Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30307603-20170128235740

Hello, guys! I hope your days have all been going well.

Today, I am proposing that this wiki returns the fan-generated art contest. Now this was an idea that a couple of other users and I threw around during "the revival era". However, it was swept under the rug in favor of more important matters at the time. Now that things have slowed down a bit, I would like to bring the idea back to the limelight.

Now, before, when it was briefly discussed, Game stated that such a contest would be a waste without participating users. However, I've noticed in the past few weeks that several new users have joined, and that number will probably rise in February due to the conspiracy to end this show faster February Fiesta. In addition with revival of the wiki's Twitter (not sure about the Tumblr, though), we can now reach out to more interested people than ever.

Doing a contest like this would not only give our main page a "fresh" new look, but it would also engage the Gumball community more, something I highly advocate. It would be a chance for the fan-artists to show their skills and be rewarded for it. Therefore, I:

Now assuming that this contest comes back, there are a few ways to handle it:

1. One such way is the use of the forums. A forum could be created for the purpose of people submitting art, and then another forum can be created where all the submitted artwork pieces are displayed. Very simple way. It encourages new users to make accounts to submit their work, and it's very light on the workload for the regulars running the contest.

2. Another method to go about this is the use of email. An email account can be made (most likely by me or some admin), and the wiki account can tweet out this email to get their attention. Then, the owner of the account (most likely me or some admin), can upload all the eligible artwork on a certain deadline. From there, it can be placed on a thread where voting resumes expected. Although it's a very clunky and flawed way to handle it, it does have the added benefit of preventing "naughty" entries from reaching the main wiki by adding that barrier.

3. A combination of both. It's pretty self-explanatory.

In addition, if the art contest is revived, I propose we imitate the official sub-reddit and have this art contest be a monthly event. Although the original annual event was less work extensive, the monthly alternative not only bring something fresh to the main page every month, but it keeps artists more likely to participate simply because there's a higher frequency.

I've said my long piece. Please discuss. 