Thelsim @ thelsim @sh.itjust.works

Scatterbrained and friendly optimist. Always happy to give my (unasked for)

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A slipknot works great! It’s done in a second and easily undone as well.

You posted this image three times in a row with different titles.
I removed the other two and will leave this one in.

Please don’t do this again, it’s considered spam.

In Dutch it’s called a trouwring, which as a verb literally translates to wedding ring, but as a noun also to loyalty ring.
Which I find rather sweet.

That could be an alternative, but it would make the whole process a lot more involved.

Maybe a new post could be made after the seven days are over with all the entries added as replies for people to vote on? Then after 24 hours a winner can be declared. It would at least give everyone an equal chance as far as exposure to the Lemmy algorithm goes and everyone can submit their entry at their own speed.

1. Open submission post
2. Let participants add their entries to the post as replies
3. Close submission post after 7 days
4. Create voting post with all entries as replies.
5. Wait 24 hours
6. Tally upvotes and other points to declare winner.

That would basically be an instant disqualifier, I don't want to kick people out of the challenge altogether.

But I realize this -1 doesn't work that well either when a lot of people post anyway. Maybe the whole upvote system just doesn't work that well.

:D
I was wondering where those came from, well it adds to the image so I'm not complaining :)

I can see why you're no fan of the 24h thing. My reasoning was that the first 24 hours always gets most of the views, and a lot of people vote on whatever image is already posted and don't check back again afterwards.
The idea was to level the playing field a little for those who need a bit more time to post, whether it's because they're not free or because they might be living in a different time zone.

Anyway, like I wrote in my previous challenge, it's an experiment. If you and others think it works better without the 24h rule, then of course we can always change things back to how they were.

That's strange, I've added you in. The script I use should have shown you properly but for some reason you got filtered out.

I think it's the regular expression that searches for an image, maybe it's something in the alt-text you used that didn't flag it properly? I'll keep an eye out for it with next week's score.

Sorry for the mistake!

Ok, I'll make one instead then.

Enjoy your vacation! :)

I hosted the last one as well. I'm happy to pass the next challenge on to @Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world considering they ended up 2nd and the other two already hosted a challenge more recently.

That's really weird..

I still see it pinned on fedia.io as well. Must be a federation issue?

Let me know if you see this happen again with the next challenge and I'll hit that sticky button a couple of times. Other than that, there's not much else I can do.

Hmm.. I guess we can give that a try. Personally I've never had any problems with multiple stickies, but I can imagine that different people on different instances with different apps might get different results.

I'll move it to the side bar. We still reference it in every challenge post as well, so it should remain easy to find.

Oh thanks for letting me know!

I re-stickied the post, does it show properly now?

I don’t know about over there, but here they’ve started selling them with paper straws. Making it even more impossible to puncture that stupid little hole while ruining the straw in the process.

And of course it’s the only thing my daughter wants to drink. I’ve had to resort to using a nail file to open those things.

I love the aspect ratio, like a children’s story time book.

Thanks :)

It's a bit strange there's so few votes this time around though, usually it's a bit more active. I wish there was some way to let this post get the attention it needs while still preventing this from becoming a race to submit as quickly as possible to get the most votes.

Maybe a rethinking of the scoring is in order.

Oh we're doing these again? Fun!

Stylish as ever :)

Here's yours according to Midjourney:

In my head the stories would be about a 70/30 division of mostly other heroes trying to save the day and the Procastinator dealing with some mundane problem or obsession, knowing that he'll probably need to help but he still has plenty of time.
The story would escalate with the heroes fighting the big bad guy of the day. While the Procastinator is aware that he really should be stepping in soon, but postponing it to deal with whatever is in front of him at that moment. Figuring he still has time, as long as he really rushes later on.
The climax will end with the heroes almost defeated and the Procastinator swearing and running to do the thing he needs to do. He'll end up getting there just in time (usually), to do some really simple thing that will -in an almost Rube Goldbergesque manner- ruin the bad guy's plans, and save the day.
The heroes will be pissed off, because of course the Procastinator could have solved this hours ago if he just managed to get off his ass a bit sooner. Maybe Mr. Awesome Beam's cape will be shredded, or the Bucktooth Wombat's WomTruck will be completely smashed because of his late appearance. And they'll act like a bunch of thankless assholes, as usual.
The Procrastinator will take their behavior as an excuse so he won't have to learn anything about time management and the story will repeat next week/issue.

Fair enough :)