I don't believe drawing and pinging people who will not receive their prizes within 24 hours would alleviate the frustration.
Every discussion of alternative paths has mentioned making it clear that prize distribution would be delayed. I don't get the idea that frustration would only be alleviated by people getting prizes and so nothing should be done until there are prizes to give out.
People can be reasonable about emergencies and with the host's situation being up in the air, probably most will happily wait for them. (There are always the jerks.)
The very first post on this matter was about the lack of communication and I think that's the feedback. Since the update about the host not being able to get online there has been no further communication. No one saying, "we've discussed and think waiting is best for now, please have patience and we're sorry" or something like that. Just silence again. That last post was over a week ago. I think the main frustration stems from the absence of anyone willing to face the situation.
Maybe after a week had gone by someone could have posted again outlining steps going forward or some sort of timetable for when next steps would be taken. Like say, "After 2 weeks/3 weeks/a month we'll do [this thing] next." Which would give the host's troubles time to resolve themselves so maybe that next step won't be needed or if things are actually super bad for them, set expectations for people. But really just saying as mentioned above, "Yeah, there is no plan yet/the plan is to wait. Apologies," would be/would have been enough. It's the lack of ...anything really that makes it seems like there isn't anyone that cares.
Re: Dom Thread
Every discussion of alternative paths has mentioned making it clear that prize distribution would be delayed. I don't get the idea that frustration would only be alleviated by people getting prizes and so nothing should be done until there are prizes to give out.
People can be reasonable about emergencies and with the host's situation being up in the air, probably most will happily wait for them. (There are always the jerks.)
The very first post on this matter was about the lack of communication and I think that's the feedback. Since the update about the host not being able to get online there has been no further communication. No one saying, "we've discussed and think waiting is best for now, please have patience and we're sorry" or something like that. Just silence again. That last post was over a week ago. I think the main frustration stems from the absence of anyone willing to face the situation.
Maybe after a week had gone by someone could have posted again outlining steps going forward or some sort of timetable for when next steps would be taken. Like say, "After 2 weeks/3 weeks/a month we'll do [this thing] next." Which would give the host's troubles time to resolve themselves so maybe that next step won't be needed or if things are actually super bad for them, set expectations for people. But really just saying as mentioned above, "Yeah, there is no plan yet/the plan is to wait. Apologies," would be/would have been enough. It's the lack of ...anything really that makes it seems like there isn't anyone that cares.