Yes, you're right about the guy actually has a social life (also, he does usually post this month because that's something he genuinely cares about), but it's just more fun to blame Rakuen. It is just a bit frustrating to lose to a basically dead website run by a guy I don't like in a category all-but-created for us, but, no, I'm not calling for a strategic meeting because it's not that important. But I'm going to keep making bad jokes, you can't stop me there.
But, also posting when people are looking is an awareness thing. It's "sweeps week" or "Oscar season"; you save the good stuff for when it matters, then you fall off when it doesn't. You put out Cocaine Bear in March, you take Killers of the Flower Moon to film festivals in the fall and release it to theaters in November. Or, see why December release Puss in Boots 2 both won the Ursa and was the DreamWorks Oscar nomination, despite April release The Bad Guys arguably being their better movie last year. Like, this isn't even me knocking Patch; it's not a conspiracy, I'm not accusing him of underhanded tactics. If it matters to him, and it kind of seems to do, he's doing what he needs to do (only kind of though, because, why don't he do it all year long if it really matters?). I'm just saying, a large social circle to remind of your (supposed to be updated frequently) "magazine" helps, but it also helps to, when people are reminded it exists, and reminded to check up on it again, to go and see it has updates. If you can only be bothered to update the thing a few times a year, when you update it becomes important.
Since we update much more frequently, our thing is much more what we update. But, once again, I'm not saying we should, I don't know what, actually, run big spectaculars around nomination/final voting times (wouldn't even know what that would look like) or even hold off on "Rakuen says something kind of ... Rakuen" articles until voting is over, because I don't think any of us want to, well, do that. Like, we care, but also us and "strategy" (and I must repeat, not in any means either "bad" or even "unusual" strategy), well, it's not really our style. A little light complaining in the comments without actually doing anything about it seems appropriate enough action, so that's what I'm doing.
Yes, you're right about the guy actually has a social life (also, he does usually post this month because that's something he genuinely cares about), but it's just more fun to blame Rakuen. It is just a bit frustrating to lose to a basically dead website run by a guy I don't like in a category all-but-created for us, but, no, I'm not calling for a strategic meeting because it's not that important. But I'm going to keep making bad jokes, you can't stop me there.
But, also posting when people are looking is an awareness thing. It's "sweeps week" or "Oscar season"; you save the good stuff for when it matters, then you fall off when it doesn't. You put out Cocaine Bear in March, you take Killers of the Flower Moon to film festivals in the fall and release it to theaters in November. Or, see why December release Puss in Boots 2 both won the Ursa and was the DreamWorks Oscar nomination, despite April release The Bad Guys arguably being their better movie last year. Like, this isn't even me knocking Patch; it's not a conspiracy, I'm not accusing him of underhanded tactics. If it matters to him, and it kind of seems to do, he's doing what he needs to do (only kind of though, because, why don't he do it all year long if it really matters?). I'm just saying, a large social circle to remind of your (supposed to be updated frequently) "magazine" helps, but it also helps to, when people are reminded it exists, and reminded to check up on it again, to go and see it has updates. If you can only be bothered to update the thing a few times a year, when you update it becomes important.
Since we update much more frequently, our thing is much more what we update. But, once again, I'm not saying we should, I don't know what, actually, run big spectaculars around nomination/final voting times (wouldn't even know what that would look like) or even hold off on "Rakuen says something kind of ... Rakuen" articles until voting is over, because I don't think any of us want to, well, do that. Like, we care, but also us and "strategy" (and I must repeat, not in any means either "bad" or even "unusual" strategy), well, it's not really our style. A little light complaining in the comments without actually doing anything about it seems appropriate enough action, so that's what I'm doing.