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Yeah, my proposals were more focused on the fairyness of the selection, without thinking of the counter-effects like fatigue, which of course you also have to consider. But as I said, they were suggestions which are hopefully useful to you when you will have to update the rules/structure in the future

I think withdrawals were more related to the users being invited on the forum without being regular Totallympics users rather than lost of momentum (which of course may happen even to the most active Totallympics user, I'm not saying it's impossible). I absolutely agree about the balance. A first question might be, is it good for the TISC to have 35 nations represented instead of 25? Absolutely yes. But the question might also be, would be good for the TISC to have a user who post a song in February, then looses the "momentum" and doesn't follow the TISC at all, and maybe he even wins the contest? I think the answer is no. So loosing that user/nation for an edition because the user lost the momentum and would not publish the song in late March would not be THAT bad for the TISC, in my opinion.

Deadlines can also be seen as a sort of "natural selection" to keep only interested users into the competition I am totally okay with inviting users into the contest, but I have always been against running after users to take part just for the sake of increasing the number of users/nations represented. Sometimes this can cause users publishing a song and then never opening the thread again. But how can the user from A nation know which song the user from B nation would select, if the user has not published the song yet? Maybe he would publish a loosing song and by inviting more users from B nation a "stronger" song would be selected Also, please read my posts on this as an external point of view/suggestions which may be useful for you guys for the future, not as an "admin strong advice" Of course you decide on this.

That can be okay, but this would keep allowing users to publish the song immediately, and that would make it really hard for another user from the same nation to change the song, because that user would feel like he is complaining about the entry with the other user. I would rather set two completely different periods in the TISC schedule: one for National Jury Registration and after this window close, there will be one window for entries selection. Right now we have: (are the two bolded events the same? If so, you can use the same name for both) My idea would be: Dates are random and can be changed, but the point is no one can post the song before the national jury registration close. This would have two positive effects: 1) Songs would be published more or less in the same period, avoiding one song being published in February and one in April (this could be an advantage for the one published in February, because users would have more time to listen it). 2) Users from a nation already represented would be more motivated to join because they will take part in the national entry selection. To give users who join first still a little advantage, you can say that if there is a jury with 2 or more users and it is really impossible to find an agreement to which song will be selected, the user who first registered in the contest will win the "tie-breaker". Also, users who join the contest between March 21st and April 10th might still take part in the contest and in the voting process, but will have no word in deciding the national entry.

I have a question (or maybe a suggestion). Do the TISC rules say something about a situation where: - The deadline to post the song is on Day 50 - User A from country X register on Day 1 - User A from country X publish the song on Day 10 - User B from country X joins the contest on Day 20, but he does not like country X entry and he would like to change it What happens in a situation like this? Can the song be changed? If not, if User A is "scared" user B and user C from his same country X, he would publish the song as soon as he/she can so that the entry for that country is closed and the other users can still join the contest but without taking part in the song selection for their country If the rules do not say anything about that (if they do of course this message is totally useless ), maybe it would be better to add something on this?

Hello Adriano, as I have just written in another thread with a similar problem, I hope you will change your mind on this and use the ignore function for the user(s) you do not want to read posts. The posts of that/those user(s) will not appear to you anymore (when you are logged in of course). Unfortunately in a 200 users community it is normal you do not get well with all 200 users, but until when you get well with the majority of them, it would be a pity to leave a community just because of some exceptions Trying to look at the bright side, on social networks we could find 500x worse comments than the worst I have read here, but for the same reason above we are all still using them somehow

Hello thepharoah, I am sorry to hear about that! As @MHSN said, you can use the ignore function for any user you do not want to read the posts. Just select the user and click on this button: The posts of that/those user(s) will not appear to you anymore (when you are logged in of course). Unfortunately in a 200 users community it is normal you do not get well with all 200 users, but until when you get well with the majority of them, it would be a pity to leave a community just because of some exceptions Trying to look at the bright side, on social networks we could find 500x worse comments than the worst I have read here, but for the same reason above we are all still using them somehow

Guys, I understand the situation is tense, but this thread should not become a place for insults. All future posts in this thread will be moderated before they will appear to everybody. I hope you understand!