User blog:Nathan Mapping/Trashbin (8): Contests

as many of you may have seen, the amount of song contests on this wiki have increased in the past 6 months, infact 4 new contests were made with only 1 of them being original. so in this blog i will explain why nearly every contest outside of the 3 contests sponsored by mbu will flop

first of all, originality. when making a contest, you should take into consideration wether your idea is original. a contest based around a specific genre already exists (electrovision) and thus every other contest like that will just flop very badly.

secondly, quality. you really thought running a contest will be so easy, didn't you? guess what, that's not how it is. you need some skills to run a succesful contest like visual skills (this is for the theme art), advanced wikitext skills and ability to make the contest appealing. if not, your contest will flop (probably).

lastly, support. not in the meaning of being supported by the mbu. you need support from the community so like people will actually join, not just sit and watch you flop. and quick help, you won't get it by advertising it in the comment section of mappervision, i mean who the hell checks the comment section honestly.

so in conclusion, 99% of the future contests will flop one of the three reasons mentioned above. i'm not saying you shouldn't make a contest, what i tried to implement there is that at least think about it twice instead of doing everything right ahead.

oh and also, please stop advertising on the other contest pages, it's not just annoying but it isn't really appreciated by the moderators.

thanks for reading this hella long thingy i made up and see you in the next one 💖