I'm one of the people who has long advocated for this and even with the issues people have with a couple of entries, I'm still into it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Nobody has to agree with me, of course, but my personal philosophy is I can accept a few rough around the edges submissions to get some new blood among winners and to boost smaller artists' confidence.
That said, I agree you can't have it both ways. People in my camp will need to accept "lower quality submissions," as you said, winning. I do think it's silly people have complained for as long as I've been on FR salt communities about MV winning everything, and now that we have other winners whose work they like less, they're complaining about MV losing (note: I don't know when MV's last win was, this is my first fest back since returning from hiatus).
SA ypue point aside, it's kind of dumb to say people were complaining about MV winning too often and now they're complaining that they lost. you know that anon comms and smr aren't a monolith of opinion right? there's going to be different people who think different things. has it occurred to you that the people hoping MV would lose for once, aren't the same people mourning when they lose?
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Re: Flameforger's Festival 2023
(Anonymous) 2023-08-30 03:16 am (UTC)(link)That said, I agree you can't have it both ways. People in my camp will need to accept "lower quality submissions," as you said, winning. I do think it's silly people have complained for as long as I've been on FR salt communities about MV winning everything, and now that we have other winners whose work they like less, they're complaining about MV losing (note: I don't know when MV's last win was, this is my first fest back since returning from hiatus).
Re: Flameforger's Festival 2023
(Anonymous) 2023-08-30 05:21 am (UTC)(link)Re: Flameforger's Festival 2023
(Anonymous) 2023-08-30 05:23 am (UTC)(link)ypue point aside, it's kind of dumb to say people were complaining about MV winning too often and now they're complaining that they lost. you know that anon comms and smr aren't a monolith of opinion right? there's going to be different people who think different things. has it occurred to you that the people hoping MV would lose for once, aren't the same people mourning when they lose?
Re: Flameforger's Festival 2023
(Anonymous) 2023-08-30 06:38 am (UTC)(link)so more of a "you can't please everyone" thing than hypocrisy or [shocked pikachu reaction] kinda deal.
Re: Flameforger's Festival 2023
(Anonymous) 2023-08-30 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)Nothing like seeing 888's(who has been trying to encourage new artists) entry being used to belittle and chase away new artists.