Sorry about that Sonious, work was workier than expected, and I have been sleeping or working for money or working on my own projects and forgetting; sorry for the suspense for what is probably now almost an inevitable letdown, but have you read this yet?
I mean, apparently half the Internet already has, but anyway, I signed up (there's a link to the forum in the article which I think you might have to be member to actually get there) and have committed to draw one pony every day for 365 days, not because I'm good, but because I can't draw either (in fact, today's pony, pony 20, sucked balls) and, as the author points out, repetition.
I don't know, since you feel you can't draw either, a bit of friendly rivalry might help us both, and you're already a go getter with your project, so if you still need a year's resolution (or already need to re-resolve), well, there you go. At the very least now another group knows I'm doing the 365 ponies thing, so that's more pressure on me, including someone who has proven he will try and use damaging information, which brings me why I replied to desiring_change here instead of directly to you, Sonious. Now, I'm going to talk to him for a while, so if you want to quit reading, now's a good time.
Hi, desiring_change! At least, I'm pretty sure you're desiring_change; at the very least, you're someone who's so unpopular that your posts are semi-transparent automatically (Green Reaper has karma follow anonymous posters too, now, and since it turned out the anonymous poster who spent a year bugging everyone about Crusader Cat while accruing a quite astounding collection of 1 stars and not much else was actually desiring_change the entire time, I'm assuming your desiring_change). Anyway, hi person who is probably desiring_change!
You posting this reply is proof that God is real, and He loves me, but He does still test me. I'd like to offer you a proposition; not the same one I made to Sonious, but you should probably read the link too. At the very least, I may end up using the phrase "If you want to work here, close!" and unless you are just a big Alec Baldwin fan (which would be perfectly understandable) you may not get it.
Anyway, we had a talk recently, when it was revealed you were "annoying Crusader Cat obsessive," when I pointed you may get a bit more respect if you try and contribute on-topic. You're doing better; you're starting to get the on-topic part. I mean, the Nala thing was actually a bit off-topic, but that was Rakuen Growlithe, not you. You're just still not contributing. You're just attacking the same old target obsessively; not Crusader Cat, but, you know, me.
Well, you're annoying me (congratulations on that, by the way), but I think I'm going to take a page out of Stephen Covey's 7 habits playbook and go about this "win/win," how about that? See, you're not contributing, you're just attacking; I, on the other hand, contribute. Literally; right now, I am tied for second with Green Reaper on the Recent Contributions sidebar (and keep in mind I was unable to submit for an entire month during the time covered) for the most stories submitted behind Fred, not counting Mink, who technically doesn't submit to Flayrah.
Now, you think I'm a weak target because, let's face it, my opinions about furry are not very popular. That's true, and to top it off, I am a complete asshole in the comments. Case in point, this thread. But I contribute.
Do you know why Flayrah won Best Magazine at the Ursa Majors Awards last year, and will probably have no problem winning it again despite, well, a lot of our regular contributors kind of being assholes to our readers this year (me, Patch Packrat got into a big, ugly fight with Perri_Rhoades about a video, me, Fred actually posted a story with the phrase "sue me" in it, me, even Green Reaper pissed everyone off with that "vote for Obama!" story and me)? It's not because we have better content; it's because we have content. Period.
We are constantly updating; you may not like our stories, but at least we have them. Look at Furry News Network; when they had original content, it was just as good as ours, if not better. But they stopped creating original content; seriously, it's a good thing we keep updating, because now there are not one, but two sites that count on us to keep their main page refreshing. The only furry news site that can compete with us update wise is the aforementioned Mink's In-Fur-Nation, so Green Reaper made it a part of our site, too.
And, on one hand, any Flayrah contributor who regularly has double digits in the Recent Contributors sidebar is almost automatically singled out for attack; Fred and me probably single-handedly account for 75% of all 1-star folds, but Isaiah Jacobs is also frequently targeted, and while Higgs Raccoon does not regularly have to fear folding stories, he accounts for a good third of "why did you post this?" comments, and even Green Reaper gets a shit load of those, and thanks to the aforementioned story about voting, even he has had the dubious honor of being folded. As the linked article points out, people hate doers, because it makes them feel bad about not doing themselves.
But what you have to realize is that, even if you don't think a certain story is 100%, grade-A furry or even that good, it is still infinitely better to run the story than not run it; if that wasn't true, you'd be replying to this article on Furry News Network instead of here. David Wong knows this; he's an editor for a popular humor website that updates every day and is constantly asking for its readers to contribute. Because he knows if you only publish the 100%, grade-A material, you're going to update once a year, at best. And then nobody is going to be watching, because nobody expects the site that never updates to actually update.
On the other hand, people do respect contributors. Yeah, I'm an asshole in the comments, but I do the work. I submit content; I do the boring shit nobody wants to do like the comic Previews and the Newsbytes archives (on my own initiative, I might add). And occasionally, I write something someone actually likes. It happens. And people put up with me being an asshole because they know I contribute. And, yes, there are non-contributors who hate themselves and take it out on the top contributors, but if you look at the top three contributors right now on the Recent Contributors sidebar and the top three highest rated comments of the month sidebar, you'll see that these sidebars highlight the exact same people.
I said this was a win/win proposition, but I've already won. You think people read the comments after a year? I've read the archives, and a quadruple amputee could count the number of comments I read on his fingers! You'll never get famous in the comments; you'll never get noticed in the comments; you'll never get respect in the comments; you'll never win in the comments.
Now, just in case you haven't fucking figured it out, all I'm proposing is that you write a story and submit it. Simple. Easy. Anyone can do it. And I guarantee you, Green Reaper will run it. He may edit the shit out of it, and I guess if you write an opinion piece explaining Crusader Cat needs to die screaming, well, you voided the warrantee.
We don't have to be enemies; I mean, you can still hate me and all, that's okay, but I said before, what you really want is respect. From anybody. And that's all I'm offering. A chance to earn my respect. I hate Rakuen Growlithe's opinions, I hate what he represents, but I respect him. Because he did good work (admittedly, his stock-in-trade was cute animal stories and Newsbytes royally fucked up that for him, but whatever).
Hell, I'll even sweeten the deal; I throw in some story ideas. Seriously, that's the hard part. I'm doing most of the work for you. Oh, and you might want to jump on these, 'cause it's not like these are hidden.
1. Jan. 29th, Shout! Factory is releasing a new My Little Pony: Friedship is Magic DVD themed around Pinkie Pie. You can easily find a source on Equestria Daily to get the details. I'm suggesting this as a news piece, so if you want to go with this, you need to jump on it. Furthermore, I don't care if you don't like MLP:FiM; that's an excuse. If you want to work here, close. (Finally worked it in!)
2. This March, Archie Comics is beginning a crossover between their two Sonic the Hedgehog comic titles (Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Universe) and their Mega Man comic. I read about this in Previews, which is a dead tree magazine, so that's not nearly as much help; however, you have Internet access, so you might have heard of this thing called Google. It's helpful. Once again, liking Sonic the Hedgehog or not is beside the point; that's an excuse, and besides, it's an excuse I'm already using, so at least come up with something original. Time is not as big a factor here.
So, my challenge to you is to write and submit a story; you can do one of those two, both of them, something completely different, or nothing at all. However, if you choose that last option, you lose.
And let's be clear here, I'm being more than a bit manipulative; when I say I'm thinking win/win, I mean I win either way. You do it; I win. You don't do it; I win. You can lose.
Sorry about that Sonious, work was workier than expected, and I have been sleeping or working for money or working on my own projects and forgetting; sorry for the suspense for what is probably now almost an inevitable letdown, but have you read this yet?
I mean, apparently half the Internet already has, but anyway, I signed up (there's a link to the forum in the article which I think you might have to be member to actually get there) and have committed to draw one pony every day for 365 days, not because I'm good, but because I can't draw either (in fact, today's pony, pony 20, sucked balls) and, as the author points out, repetition.
I don't know, since you feel you can't draw either, a bit of friendly rivalry might help us both, and you're already a go getter with your project, so if you still need a year's resolution (or already need to re-resolve), well, there you go. At the very least now another group knows I'm doing the 365 ponies thing, so that's more pressure on me, including someone who has proven he will try and use damaging information, which brings me why I replied to desiring_change here instead of directly to you, Sonious. Now, I'm going to talk to him for a while, so if you want to quit reading, now's a good time.
Hi, desiring_change! At least, I'm pretty sure you're desiring_change; at the very least, you're someone who's so unpopular that your posts are semi-transparent automatically (Green Reaper has karma follow anonymous posters too, now, and since it turned out the anonymous poster who spent a year bugging everyone about Crusader Cat while accruing a quite astounding collection of 1 stars and not much else was actually desiring_change the entire time, I'm assuming your desiring_change). Anyway, hi person who is probably desiring_change!
You posting this reply is proof that God is real, and He loves me, but He does still test me. I'd like to offer you a proposition; not the same one I made to Sonious, but you should probably read the link too. At the very least, I may end up using the phrase "If you want to work here, close!" and unless you are just a big Alec Baldwin fan (which would be perfectly understandable) you may not get it.
Anyway, we had a talk recently, when it was revealed you were "annoying Crusader Cat obsessive," when I pointed you may get a bit more respect if you try and contribute on-topic. You're doing better; you're starting to get the on-topic part. I mean, the Nala thing was actually a bit off-topic, but that was Rakuen Growlithe, not you. You're just still not contributing. You're just attacking the same old target obsessively; not Crusader Cat, but, you know, me.
Well, you're annoying me (congratulations on that, by the way), but I think I'm going to take a page out of Stephen Covey's 7 habits playbook and go about this "win/win," how about that? See, you're not contributing, you're just attacking; I, on the other hand, contribute. Literally; right now, I am tied for second with Green Reaper on the Recent Contributions sidebar (and keep in mind I was unable to submit for an entire month during the time covered) for the most stories submitted behind Fred, not counting Mink, who technically doesn't submit to Flayrah.
Now, you think I'm a weak target because, let's face it, my opinions about furry are not very popular. That's true, and to top it off, I am a complete asshole in the comments. Case in point, this thread. But I contribute.
Do you know why Flayrah won Best Magazine at the Ursa Majors Awards last year, and will probably have no problem winning it again despite, well, a lot of our regular contributors kind of being assholes to our readers this year (me, Patch Packrat got into a big, ugly fight with Perri_Rhoades about a video, me, Fred actually posted a story with the phrase "sue me" in it, me, even Green Reaper pissed everyone off with that "vote for Obama!" story and me)? It's not because we have better content; it's because we have content. Period.
We are constantly updating; you may not like our stories, but at least we have them. Look at Furry News Network; when they had original content, it was just as good as ours, if not better. But they stopped creating original content; seriously, it's a good thing we keep updating, because now there are not one, but two sites that count on us to keep their main page refreshing. The only furry news site that can compete with us update wise is the aforementioned Mink's In-Fur-Nation, so Green Reaper made it a part of our site, too.
And, on one hand, any Flayrah contributor who regularly has double digits in the Recent Contributors sidebar is almost automatically singled out for attack; Fred and me probably single-handedly account for 75% of all 1-star folds, but Isaiah Jacobs is also frequently targeted, and while Higgs Raccoon does not regularly have to fear folding stories, he accounts for a good third of "why did you post this?" comments, and even Green Reaper gets a shit load of those, and thanks to the aforementioned story about voting, even he has had the dubious honor of being folded. As the linked article points out, people hate doers, because it makes them feel bad about not doing themselves.
But what you have to realize is that, even if you don't think a certain story is 100%, grade-A furry or even that good, it is still infinitely better to run the story than not run it; if that wasn't true, you'd be replying to this article on Furry News Network instead of here. David Wong knows this; he's an editor for a popular humor website that updates every day and is constantly asking for its readers to contribute. Because he knows if you only publish the 100%, grade-A material, you're going to update once a year, at best. And then nobody is going to be watching, because nobody expects the site that never updates to actually update.
On the other hand, people do respect contributors. Yeah, I'm an asshole in the comments, but I do the work. I submit content; I do the boring shit nobody wants to do like the comic Previews and the Newsbytes archives (on my own initiative, I might add). And occasionally, I write something someone actually likes. It happens. And people put up with me being an asshole because they know I contribute. And, yes, there are non-contributors who hate themselves and take it out on the top contributors, but if you look at the top three contributors right now on the Recent Contributors sidebar and the top three highest rated comments of the month sidebar, you'll see that these sidebars highlight the exact same people.
I said this was a win/win proposition, but I've already won. You think people read the comments after a year? I've read the archives, and a quadruple amputee could count the number of comments I read on his fingers! You'll never get famous in the comments; you'll never get noticed in the comments; you'll never get respect in the comments; you'll never win in the comments.
Now, just in case you haven't fucking figured it out, all I'm proposing is that you write a story and submit it. Simple. Easy. Anyone can do it. And I guarantee you, Green Reaper will run it. He may edit the shit out of it, and I guess if you write an opinion piece explaining Crusader Cat needs to die screaming, well, you voided the warrantee.
We don't have to be enemies; I mean, you can still hate me and all, that's okay, but I said before, what you really want is respect. From anybody. And that's all I'm offering. A chance to earn my respect. I hate Rakuen Growlithe's opinions, I hate what he represents, but I respect him. Because he did good work (admittedly, his stock-in-trade was cute animal stories and Newsbytes royally fucked up that for him, but whatever).
Hell, I'll even sweeten the deal; I throw in some story ideas. Seriously, that's the hard part. I'm doing most of the work for you. Oh, and you might want to jump on these, 'cause it's not like these are hidden.
1. Jan. 29th, Shout! Factory is releasing a new My Little Pony: Friedship is Magic DVD themed around Pinkie Pie. You can easily find a source on Equestria Daily to get the details. I'm suggesting this as a news piece, so if you want to go with this, you need to jump on it. Furthermore, I don't care if you don't like MLP:FiM; that's an excuse. If you want to work here, close. (Finally worked it in!)
2. This March, Archie Comics is beginning a crossover between their two Sonic the Hedgehog comic titles (Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Universe) and their Mega Man comic. I read about this in Previews, which is a dead tree magazine, so that's not nearly as much help; however, you have Internet access, so you might have heard of this thing called Google. It's helpful. Once again, liking Sonic the Hedgehog or not is beside the point; that's an excuse, and besides, it's an excuse I'm already using, so at least come up with something original. Time is not as big a factor here.
So, my challenge to you is to write and submit a story; you can do one of those two, both of them, something completely different, or nothing at all. However, if you choose that last option, you lose.
And let's be clear here, I'm being more than a bit manipulative; when I say I'm thinking win/win, I mean I win either way. You do it; I win. You don't do it; I win. You can lose.
Balls in your court.