Super Update Bros - January 31st 2013

[Clanker37]

I love NSM's sense of humor! xD

[Cobraroll]

I'm more for having regular updates than big updates, as I've stated many times before.

Visitors who occasionally drop by NSM to see if there is any news will be satisfied as long as something is uploaded with regular intervals. Big updates are nice and all, but if they only happen twice a year, they won't make visitors coming back. A small trickle of sheets, down to a couple of sheets a week, would still make the main site a place where people can expect some news with regularity. And two new sheets every week will fill up the database more quickly than 30 new sheets every four months.

I propose that we keep doing the submission process exactly as we do now, with a cap on how many sheets are uploaded in every thread, but that we open up for the thread to be emptied at a pace that fits the uploaders. If they can only critique and update a handful of sheets every week, so be it. Any news is better than no news. As the submission thread is gradually emptied, the workload will lessen. When the final sheet is uploaded, a new submission thread goes up. If people want more updates, they can help review the remaining sheets.

Either way, well done! It's good that we even got an update in the first place, no matter how small it was. Now looking forward to the next!

[spitllama]

100% agree with Cobra

[FSM-Reapr]

100% agree with Cobra

100% agree with Spit

[EFitTrainr]

We should do daily updates again.

[blueflower999]

I 100% agree with Shadowkirby

[Bubbles]

I know everyone's been going crazy trying to think of a way for the submissions to work, so heres another one ^^

What if each arranger set aside a place in their submissions thread with the sheets they wish to submit, and the updaters can go through and check them at their own pace? Im not sure whether it would be easier to have huge updates with multiple sheets or just one at a time, but this could work either way. They would still need to be approved by multiple updaters like they are now.

Just a thought

also

I 100% agree with Shadowkirby

[JDMEK5]

What if each arranger set aside a place in their submissions thread with the sheets they wish to submit, and the updaters can go through and check them at their own pace? Im not sure whether it would be easier to have huge updates with multiple sheets or just one at a time, but this could work either way. They would still need to be approved by multiple updaters like they are now.

That sorta eliminates the current order we have set... (By 'order' I mean opposite of chaos)
The possibility for disaster here is huge. (If not inevitable)
Therefore, I can't really say this should be a possibility.

How could it turn out as bad as I mentioned?
1) Arrangers who haven't posted anything in their submissions topic for a long time would therefore have their topic buried under X (insert reasonably big number) pages in the submissions board. Therefore, the updaters would have a very hard time finding those people. (If they can find them at all)
2) Unless the updaters can go through sheets at an average of 'I-don't-know-but-it's-lots' sheets per hour, arrangers will be waiting forever to get their sheets looked at. Because the updaters can only deal with 1 person's arrangements at once.
3) Because only one person is getting all the attention for Y amount of time, all the other arrangers would be on hold until their turn.
Let's just say I feel bad for whoever's in last. I it were me, I'd probably get discouraged after a year or so and would probably just quit.
4) Even if your arrangements had just been looked over and those that met standards were added to the site, you'd have to wait until the entire process goes around again to get your next batch up. New ones and old ones that you fixed to meet standards.
5) If the updaters can't add sheets to the site faster than the combined efforts of all the arrangers can arrange, each arranger's list is going to get longer and longer. And therefore the time it takes for the updaters to clear that list will get longer and longer and eventually.... You get what I mean.
6) I couldn't type as fast as the thoughts flew through my head so I've forgotten the rest. I think there were two or three more I was going to write down...
But I did list the biggest points. So that's basically why I don't think that would work.

We should do daily updates again.

Yes if we can keep it up. It wasn't really going long enough to see if it really worked and if it did, how well; (two days is hardly a trial period. ) but I'm ready and perfectly willing to try it again.

[Cobraroll]

I know everyone's been going crazy trying to think of a way for the submissions to work, so heres another one ^^

What if each arranger set aside a place in their submissions thread with the sheets they wish to submit, and the updaters can go through and check them at their own pace? Im not sure whether it would be easier to have huge updates with multiple sheets or just one at a time, but this could work either way. They would still need to be approved by multiple updaters like they are now.

Actually, this was the way it was done way back when I joined. It turned out that required the mods to constantly sift through dozens of submission threads, people complaining about the mods "not picking their best song", and people claiming to be overlooked. A mess to organize. It changed to the current model to ease the work for the uploaders.

[The Deku Trombonist]

Guys relax, Deku's working on something really cool.

[Yugi]

I 100% agree with nothing

[Winter]

I say change nothing. Buy everyone a caffeine pill. I am starting to work on submissions if you can't tell, and what the heck is deku doing o.o

[Dude]

And yes, I am reading an article about the effects of throwing a baseball at 90% the speed of light.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

I was reading that a few days ago too!

[Winter]

That's the one! And I made it through at least fifteen of those. My favorite was the 'probability of the election ending in a tie'

[BonusPwnage]

http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

I was reading that a few days ago too!

This website is really cool. I would never think in the way those guys do.
My favorite was the 'Glass Half Empty' one.