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If I have a problem on one of my websites, I wouldn't want someone who knew nothing about it to make useless suggestions. I respect the developers of this site too much to stick my nose where it doesn't belong, and myself too much to make such a fool of myself.

If I notice a problem but don't know why the problem exists, I believe that stating that there is a problem is enough. You are free to do as you like. It's just not my way to be overly pushy or presumptuous.

Yes. I'm not in the habit of presuming that I have the right answers to problems on sites I don't administrate.



IMO, this is part of the problem in SF...hundreds upon hundreds of useless suggestions from people who have never built a website. I have quite a few websites, but I don't assume that just because of this, I know what the admins here should do.

In the very few cases I do make suggestions, they're concerning things that are easy to figure out from the user end. I'm not in Gaia's business meetings, and I am not privy to the daily work of the developers, so those are things I consider "not my business".

Too many people around here try to make things their business that aren't, and it leads to a lot of needlessly hurt feelings. I would rather refrain from the sniping and pointless arguing that goes on about things users know nothing about.

Well, aside of a lack of will to bore non webmasters with such tedium, in principle I do not give free ideas to businesses that are not paying me or providing some other type of compensation. It's not my website. I'm not being paid to teach people how to run a website. If they've been hired, and don't know how to host online games by now, then something more is wrong than my not giving suggestions.

For all those who are giving game and Flash settings tips, thank you for them. Even though I personally have way too much trouble doing horizontal DDR even with the easiest songs this year, it can make the difference for people who just find it mildly frustrating.

I would much rather see more real suggestions than dismissive responses. smile

The reason I think such responses are silly is because by the time someone has actually been disabled, or hell, lived past the age of 5, they're aware that not everything in life is supposed to be easy.

So really, people should keep such responses to themselves.

Yeah, we know we don't get everything we want in life...but the real lesson you're teaching us is that not everyone we'll encounter in life has the gutts to step up and do or say something about things in life that they consider unfair, and some weak willed people don't want other people to have the gutts either.

I contend that, judging by facts that can actually be observed, such as users online, the item count and prices, that the majority of users are not participating in this event, and the few who are, not very enthusiastically.

The whys may be speculation, but an educated guess, in my opinion, is due to the appeal of this event being to the minority.

I doubt that we'll get admin confirmation on this, but I also doubt that if we did, they'd say anything contrary to what is already easily observed.

So if your answer to my issue is "majority rules" then you aren't watching the data.

Fair enough, but in this case, the "many" aren't participating in the event because it only caters to a limited few users who both enjoy and are able to play horizontal DDR.

...and even in the case of those who are participating, the majority appear (from forum posts on both sides of the issue) to be disappointed in both the performance and the level of difficulty for *normal* users.

The event was supposed to be a community event, which implies that everyone should have a fair shot at participating, even if they don't win.



The responses cited in the first post would be inflammatory, and serve no purpose but to bring up irrelevant issues for the sake of picking on people. I didn't and do not intend to report anyone for disagreeing/debating. The only ones whose cases I jumped were people who were being disproportionately stupid.



I don't find recognizing numeric patterns or cracking many codes, or figuring out the alphabets of many languages without a key that difficult.

What's your point?

...that it's okay to make community events that cater only to people with exceptional skills?

If you do, then I hope the next community event is entirely in Hebrew. It's so easy that kids do it all the time. smile



Very few of the items are under 1k. As it stands, from the item counts and prices, this is a low participation event.



I'm not in the habit of making assumptions about a website I'm not administrating. I prefer to stick to the facts, which are that this event is inaccessible to a good chunk of the user base, and is also too difficult for the majority of users to be coined as a "community event".

I cannot observe "Gaia's shoes". I can observe user response, item counts, prices, and feedback from users.

I think that would be very cute...even better if it can layer over other skins like the new Twilight sparkling skin. smile

I'm not talking about accommodating "every single situation". I'm talking about alternatives to horizontal DDR. My original post was that making it so that the only way to get the items was the one game that shuts out so many users, was unfair.

I can take it on the chin that they apparently don't care. It's just that if they don't care, they shouldn't expect me or any of the other users who've been disappointed by this event, to care much either.

Am I?

Have I reported everyone who's disagreed with me in this thread?