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I think I want to throw another comment or two as someone who used to be insanely obsessed with user contests what... 8-9 years ago? Time sure flies.

Back in the day these contests were the shit, it was like a drug to many here, myself included, User of the Year was obviously the biggest one, having by far the most active group of voters. I know it's been very cool to hate on it for the past many years, but I'll go ahead and say I always found it to be a good contest with some great formats in between, GP in particular. It also comes with the added bonus of many users becomming more active, which sure is gameplaying, but nevertheless a good thing imo. I have a bunch of fond memories related to UotY.

That said, the past bunch of years hasn't been quite as fun. I'm not sure exactly when the decline happened, or at least not when the decline became too much. I want to say after Ed Bellis stopped it, but Lefty was a great host and the year Chris hosted we had the greatest votals ever. I think the past 3 or 4 years were too bad. Cliques (or groups of close friends because some people hate being called a clique) has always been a thing, but in recent years the voterbase has mostly only consisted of one or two cliques and I think that's where it slowly stopped being fun. As someone previously quite active in b8chat and discord, having a board contest that has less and less to do with the board felt a bit weird imo. This combined with less people caring and pretty much everyone at this point being on the "uoty sucks" train, probably made it actually really suck the past few years, at least to some extend.

UotY became more of a drag than anything, something we did because we always had. Predicting while watching Naruto became a drag as well honestly. I did that for six years straight, beginning in 2012. The first two years were fun, others were making predictions too, there was a general interest. The third year was a bit less fun, so in 2015 I didn't plan to do it, but no one else made predictions either, so a bunch of people started asking for it again, being the most memorable prediction series I suppose. Learning that people actually enjoyed them, I brought it back again and continued to do that every year, making as much fun of it as possible. And it was fun! Just not all the time. I usually kicked a lot of energy into it at first, but to do it consistantly over the course of the contest was not something I had time to do really, meaning half the write-ups ended up being ass. That coupled with how some users took them personal meant that it was more often a duty than a fun project, and then you know it's time to stop, right?

Same with UotY, it has run its course. Doesn't mean it couldn't ever become a thing again, though I do believe it's unlikely at this point seeing how active the board is. Perhaps if we still got contests at the rate we used to. I just think it's a shame it probably ran for longer than it should've, since as much as many users probably wouldn't admit to it, they had fun doing this and seeing how popular they are online lol.

My last of many UotY rambles. Ctes out!
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