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"Oh no!"
Yes ladies & gentlemen, I'll soon be taking over the GTP Cool Wall. BKGlover thinks he ruined it for some reason. I figure there's really not much he could have done to make it better. But, since there seems to be a nasty thought current that I'll ruin it as part of my "manliness crusade", I've created this thread to provide, in a Q&A format (even though no one's asked me any questions), any relevant information I can think of regarding the Cool Wall's new ownership. Starting with the one that seems to be on everyone's minds over in the Premium forum.
"I'm a brony, and I'm afraid you're going to try and lock us out somehow. What of it?"
No. The GTP Cool Wall is, strictly speaking, not going to be under the Partisans umbrella that doesn't exist yet. You can still nominate cars regardless of your TV fanbase participation. I'm not sure if poll owners can see who voted how in a private poll, but if they can, I won't use the information against you.
"Speaking of private polls, are the voting lists going to become public?"
No. I don't think it would be productive or useful.
"I nominated a car back when BKGlover was running the Cool Wall. Is it still in the pipeline?"
Yes. All previously nominated cars will go to polling as expected.
"Will there be any changes to the nomination process?"
No. Not yet, anyway. I may eventually narrow the range of allowable car types, but the Wall already differs from the Top Gear formula by allowing cars no longer in production to be polled, so then again, I may continue allowing race cars and so forth.
"Don't you tend to start things and not finish them?"
Unfortunately, yes. But there are plenty of other people lining up to take it, so if I find myself unable or unwilling to continue maintaining the Wall, one of them can have it.
"But I thought you got banned a while ago and might still be on some kind of last chance status! What happens if you get banned again? Or, what if real life gets in the way?"
Well then good luck I guess.
Seriously, though, I'll soon be making arrangements to have a backup curator in place just in case something happens. Like I said, it's not like there'd be any difficulty finding a replacement.
"So when are you going to start proving all this?"
Assuming Jordan sends back his 10-4, tomorrow and every other day thereafter (unless the mods think that's too spammy). The one change I'm making to the previous structure is to speed it up - two polls at a time makes for a very slow-moving system.
"Can you tell me the voting formula? Pretty please?"
BKGlover put it in the results thread along with a spreadsheet containing the Cool Wall results.
"Any other changes or ideas in the pipeline?"
At this point, I'm not really sure. I'm kicking around the idea of getting rid of "Meh" and raising the upper limit of "Uncool", since I think, to some degree, something boring or anonymous enough to be "meh" is uncool anyway. But I think it'll be better just to get things stable before I start making changes like that.
I could also whip up a pic-board graphic for flavor, but with nine sections (or eight, if the above-mentioned change takes place), it'd be wide and might take a while to load.
Any other questions, comments, or suggestions?
Yes ladies & gentlemen, I'll soon be taking over the GTP Cool Wall. BKGlover thinks he ruined it for some reason. I figure there's really not much he could have done to make it better. But, since there seems to be a nasty thought current that I'll ruin it as part of my "manliness crusade", I've created this thread to provide, in a Q&A format (even though no one's asked me any questions), any relevant information I can think of regarding the Cool Wall's new ownership. Starting with the one that seems to be on everyone's minds over in the Premium forum.
"I'm a brony, and I'm afraid you're going to try and lock us out somehow. What of it?"
No. The GTP Cool Wall is, strictly speaking, not going to be under the Partisans umbrella that doesn't exist yet. You can still nominate cars regardless of your TV fanbase participation. I'm not sure if poll owners can see who voted how in a private poll, but if they can, I won't use the information against you.
"Speaking of private polls, are the voting lists going to become public?"
No. I don't think it would be productive or useful.
"I nominated a car back when BKGlover was running the Cool Wall. Is it still in the pipeline?"
Yes. All previously nominated cars will go to polling as expected.
"Will there be any changes to the nomination process?"
No. Not yet, anyway. I may eventually narrow the range of allowable car types, but the Wall already differs from the Top Gear formula by allowing cars no longer in production to be polled, so then again, I may continue allowing race cars and so forth.
"Don't you tend to start things and not finish them?"
Unfortunately, yes. But there are plenty of other people lining up to take it, so if I find myself unable or unwilling to continue maintaining the Wall, one of them can have it.
"But I thought you got banned a while ago and might still be on some kind of last chance status! What happens if you get banned again? Or, what if real life gets in the way?"
Well then good luck I guess.
Seriously, though, I'll soon be making arrangements to have a backup curator in place just in case something happens. Like I said, it's not like there'd be any difficulty finding a replacement.
"So when are you going to start proving all this?"
Assuming Jordan sends back his 10-4, tomorrow and every other day thereafter (unless the mods think that's too spammy). The one change I'm making to the previous structure is to speed it up - two polls at a time makes for a very slow-moving system.
"Can you tell me the voting formula? Pretty please?"
BKGlover put it in the results thread along with a spreadsheet containing the Cool Wall results.
"Any other changes or ideas in the pipeline?"
At this point, I'm not really sure. I'm kicking around the idea of getting rid of "Meh" and raising the upper limit of "Uncool", since I think, to some degree, something boring or anonymous enough to be "meh" is uncool anyway. But I think it'll be better just to get things stable before I start making changes like that.
I could also whip up a pic-board graphic for flavor, but with nine sections (or eight, if the above-mentioned change takes place), it'd be wide and might take a while to load.
Any other questions, comments, or suggestions?
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