#eoff Chatroom - Be in it to win a game at the end of the year!

[Nicolas]

At the risk of being ejected from the contest: Counting previous months is not fair and only serves to prevent new people from joining the conversation. Why should I bother participating when I'd have at most half the odds as anyone else?

Last I checked, this is a generous offer that rewards little effort and you're not being charged a penny. There's that saying about looking a gift horse in the mouth, I'd say this applies.

I'm not questioning your generosity. But it seems to me the point of this is to give people an incentive to be active. As someone who is only posting here in earnest for the first time, I'm just saying that the way the "contest" is set up, it's not going to convince me to start chatting. If everyone were given an equal shot starting now, I absolutely would join the chat. I was resolved to do it until I got to the part where you said the past six months count.

Just a little feedback is all; I agree with your right to manage your thing however you want.

The problem with that logic is that you need incentive to join the chat. Without the incentive of "starting fairly", you wouldn't join. It makes sense to give a reward, or chance at one, to those who chat regularly and expect nothing.

You choose to go to chat. You choose to be active. You choose to get to know the folks there. It's completely up to you and something like a video game shouldn't really influence you.

This whole idea seems to be a way to introduce new people to chat with a slight incentive to socialize. It's not like you can babble randomly and waste lines in chat without being disqualified. And, if you look at your odds, it really won't make that much of a difference when the year is up, especially if the numbers grow again.

Honestly, chat does need a few more active members. As great a place as it is, the activity is down as of late. Chalk it up to vacations, work, and whatnot. The people that frequent are great, if not a little strange, but you'll find plenty of the ones that are activity on the Forums to be the active ones in chat. I would highly recommend getting to know them as they are good people.

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