Awesome. You guys solved next to nothing here.
T, I'm a bit mystified by this comment. Please describe what aspects of this matter remain unresolved.
Congrats on the new contest and all, but what of the POTM for the grown ups?
My understanding is that POTM continues much as it always has, with the deletion of Rule #9. (relatively inconsequential, actually; I am sure that some people will opt to honor the rule voluntarily in spite of its deletion, and that's perfectly acceptable) Otherwise, it seems to be completely intact. Am I missing something? In what way is POTM no longer
"for the grown-ups"? Just asking an honest question, not being confrontational.
Still need someone willing to take it over. Otherwise, it dies.
And don't be fooled, there is no power involved.
I got the impression that
thez is stating that she is going to take the torch, or have I missed something else?
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And what's wrong with that? In my experience people on Terraforums just want to see pictures of plants and don't care who grew it. If the main criteria is the grower's skill then the winning grower should not be allowed to enter the next months contest. Get rid of the ego-centric "growers/ownership" mindset and you open up the contest to photos of plants in arboretums, botanical gardens or old school grower's collections who have little time or interest in posting on forums.
I was simply stating that
up to this point in time, the contest was engineered to include grower's skill as an important factor in the contest criteria, by including a rule limiting ownership to a minimum of 6 months. If what people want
instead is just a
"pretty pictures of pretty pitchers" contest, then you need to engineer a very different set of rules that does
not emphasize grower skills, but instead emphasize aesthetic merit, etc. There is nothing wrong with a beauty pageant style contest, but I believe the rules for such need to be very different than the current set. JMO, of course.