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Mako18

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Post: 8237692_1 created on Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:13:57 +0000
Posted: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:13:57 +0000

The "Fix the Avatar Spotlight" Petition

Well, as we're sure many of you have noticed, the Avatar Spotlight has a bunch of issues.

It hasn't changed in a long time because it seems to be more or less ignored by the admins.

The choice of avatars looks half-fast and appears to excludes everyone outside the Avatar Talk forum.

The part we as users played at some point in picking the Avatar Spotlight (at least we think we had some control) is completely gone now.

We think that the Avatar Spotlight should become a more prevalent focus of Gaia Online. It'd be nice to see a new set of Avatar Spotlight winners weekly instead of quarterly, and we'd like to see Gaian users voice their opinion on who gets the Avatar Spotlight Recognition.

Do you agree with us?
If you do, we could use your support in making this a noticed Petition. Sign up with us and we'll let all of your voices be heard!

The Official Banner:
This banner changes constantly w/ the opening and closing of our regular Avatar Contest. This banner has the winner and other contestants from the very first contest!
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As part of our protesting the slowness of the current Avatar Spotlight, we are holding our own unofficial Avatar Spotlight Contest. We will hold a weekly contest where the winner gets to be proudly displayed here on this post and on the official banner for our Petition for 1 week. Then we will hold another contest and a new avatar spotlight will be chosen. We hope you will join our cause and participate in the contest. 3nodding
(The entire above paragraph is a link to the contest thread)

arrow The old thread we had had our accounts making the posts for the thread. We both need access to things like the signature list and other things so I am making this new thread w/ only one post from each of us, followed by several posts from our mule. Sorry for the repeat thread.

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Post: 8237692_2 created on Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:20:36 +0000
Posted: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:20:36 +0000

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Post: 8237692_3 created on Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:26:49 +0000
Posted: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 22:26:49 +0000

Our Issues/Solutions

The Time Between Changes in the Avatar Spotlight
We think that the admins need to set some time specifically to updating the Avatar Spotlight. (just like they do for any other section Gaia) A definite semi-weekly or monthly change would be preferred. They can get the monthly donation items out on time, why not the Avatar Spotlight?

The Appearance of a Half-Fast Choosing of Avatars
To me, it looks like the admin(s) just pick a random thread and point their finger at the first fully clothed avatar and choose that one. We see a recuring theme in a lot of the Avatar Spotlights. We see a lot of Devil Tails, there needs to be more variety in the final choices. Perhaps different categories for the Avatar Spotlight?

The Power that Users used to have in this matter is gone
At the beginning, when there were very few members, the admins picked the avatar by hand. As more members joined up, they lost track of being able to fairly pick one from the thousands to look through, so they added a 'Voting System' that us users got to use to help influence the admin's decision the choices for the Avatar Spotlight. How much influence this had on the admin's choice is unknown, but shortly after it's introduction, the 'Voting System' was removed. Perhaps there were way too many bugs that they didn't want to deal with, or maybe there were too many other things of a higher priority that needed to be taken care of before that worked. We'll never know. We would like to see an upgraded version of this 'Voting System' so that us users can have at least some say in who gets to be in the Avatar Spotlight.

The Avatar Arena?
Maybe the Avatar Spotlight could be chosen monthly by a system I've brainstormed known as "The Avatar Arena." It would be similar in design and operation to the current Art Arena. You can either get nominated or pay an entry fee to get into the contest. From there, just like the Art Arena, you get voted on by countless Gaians. There are a couple kinks in this idea, but I'm sure if the admins thought it a good idea, they could fix those kinda things.