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# The challenges are what people make them. People are imaginative enough to make even the worst idea work.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 2:56, archived)
# well obviously
but it's always fun to complain about the compo being rubbish.
It wouldn't be new compo day without a load of complaining.
Although this one is particularly bad.....
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 2:57, archived)
# Yeah, but it's a little surprising that this challenge got picked given the rather less-than-positive response when it was suggested;
www.b3ta.com/questions/imagechallenge/post573769
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 2:58, archived)
# Less surprising if you look at the site that inspired it though.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:00, archived)
# Here.
gizmodo.com/383942/desktop-clutter-art-a-go+go
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:02, archived)
# Ooh, I'll have to steal some of those and then create inferior reproductions for the compo.
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:04, archived)
# That's the spirit
(Hal Baffe, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:09, archived)
# More surprising when you see how old that site is
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:04, archived)
# It was only last year.
I know the internet has a fast turnover of ideas, but hell it's hardly ancient.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:06, archived)
# 21 months ago!
Some of us weren't even born then!
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:09, archived)
# and
it was only suggested 4 days ago. Unlikely it had time to get MORE votes than ANY other suggestion. EVAH
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:02, archived)
# What on earth makes you think this is a democracy?
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:03, archived)
# Fraser claiming that people had voted for it
made me think there was a pretence thereto
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:06, archived)
# He just said that people had voted for it. Not that it had got the most votes.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:08, archived)
# squirming apologist!
I bet you'd find something good to say about Hitler if he was setting the image challenge.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:12, archived)
# He did have rather good hair.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:22, archived)
# well, ok
but apart from that
and the trains
and the great buildings
and the resonant iconography
mabe that would make a good challenge: what would hitler do with potatoshop if he was alive today?
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:28, archived)
# I dunno but personally I'd prefer to see a challenge that was open ended and potentially humourous
rather than a technical exercise in folder manipulation
(Hal Baffe, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:04, archived)
# Well yeah. That is the ideal.
Sometimes you just have to think REALLY hard to find an open end.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 3:09, archived)