I reopened the thread, which I explicitly stated in my last post so I'm not sure why it is such a mystery. I don't know why it didn't show up in the history.
Saying you think it should be open is not explicitly stating that you opened, and we're frankly kind of shocked that you'd just re-open a thread that Tony closed.
And here I thought the whole reason for the obnoxious tasks was you insisted on the competition being done your way. At least you being solely in charge explains the complete lack of respect the tasks shows for the members.
Firstly, I'm not solely in charge. Most staffers also like these tasks. Most members seem to as well. The only one complaining here about "lack of respect" is you.

I took a pointless, drawn-out competition and made it efficient and relevant. We need someone to knight, we got many volunteers and can now more easily assess what they have to offer; we need more activity, we got it; we need help with the front site, we got it; hell we even just plain had fun with the first task.

Have you not noticed yet that you're the only one who seems to feel this way? Sure there are a few other people that aren't a fan of the competition, but most people are enjoying it. I'm wondering why you, specifically, are just so intent on harping on this in spite of the fact that most people do not share your perspective. What do you intend to accomplish here? Is your goal to stop the competition so no one gets to have fun just because you believe you're too good for these tasks?

So you agree that staff members can have the latter view and it's considered valid... but I'm not allowed to have that without a bunch of name-calling?
There aren't any staff members being asses about it. They stated their opinions and then, seeing others having a good time, let it go.

That's really my point -- Breine was shown favoritism by being let out, instead of being misled into "jumping through hoops" for no reason, and it has been quite obvious that other members are just left to scramble to do ridiculous tasks without such consideration. You've also been blatantly supporting that view in all of your posts.
You just seem to be unable to grasp that the rest of the contestants have a chance to win, while Breine never did. And you just keep rubbing it in his face, which I think is pretty cold.

EDIT: As if I needed any more proof, the fourth task has members trying to outdo each other by submitting the most info for the frontsite -- which the staff themselves, outside of SS members, rarely do! I thought there was little that could be even more obnoxious than the third task, but I was wrong.
I knew you'd complain about task four. A task that shows who is more capable of helping with the frontsite (which I stated we're looking for), gets us help with the frontsite that we do need, and is challenging? Heaven forbid. Heaven forbid.

You're right, writing essays about how we feel about our feelings and talking behind each other's backs in our cute little journal threads was way more productive.

I'm calling it: Raist is smurfing with us. There is no way he could possibly think us having fun is such an absolute crime and yet think the other competitions and their pointless over-complicated confessionals and teams and stuff was just plain fine. Haha, April Fools, you almost had me.