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[Sheik]

Yes, but how does that make you FEEL? There's a psychological reason behind everything~

No, in fact if you haven't noticed, they cause more problems than they are really worth if you've been paying attention.

I honestly don't see a problem with this idea, other than the potential crybabies that'd cut up, rip and rave over their entry for SotW getting carried over to this contest due to majority rule of it being a "joke" shot.

I bet I'll see some counters now, like "But you never know..." or some trolls like "I'll do that right now." Watch them prove my point, and I'll just laugh it off, have my cake, and eat it too .

Yeah I wonder just what's your psychological reasons behind getting all worked up over this. If a screenshot that does not jive with the norm the other screenshots share really breaks your world apart like this it should probably make you thinking.

The point of the screenshots that aren't congruent with the norm (which are called joke shots for reasons beyond me) is that they are ment to be posted along screens that are following that norm. It's less "haha I made a screen that's ment to destroy this site, your soul and the universe" but rather something like "oh look, this is different, didn't see that coming, huh?". If you throw all of them together in a contest designed especially for them they loose their point. I would enter my best, most "serious" screens in the joke contest if I wanted to make the "joke" point, probably.

Angeal, the idea per se is not that bad. It's just beyond the point, in my honest opinion. You could make it as a special event probably and it would be nice to see it happen occosianally but people that take their "joke" shots serious would not be able to make their point if they weren't able to enter their creations among the more traditional entries.

[Koh]

Yeah I wonder just what's your psychological reasons behind getting all worked up over this. If a screenshot that does not jive with the norm the other screenshots share really breaks your world apart like this it should probably make you thinking.

I'm not really getting worked up rather than explaining a different viewpoint with examples. As for the reason, well we could ask the same question "What's the reason?" for those submitting "joke" entries in the first place . If they know people get worked up all over it, why do it anyway? Just to cause problems? I don't see the logic behind it, other than someone saying "Just to be different," which is fine if you were just a number .

[Sheik]

It is interesting.

One point of "joke" shots is not being typical shots and probably an interest in what people will think about it. People tend to show their "true colours" if surprised. So if you know how somebody reacts on your "joke" shot (which they didn't see coming if you've done your thing well) you can make implications on what kind of attitude this person has towards screenshots. One of those is "elitist" which in returns has a whole bunch of implications itself.


That said, this whole discussion is actually beyond the point, too, and that's why I'll bow out of it now. Either you get it or you don't and both is perfectly fine.

Edit: By the way. "How does that make you feel" is by no means embracing what psychology actually is. It is merely one question psychology asks and definately an important one but psychology can exist jolly good without that question all together. That line has became famous around the 60s when humanistic psychology was mainstream psycholgoy. Before it was for over a centuary of academic psychology of little to no concern and today it does not play the role it used to back in the day, either.

Edited by Yoshimi, 15 January 2012 - 01:12 PM.