SA: like if someone has been feeling sad and defeated because making skins and accents is a lot of work and it feels like they're wasting their time making fest entries because they don't get picked, showing them data that actually first timers get picked all the time and they're wrong to feel the way they do isn't going to make them go oh, awesome, I'll keep entering! It's going to make them feel stupid. And that will make them dig their heels in and double down.
The discussions in the thread about why the entries are declining--it's a complex issue--are likely to be way more effective than just scolding someone for feeling down because the data says something else. If hard data fixed things we wouldn't be staring down WW3 in the real world.
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(frozen comment) Re: Fest Skin Submission Decline
(Anonymous) 2025-03-18 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)The discussions in the thread about why the entries are declining--it's a complex issue--are likely to be way more effective than just scolding someone for feeling down because the data says something else. If hard data fixed things we wouldn't be staring down WW3 in the real world.
(frozen comment) Re: Fest Skin Submission Decline
(Anonymous) 2025-03-18 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)