Approved: Impersonate Lerroux Event

[Nihilego]

ok lovers here's what's going down

to do:

-thread design (probably simple and to the point like the lerroux character) done!
-title (something snappy and sarcastic maybe? idrk) done!
-rules + guidelines done!
-get access to the lerroux account (i've pm'd audy about this and we'll see if he can do it. if we can i don't know who will be able to log into it though.) done!
-judging criteria
-timings (it'll be a busy-ish couple of weeks so give me a little while to get back to you on this)
-emblems
-other things i've missed

boom baby. imo the first thing we should be looking at is what the content we're after is and stuff. not entirely sure how this is gonna work just yet so any ideas are really welcome!

Impersonate Lerroux!

Hosted by Razor Leaf
and ♪Twiggy♪.

A Friendly Reminder
Keep the submissions within the PokéCommunity rules and in good taste. We reserve the right to delete any inappropriate submissions upon discovery, and all such instances will be reported to staff.

The most important thing:
Don't offend your fellow members!

Welcome to the Impersonate Lerroux contest! In this event, all you have to do is what it says in the title - impersonate everyone's favourite online dictator. But how exactly should you go about this? Well, like Lerroux would, you're going to be coming up with some absolutely ridiculous ideas for the community such as giving all members mod powers or permanently banning upon breaking the rules for the first time, for instance. Anything which is absurd and outrageous. However that's not the end of it! Like any good dictator should, you need to attempt to justify your ridiculous idea with thorough logic and persuasive skill. The more outrageous the idea and the better the persuasion, the higher you score. If you don't understand, an example (along with many others) can be found here and in its enclosing forum.

For those of you who are newer or didn't catch the Lerroux antics, here's a little bit about who he was and why he was so important! It's a tradition on PokéCommunity to, every year, have an April Fool's joke. For the 2012 one, the staff worked together to set up a fake account posing as a new site admin - Lerroux - who was to take over the forum, doing things his way and only his way. We worked for weeks setting up the fake staff section, linked earlier in this post, which was full of his horrible 'ideas' as well as other fabricated staff discussions. Towards the end of the month, we revealed this forum, and chaos ensued with people believing that the Lerroux account was truly taking over the forum. While it was a rather extreme joke, in the end the reception was fairly warm so we decided to bring him back for this event!

To enter, you only need to do two things. One, you post your submissions in this thread. And two, you send a copy of your submission to either Razor Leaf or ♪Twiggy♪ via Private Message. While you are allowed to edit your submission after posting it, the original copy will be used to ensure that you haven't totally changed your idea - the one thing which is not allowed to be edited. You may enter up to two submissions, however, although you will only be judged for the better of the two. You need only post in this thread saying that you wish to enter to be signed up, and you can sign up then post your submission at a later date if it isn't ready yet.

Have fun destroying PokéCommunity!

Please note that ideas you submit will not be considered by staff for implementation; this is only for fun.

Rules

• All PokéCommunity rules apply.
• As noted above, be considerate. If you think your post might offend one person or a group of people then PM a host or simply don't say it.
• Two submissions at most only. If you try to enter more, all submissions after the second one will be omitted and you will not be judged for them even if they are better than the first two.
• Do not reply to others' submissions. All you do in this thread is sign up and post your own one.

Dates

The event will run for the entirety of the Get-Together, with a couple of days at the end for judging your entries. So take as long as you need to in order to make sure that your entry is as polished as possible!

Awards

Emblems will be given for 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place and for participation. You'll see them appear here soon!

Entrants

There are no entrants at the time of writing.

 

[Nihilego]

[for my wonderful co-host and my own memory NO NICA I AM NOT TALKING TO MYSELF]

so i've had an idea about how this could possibly work. when lerroux was around, he made some pretty damn insane suggestions yet backed them up with almost reasonable arguments - for example, here. in fact the whole of the 'new staff lounge' is full of them. so my idea was to basically do that - members submit ridiculous ideas (which, for the record, won't be considered by staff) and attempt to back them up with logical arguments. the best entries will have truly outrageous ideas but be backed up with arguments that make them sound plausible. there would have to be some sort of restrictions, such as no direct member bashing (jokingly or not), but if we explained the idea well i feel like it could be pulled off with some success.

thoughts?

 

[Legendary Silke]

[for my wonderful co-host and my own memory NO NICA I AM NOT TALKING TO MYSELF]

so i've had an idea about how this could possibly work. when lerroux was around, he made some pretty damn insane suggestions yet backed them up with almost reasonable arguments - for example, here. in fact the whole of the 'new staff lounge' is full of them. so my idea was to basically do that - members submit ridiculous ideas (which, for the record, won't be considered by staff) and attempt to back them up with logical arguments. the best entries will have truly outrageous ideas but be backed up with arguments that make them sound plausible. there would have to be some sort of restrictions, such as no direct member bashing (jokingly or not), but if we explained the idea well i feel like it could be pulled off with some success.

thoughts?

Oh, I see. The premise seems to be simple enough, so I guess the only real thing that we have to do is to watch members so that they don't break the rules or something, right?

We need access to that one account for... posting the OP?

 

[Nihilego]

yeah i'd like to have the account just for the sake of having a quirk. it'd be cool for it to be like "i am lerroux and you can impersonate me" rather than "i am razor leaf and you lot are impersonating lerroux", kinda like a guest appearance thing.

Oh, I see. The premise seems to be simple enough, so I guess the only real thing that we have to do is to watch members so that they don't break the rules or something, right?

yeah we'd have to have some fairly tight guidelines in place. the last thing we want is people, for example, targeting members or groups of members directly and offending someone. i think that it'd mostly be taken well but we want to cover ourselves i guess. any specific ideas for rules and stuff?

 

[Legendary Silke]

yeah i'd like to have the account just for the sake of having a quirk. it'd be cool for it to be like "i am lerroux and you can impersonate me" rather than "i am razor leaf and you lot are impersonating lerroux", kinda like a guest appearance thing.



yeah we'd have to have some fairly tight guidelines in place. the last thing we want is people, for example, targeting members or groups of members directly and offending someone. i think that it'd mostly be taken well but we want to cover ourselves i guess. any specific ideas for rules and stuff?

The rules are going to be boilerplate, so I think the only special thing we should do is to make it obvious that circumvention of the rules will not be tolerated.

 

[Nihilego]

s'pose so. i'll give it a think and see what i come up with. but for now we'll move on from the rules. do you think you could work your magic css on the thread? or just use normal text?

 

[Legendary Silke]

Impersonate Lerroux!

Description to be inserted, along with details.

A Friendly Reminder
Keep the submissions within the PokéCommunity rules and in good taste. We reserve the right to delete any inappropriate submissions upon discovery, and all such instances will be reported to staff.

The most important thing:
Don't offend your fellow members!

Section B

Text here

Section C

Text here

Hmm, Razor Leaf, I think you'll come up with the text, while I whittle away at the layout.

 

[Nihilego]

lookin' good. i'll get on the text for that. i'm... also colourblind as a dog so please tell me - what colour is the background for the "impersonate lerroux" header? if it's not already, could it be the same colour which lerroux used for april fools (which i believe was the same as rukario's)?

edit: apparently, the colour is #663399.

 

[Legendary Silke]

lookin' good. i'll get on the text for that. i'm... also colourblind as a dog so please tell me - what colour is the background for the "impersonate lerroux" header? if it's not already, could it be the same colour which lerroux used for april fools (which i believe was the same as rukario's)?

edit: apparently, the colour is #663399.

Fixed. It was originally dark green.

Gotta love how we can now represent "colours" with numbers :)

Are you able to see the entire warning text?

 

[Nihilego]

Hosted by Razor Leaf and ♪Twiggy♪.

Welcome to the Impersonate Lerroux contest! In this event, all you have to do is what it says in the title - impersonate everyone's favourite online dictator. But how exactly should you go about this? Well, like Lerroux would, you're going to be coming up with some absolutely ridiculous ideas for the community such as giving all members mod powers or permanently banning upon breaking the rules for the first time, for instance. Anything which is absurd and outrageous. However that's not the end of it! Like any good dictator should, you need to attempt to justify your ridiculous idea with thorough logic and persuasive skill. The more outrageous idea and the better the persuasion, the higher you score. If you don't understand, an example (along with many others) can be found here and in its enclosing forum.

To enter, you only need to do two things. One, you post your submissions in this thread. And two, you send a copy of your submission to either Razor Leaf or ♪Twiggy♪ via Private Message. While you are allowed to edit your submission after posting it, the original copy will be used to ensure that you haven't totally changed your idea - the one thing which is not allowed to be edited. You may enter up to two submissions, however, although you will only be judged for the better of the two. You need only post in this thread saying that you wish to enter to be signed up, and you can sign up then post your submission at a later date if it isn't ready yet.

Have fun destroying PokéCommunity!

Please note that ideas you submit will not be considered by staff for implementation; this is only for fun.


Rules [section b]

• All PokéCommunity rules apply.
• As noted above, be considerate. If you think your post might offend one person or a group of people then PM a host or simply don't say it.
• Two submissions at most only. If you try to enter more, all submissions after the second one will be omitted and you will not be judged for them even if they are better than the first two.
• Do not reply to others' submissions. All you do in this thread is sign up and post your own one.


Dates [section c]

tbd


Awards [section d]

tbd


Entrants [section e]

to be added during the event

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how's that looking? anything you want changed? also, i've got access to the lerroux account now for posting the thread. :]

 

[Legendary Silke]

Hosted by Razor Leaf and ♪Twiggy♪.

Welcome to the Impersonate Lerroux contest! In this event, all you have to do is what it says in the title - impersonate everyone's favourite online dictator. But how exactly should you go about this? Well, like Lerroux would, you're going to be coming up with some absolutely ridiculous ideas for the community such as giving all members mod powers or permanently banning upon breaking the rules for the first time, for instance. Anything which is absurd and outrageous. However that's not the end of it! Like any good dictator should, you need to attempt to justify your ridiculous idea with thorough logic and persuasive skill. The more outrageous idea and the better the persuasion, the higher you score. If you don't understand, an example (along with many others) can be found here and in its enclosing forum.

To enter, you only need to do two things. One, you post your submissions in this thread. And two, you send a copy of your submission to either Razor Leaf or ♪Twiggy♪ via Private Message. While you are allowed to edit your submission after posting it, the original copy will be used to ensure that you haven't totally changed your idea - the one thing which is not allowed to be edited. You may enter up to two submissions, however, although you will only be judged for the better of the two. You need only post in this thread saying that you wish to enter to be signed up, and you can sign up then post your submission at a later date if it isn't ready yet.

Have fun destroying PokéCommunity!

Please note that ideas you submit will not be considered by staff for implementation; this is only for fun.


Rules [section b]

[*]All PokéCommunity rules apply.
[*]As noted above, be considerate. If you think your post might offend one person or a group of people then PM a host or simply don't say it.
[*]Two submissions at most only. If you try to enter more, all submissions after the second one will be omitted and you will not be judged for them even if they are better than the first two.
[*]Do not reply to others' submissions. All you do in this thread is sign up and post your own one.


Dates [section c]

tbd


Awards [section d]

tbd


Entrants [section e]

to be added during the event

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how's that looking? anything you want changed? also, i've got access to the lerroux account now for posting the thread. :]

OK Dokey. :)

Impersonate Lerroux!

Hosted by Razor Leaf
and ♪Twiggy♪.

A Friendly Reminder
Keep the submissions within the PokéCommunity rules and in good taste. We reserve the right to delete any inappropriate submissions upon discovery, and all such instances will be reported to staff.

The most important thing:
Don't offend your fellow members! No one likes personal attacks. Not even you. Think about it.

Welcome to the Impersonate Lerroux contest! In this event, all you have to do is what it says in the title - impersonate everyone's favourite online dictator. But how exactly should you go about this? Well, like Lerroux would, you're going to be coming up with some absolutely ridiculous ideas for the community such as giving all members mod powers or permanently banning upon breaking the rules for the first time, for instance. Anything which is absurd and outrageous. However that's not the end of it! Like any good dictator should, you need to attempt to justify your ridiculous idea with thorough logic and persuasive skill. The more outrageous idea and the better the persuasion, the higher you score. If you don't understand, an example (along with many others) can be found here and in its enclosing forum.

To enter, you only need to do two things. One, you post your submissions in this thread. And two, you send a copy of your submission to either Razor Leaf or ♪Twiggy♪ via Private Message. While you are allowed to edit your submission after posting it, the original copy will be used to ensure that you haven't totally changed your idea - the one thing which is not allowed to be edited. You may enter up to two submissions, however, although you will only be judged for the better of the two. You need only post in this thread saying that you wish to enter to be signed up, and you can sign up then post your submission at a later date if it isn't ready yet.

Have fun destroying PokéCommunity!

Please note that ideas you submit will not be considered by staff for implementation; this is only for fun.

Rules

• All PokéCommunity rules apply.
• As noted above, be considerate. If you think your post might offend one person or a group of people then PM a host or simply don't say it.
• Two submissions at most only. If you try to enter more, all submissions after the second one will be omitted and you will not be judged for them even if they are better than the first two.
• Do not reply to others' submissions. All you do in this thread is sign up and post your own one.

Dates

tbd

Awards

tbd

Entrants

There are no entrants at the time of writing.

 

[Nihilego]

hey, sorry for taking so long. i've made a couple of little changes to the text like fixing typos and clarification and all that.

Impersonate Lerroux!

Hosted by Razor Leaf
and ♪Twiggy♪.

A Friendly Reminder
Keep the submissions within the PokéCommunity rules and in good taste. We reserve the right to delete any inappropriate submissions upon discovery, and all such instances will be reported to staff.

The most important thing:
Don't offend your fellow members!

Welcome to the Impersonate Lerroux contest! In this event, all you have to do is what it says in the title - impersonate everyone's favourite online dictator. But how exactly should you go about this? Well, like Lerroux would, you're going to be coming up with some absolutely ridiculous ideas for the community such as giving all members mod powers or permanently banning upon breaking the rules for the first time, for instance. Anything which is absurd and outrageous. However that's not the end of it! Like any good dictator should, you need to attempt to justify your ridiculous idea with thorough logic and persuasive skill. The more outrageous the idea and the better the persuasion, the higher you score. If you don't understand, an example (along with many others) can be found here and in its enclosing forum.

To enter, you only need to do two things. One, you post your submissions in this thread. And two, you send a copy of your submission to either Razor Leaf or ♪Twiggy♪ via Private Message. While you are allowed to edit your submission after posting it, the original copy will be used to ensure that you haven't totally changed your idea - the one thing which is not allowed to be edited. You may enter up to two submissions, however, although you will only be judged for the better of the two. You need only post in this thread saying that you wish to enter to be signed up, and you can sign up then post your submission at a later date if it isn't ready yet.

Have fun destroying PokéCommunity!

Please note that ideas you submit will not be considered by staff for implementation; this is only for fun.

Rules

• All PokéCommunity rules apply.
• As noted above, be considerate. If you think your post might offend one person or a group of people then PM a host or simply don't say it.
• Two submissions at most only. If you try to enter more, all submissions after the second one will be omitted and you will not be judged for them even if they are better than the first two.
• Do not reply to others' submissions. All you do in this thread is sign up and post your own one.

Dates

tbd

Awards

tbd

Entrants

There are no entrants at the time of writing.

that should do for now. next we should move on to what the emblems will be and how exactly we judge them. are we going to use some sort of point system or just pick 'good' ones?

 

[Legendary Silke]

hey, sorry for taking so long. i've made a couple of little changes to the text like fixing typos and clarification and all that.

Impersonate Lerroux!

Hosted by Razor Leaf
and ♪Twiggy♪.

A Friendly Reminder
Keep the submissions within the PokéCommunity rules and in good taste. We reserve the right to delete any inappropriate submissions upon discovery, and all such instances will be reported to staff.

The most important thing:
Don't offend your fellow members!

Welcome to the Impersonate Lerroux contest! In this event, all you have to do is what it says in the title - impersonate everyone's favourite online dictator. But how exactly should you go about this? Well, like Lerroux would, you're going to be coming up with some absolutely ridiculous ideas for the community such as giving all members mod powers or permanently banning upon breaking the rules for the first time, for instance. Anything which is absurd and outrageous. However that's not the end of it! Like any good dictator should, you need to attempt to justify your ridiculous idea with thorough logic and persuasive skill. The more outrageous the idea and the better the persuasion, the higher you score. If you don't understand, an example (along with many others) can be found here and in its enclosing forum.

To enter, you only need to do two things. One, you post your submissions in this thread. And two, you send a copy of your submission to either Razor Leaf or ♪Twiggy♪ via Private Message. While you are allowed to edit your submission after posting it, the original copy will be used to ensure that you haven't totally changed your idea - the one thing which is not allowed to be edited. You may enter up to two submissions, however, although you will only be judged for the better of the two. You need only post in this thread saying that you wish to enter to be signed up, and you can sign up then post your submission at a later date if it isn't ready yet.

Have fun destroying PokéCommunity!

Please note that ideas you submit will not be considered by staff for implementation; this is only for fun.

Rules

• All PokéCommunity rules apply.
• As noted above, be considerate. If you think your post might offend one person or a group of people then PM a host or simply don't say it.
• Two submissions at most only. If you try to enter more, all submissions after the second one will be omitted and you will not be judged for them even if they are better than the first two.
• Do not reply to others' submissions. All you do in this thread is sign up and post your own one.

Dates

tbd

Awards

tbd

Entrants

There are no entrants at the time of writing.

that should do for now. next we should move on to what the emblems will be and how exactly we judge them. are we going to use some sort of point system or just pick 'good' ones?

Looking great to me so far!

Points system tend to make making actual choices difficult, especially when entries end up with the same score. I think it might be a good idea to just pick something that we like the most without bothering to tally up points - something that is personally great. I think that if our choices somehow differ, we're going to have multiple winners or something. OK?

The obvious emblems: participation and winning. Then... uh, do we have to make up emblems on the fly for the secret ones? Do remember that we are allowed at most 5 emblem types.

 

[Nihilego]

Points system tend to make making actual choices difficult, especially when entries end up with the same score. I think it might be a good idea to just pick something that we like the most without bothering to tally up points - something that is personally great. I think that if our choices somehow differ, we're going to have multiple winners or something. OK?

hm, if you want to do it that way then that's all good with me - i'm pretty neutral so yeah, no points system is alright with me. as long as we're both looking for the same sort of thing, which i think we are, right?

The obvious emblems: participation and winning. Then... uh, do we have to make up emblems on the fly for the secret ones? Do remember that we are allowed at most 5 emblem types.

oh i meant what pictures should we use, haha. i'm happy with just the standard 1st, 2nd, 3rd and participation emblems. so if you think we should go with a 5th one for something then go ahead and give me your idea. but yeah i was mostly thinking of what the image should be. i was thinking maybe just a gigantic L in site admin, staff admin and assistant admin colours? and then it with a strike through it for the participation emblem. idk. we could have used dictators but i didn't think it appropriate to have hitler in an emblem...

 

[Legendary Silke]

hm, if you want to do it that way then that's all good with me - i'm pretty neutral so yeah, no points system is alright with me. as long as we're both looking for the same sort of thing, which i think we are, right?

I suppose. :)

oh i meant what pictures should we use, haha. i'm happy with just the standard 1st, 2nd, 3rd and participation emblems. so if you think we should go with a 5th one for something then go ahead and give me your idea. but yeah i was mostly thinking of what the image should be. i was thinking maybe just a gigantic L in site admin, staff admin and assistant admin colours? and then it with a strike through it for the participation emblem. idk. we could have used dictators but i didn't think it appropriate to have hitler in an emblem...

Hitler would be super problematic. Avoid.

 

[Nihilego]

yeah no hitler lol. what do you think we should use for emblems?

 

[Legendary Silke]

yeah no hitler lol. what do you think we should use for emblems?

Emblems, huh? Hmm... ... ... ...

We're on the PokeCommunity Get-Together. Pokemon-themed?

 

[Nihilego]

we'll come back to that. as for dates, how about we take entries in from the 25th? that should work out fine for me if it's alright with you.

 

[Legendary Silke]

we'll come back to that. as for dates, how about we take entries in from the 25th? that should work out fine for me if it's alright with you.

Thinking of a delayed start? Sounds OK, but as for when it should end... One day before the week ends?

 

[Nihilego]

actually i can run it all week, so don't worry too much about what i said @ the delayed start thing. i might just post it a bit earlier. :]

so it looks like all we need is the emblems?