I was looking at that thread about Bacon's AMA, and I saw something that I felt deserved its own thread. Somebody decided to drop this on him:
Can you please for the love of God, stop with the never ending character battles? Or at least put them on a separate part of the site. There is nothing worse than seeing them take over the PotD for months on end. They are awful and boring.
And if the post-contest polls are any indication, there are actually a lot of other people who feel this way.
My question is this: WHY? I get that not everyone is going to dig the contests as much as we do. And I definitely understand that some people won't find brackets fun to make. But why would they actively hate the contests? If they're not interested in them, then the contests should do absolutely nothing to bother them. All they do is replace the "Got (system)?" and "Do you brush your teeth every morning?" polls - who gives a damn about that?
Normally, I wouldn't care about these party poopers, but Bacon's made it increasingly clear that it's not always easy getting prizes for the contests. Over the past few years, CBS Interactive has been eager to support the GameSpot contests, but ours... not so much. And if people keep posting stuff like the comment above, and voting for the "KILL IT WITH FIRE" option in every post-contest poll, then it's just going to get harder and harder for our CBs to be greenlighted.
So, to all of you who vote for each contest to be the "last one ever," and rant about how much our contests suck... seriously, chill out and step down. Nobody likes a buzzkill.
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