL crap in the woods?' or come up with some sort of question involving a crotch or ShlupQuack's buttocks, but instead I decided to be serious for a moment and talk about my good personal friend, Election Booth.
Election Booth was born the lovechild of an elevator and a pencil sharpener. His father was an alcoholic and his mother used to turn tricks down on old JFK Drive, a block past Maple. At 16 he had enough and left home, and that was when he started to get into politics. He was a gopher for Gore 2000 but the controversial Florida vote caused him to begin to lose his faith in democracy. That was when he discovered Eyes on Final Fantasy. He joined the forum in 01 to take over as the leader of the forums elections, and what an elections they were. The next year he (or she, rather) returned for another campaign, but the interest was not as great as before. In the 03-04 season the format got a massive overhaul, resulting in a return to the popularity it once had, and saw it achieve new heights. Now, in the 05 campaign, EB has outdone himself again, and we have the most popular elections to date. Here are testimonials from some of his closest friends:
Award Guy: EB and I dated for a while in late 02. It was the same old story. Trophy meets recycle bin. Trophy and recycle bin fall in love. Recycle bin catches trophy with his sister. Other than that, our professional relationship has been quite strong, and I respect what he does.
Raistlin: I've been a member of this board for 18 or 19 years now, and I must say that our current election format is the best ever. Well, not as good as it was back in the EZboard days, but we can't expect that from someone with a member id over one thousand.
EoFF Sniper: [not available for comment]
Del Murder: The elections have always had a special placce in my heart. In 01 it was the thing that kept me going to this website, and if not for them I likely wouldn't have came back and a lot of things wouldn't have happened. Nait did a good enough job, but let's face it, I don't even think he knew how his voting system worked, so it wasn't the mechanics that made that event so special. The next time it was taken over by DC, aka Sakura Yume, and while her system at least made sense, it was too straightforward. It's not that she did a bad job, it was just that her job wasn't very memorable. I can remember some of the parties but not much from the event itself. eest changed all that when he took over. Last year I didn't like the grouping of the forums, but once I found out what he had in mind it made sense. Coming up with specific tasks for the candidtates was brilliant, and likely time consuming. The elections stopped being about making a couple original and a couple unoriginal parties and spamming up the joint; there was an actual event and structure to it. He even came to me for the idea of a secret party and I thought that was really fun. This year he took it a step further. Each freaking forum has it's own question, and they range from the simple to the detailed. I like how some of the questions are completely straightforward, forcing the candidtates to use their own creativity in answering them, but on the other hand some of the answers can be boring when that happens. The best part about this method is that now we can vote for who came up with the best answer, rather than just voting for our party resulting in the party with the most members always winning. Quality over quantity! The tasks along with the official FF mascot put some much needed FF back into this FF board. And who knows, maybe he has something else in store for us. It's the little things, too, like random 'no staff leaders' rules, or 'you can start your thread in whatever forum you like' comments, and of course the Ultros theme. In the future I'd like to see more wacky and subtle rules and maybe a couple really bizarre questions, like 'what did you think of General Leo's hair style' or 'dress up as your favorite ffx character and take a picture of it'. Then again maybe those are there, I haven't seen all of the questions. I can imagine how much work it would take to make up an original task for 30 forums and then keep track of it all, so I'm not sure if he can continue that output on his own without dying, but if he can, great. Otherwise he knows where he can get help. In conclusion, eest saved the elecions much like Josh Smith saved the Dunk Contest.
repo man: *throws wrenches*
And for the hell of it, here are some more 'make fun of' feedback questions:
Can we have a repo man forum?
Why can't Linus make threads but Joel can?
Can we have a Monty Mole avatar?
The staff made a slight mixup and rather than politely and civilly point it out I'm going to make some kind of sarcastic and boastful post and expect to be taken seriously and at the same time bask in my 'wit'.
Can we have a Rad Racer forum?
redxiii (representing the Ace party):
http://www.yolatengo.com/sellout/beanbath310.jpg vs http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/tootlben/banda01.jpg
Wow, these bands have been around a long time, which makes them perfect for feedback because everyone knows only partially rotten corpses hang out in the feedback forum.
Anyway, both Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth rock out to some serious acoustic feedback. You should check out the SYR series of self released album from Sonic Youth which are the feedbackiest. They pretty much have to win over Yo La Tengo just because like, no reason man except feedback is all about arbitrary decisions and I just made one.
There are plenty of other bands that throw around the crazy noise but these are crappy poseur death metal bands and crap. I mean, if you are really into death, why don't you just kill yourself and save me the trouble of doing it? There's some feedback for you, you sorry no-skillz-having losers.
Also, Kim Gordon is hot. Now excuse me while i go stare at my shoes...
I lose again.
RSL wins because of his avatar. (which I came up with, btw)
Raistlins was confusing. :(
I don't know what Kirobaito is talking about.
I actually like redxiii's answer the best. :D
Good answers all.
now that i've finished the monumental task of posting responses I can relax by...beginning the monumental task of the actual voting. Look for that sometime tomorrow.
Wow, look at all those responses.
But Del's was funny ;) And Wezly does suck. *punches* Did I mention Denny sucks, too? And RSL sucks but only at nighttime. I dunno red so I guess he doesn't suck ;)
YAY it's over! *spreads love*