SydLexia.com - The Forums :: View topic - NEW! Rule 24: No, you cannot run a contest

Posted: Jun 21 2012 11:35 am

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24. No, you cannot run a contest.
This is SydLexia.com. It is Syd Lexia's website. If Syd Lexia wants to run a giveaway, a forum battle, or a video game challenge series, he will run one. If you want to run one, you must first ask Syd Lexia's permission. Then, once you have it, you must get Syd Lexia's express written consent on every single detail of the contest. Until such consent is given, you cannot move forward. You must defer to Syd in every regard in terms of the contest. For example, if you want to run a video game challenge series, Syd must approve every individual challenge. Or, if you're running a forum battle, Syd must approve the teams and the pairings, including the randomization thereof. If you want to do something one way and Syd wants it done another way, you're doing it Syd's way. Why? Because it's his website. If these seems unreasonable, too bad. Start your own website and host your contest there. However, please not that you will not be allowed to advertise it on SydLexia.com anywhere outside of the OPP forum. This includes the IRC channel.

Going forward, this is how it's going to be. Since Forum Battle 2012 already started, there's nothing I can do about it.

Posted: Jun 21 2012 12:42 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Since Forum Battle 2012 already started, there's nothing I can do about it.

Huh? You said it yourself, it's your site. There's a lot you could do about it.

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

Can we still advertise in our sigs?

Posted: Jun 21 2012 02:10 pm

You're misunderstanding me, Hacker. Yes, you can advertise your team in an authorized forum contest in your sig. You CANNOT advertise an offsite contest in your sig.

Klimbatize, no. If you guys honestly don't believe FB 2012 is a horrible clusterfuck that should be halted immediately and restarted from the sign-up portion at a later date with PREDEFINED INALTERABLE RULES set forth from the outset, who am I to ruin your fun? I'm not gonna be the bad guy here. Have your clusterfuck. Enjoy.

Posted: Jun 21 2012 02:13 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

If you guys honestly don't believe FB 2012 is a horrible clusterfuck that should be halted immediately and restarted from the sign-up portion at a later date with PREDEFINED INALTERABLE RULES set forth from the outset, who am I to ruin your fun? I'm not gonna be the bad guy here. Have your clusterfuck. Enjoy.

QFT.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

Syd Lexia wrote:

You're misunderstanding me, Hacker. Yes, you can advertise your team in an authorized forum contest in your sig. You CANNOT advertise an offsite contest in your sig.

Klimbatize, no. If you guys honestly don't believe FB 2012 is a horrible clusterfuck that should be halted immediately and restarted from the sign-up portion at a later date with PREDEFINED INALTERABLE RULES set forth from the outset, who am I to ruin your fun? I'm not gonna be the bad guy here. Have your clusterfuck. Enjoy.

Honestly, it would be better if that were to happen. As soon as Fig started to complain about people not being on his team like he wanted, I knew it was going to collapse inevitably. So... whether you restart this or not is your call. But if you decide to let it run without any changes, I will at least see to it that this year has a team of champions.

Posted: Jun 21 2012 02:17 pm

It's up to you, Drew. If you want to stop it, you and I can go back to the drawing board and figure out the best way to do this.

I appreciate that you did your best to try and make everyone happy, but I guess you learned a lesson about why that doesn't usually work so well.

Posted: Jun 21 2012 02:19 pm

Drew Linky wrote:

whether you restart this or not is your call. But if you decide to let it run without any changes, I will at least see to it that this year has a team of champions.

Correct me if I'm wrong Syd, but NO DREW. It's YOUR Call. It's YOUR Contest.
EDIT: Syd slipped that post in before mine, but it proves my point.

Take Ownership of it. RUN it how the fuck you want without everyone else's inputs. No matter how you do this, someone will be pissed off. You can't please the masses.

Run it how it is now? People will bitch. (Like me and whoever else has been)
Reset it? People will bitch. (Bitch about how they didn't get their way.)

Unless I'm responding to someone's post. This will be the last thing I have to say about the Forum Battle.

Posted: Jun 21 2012 02:23 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Klimbatize, no. If you guys honestly don't believe FB 2012 is a horrible clusterfuck

I think everyone pretty much agrees with this. But you saying you can't do anything about it when it's your site and you just bitch-slapped everyone to remind them of that comes off as cowardly.

Syd Lexia wrote:

I'm not gonna be the bad guy here. Have your clusterfuck. Enjoy.

At least being the "bad guy" would be the rational decision here.

Posted: Jun 21 2012 03:52 pm

What about the FB 2010 Title Defense Matches?? Sad

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Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

Cattivo wrote:

Back of my mind, that's how I've felt all day.

Posted: Jun 21 2012 04:16 pm

haha

cant wait til everyone just quits and there is no forum battle 2012

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

username wrote:

haha

cant wait til everyone just quits and there is no forum battle 2012

I really hope this does not happen.

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Aw shit! I was gonna do a "100 greatest metal albums" list and give out prizes for guessing each entry. This Is A Joke

Posted: Jun 22 2012 02:39 am

I feel like Not Sure should get some kind of exemption. His gaming contests are fucking amazing.

Posted: Jun 22 2012 11:53 am

Fighter_McWarrior wrote:

I feel like Not Sure should get some kind of exemption. His gaming contests are fucking amazing.

LOL. Not Sure's competition was used as the example in the new rule. Pretty sure he's not getting that exception.

Posted: Jun 22 2012 12:35 pm

Just saying. His have never been anything less than perfectly organized. At least not insofar as I can remember.

Posted: Jun 22 2012 12:36 pm

The rule still allows Not Sure to ask permission.

Posted: Jun 22 2012 05:14 pm

Unless it's Hacker circa 2009, it's very unlikely I'll deny anyone outright the right to hold a contest.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Jun 22 2012 09:26 pm

Hey, is there gonna be a Sydlexia Rule 34?

Posted: Jun 23 2012 01:37 am

there already is a rule 34 but well we're not supposed to talk about it

Posted: Jun 23 2012 02:09 am

The first corollary of Rule 34 is you do not talk about rule 34.

Posted: Jun 23 2012 02:10 am

It's about Erin Esurance.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

Nonsense. All of it.