You know, Drew, you could think of how you want to run the contest /before/ you post the thread with the rules and such, instead of coming up with the rules as you go and just editing your post to add them in / change them as you think of them. It wouldn't kill you to wait more than thirty seconds after you decide you're going to run it before you officially start it, and it's kind of silly to accept signups while you're actively (and quietly) changing the rules--people might want to know what they're signing up for. Now go start a poll to see if you'll listen to this post or not.

Ahem, the rules were "Post here to sign up, and you can have teams" once the first four people had signed up. You didn't even add that "Max 5" part until you already had four people listed as confirmed participants.

Drew Linky wrote:

Captain_Pollution wrote: Ahem, the rules were "Post here to sign up, and you can have teams" once the first four people had signed up. That was NEVER a rule. I said people could make teams and then sign up or whatever; I didn't care.

I don't know what you're disagreeing with, your explanation sounds like exactly what I said you said.

Drew Linky wrote:

Captain_Pollution wrote: You didn't even add that "Max 5" part until you already had four people listed as confirmed participants. as far as I can recall, that had always been there until I started these threads. What you wanted was larger teams, from your post saying you wouldn't join or something until they were bigger. If you want, I can take you out of the roster. I have no problem with that. I'm just trying to satisfy as many people as I can and your bickering with me over things I may or may not have said and done is really taking the wind out of my sails over here.

It definitely was not added until you'd already had four people sign up, because ThunderThief, Hacker, and I were all only signing up out of excitement that we could have all of us on one team. I edited my post after you edited yours, so that my post would make sense in context. And yeah, unless they say they still want in, I don't think you should consider any of the people who signed up, and in their signup posts made it clear that they were counting on the rules you had at the time, valid.

I'm not upset or whatever, by the way, I'm just playing, mostly. I think Drew knows me well enough to've /understood that/. I do think it's really lame to keep changing the rules once people have started signing up, though, especially since most of the rules you've changed/added (which is all of them, now) were just silently edited in. At the very least you should keep a changelog at the bottom of your post or something.

Drew Linky wrote:

Summer is fucking my memory up. Or something.

;)

Drew Linky wrote:

At any rate, the point is you want to be on a team with a few other people specifically, right? If that's the case, then I may not assign teams randomly. Or, even better in my opinion, is make both options available. So that people who want to decide which team they're on can do so, or they can be put into a pot where I will decide for them.

No way, I want to be on a team with twenty other people specifically. If you can't make an exception for that team to exist, then just go all in with random teams. Random teams will be a lot cooler if people don't have a choice about it.