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[challenge entry] The mighty moossie cat.

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(I helped save b3ta! Memaxx, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 9:27, archived)
# Looks evil. Might be in league with Moosifur
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:00, archived)
# Wouldn't mess with him.
On the other hand he is a sleep 20h a day.
(I helped save b3ta! Memaxx, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:03, archived)
# Looks more like moody cat.
BTW what happened to b3ta? Been away for a few days weeks months years and everybody seems to have left. :(
(I helped save b3ta! inexpressible started a joke on, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:06, archived)
# ^that
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:17, archived)
# Everybody's dead, Dave.
(I helped save b3ta! Fork Has lost his bash virginity!, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:53, archived)
# Other people did what you did
It's a peculiar and hard to understand phenomena, but it seems that B3ta is less active when people leave or contribute less.
It's all swings and roundabouts :)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:02, archived)
# what would make b3ta busy again?













(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:20, archived)
# I'm with the 2 image challenges/week suggestion.
New ones always seem to give /board a kick.

That said, hopefully the Twitter feed will help both remind people the site exists, and also make them realise that the place is good to launch projects and pictures. A pic being tweeted by that gives people's work more exposure than they are likely to get by just tweeting it on their own account.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:35, archived)
# I think a large number of old folk would fly back if the image challenge had the occasional prize like in the old days
nothing like greed to motivate :D


Obviously you'd be banned from entering to make it fair ;)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42, archived)
# I actually think points might work better than prizes.
Let people know how many likes they have amassed over their stay here, bonus points for fp, easter eggs like a gayshift badge for posting at 3am.

(There's a coding site called stackoverflow who do this - it is oddly addictive.)
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:53, archived)
# This is a massively good idea
I demand points for my overweight gifs, poor links and bad attempts at humour.
(I helped save b3ta! DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:20, archived)
# I not so sure about that..
I used to do a bit of Photochopping in the Photoshop threads on Fark.com in the States, but they had a points system and that was the death of it.
A lot of wankers started taking it WAY too seriously, cliques tried to rig the points, and no-talent tossers spent all their time vote whoring with memes and in jokes.
Eventually I just got sick of it and walked away.
b3ta doesn't have points and it's all pretty informal and laissez faire, which is good.
Prizes would be fun and maybe 2 challenges a week would be OK though.
(Brian O'Blivion contains hazardous material, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:18, archived)
# Brian is right
I have changed my mind. Prizes would be cool. I would try harder if I could win a cup signed by Rob in marker pen.
(I helped save b3ta! DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:02, archived)
# your insights into the political world
are pleasantly ass toot.
(I helped save b3ta! kombu dashi, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 17:15, archived)
# Yeah, 2 challenges would be good
I've had two close run suggestions consigned to oblivion. I think it's a shame that we can't hold two side by side, especially when the people voting don't even contribute!
(DolphinWhipperer, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 13:31, archived)
# Everyone knows that
gayshift is bestshift
(I helped save b3ta! --- ---, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:15, archived)
# True
(I helped save b3ta! BorisKarloff is in the back of the classroom forever, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 18:04, archived)
# Yeah, yeah, alright :)
It just surprised me that so many b3tans seem to have left or went into lurking mode. Oh well.
(I helped save b3ta! inexpressible started a joke on, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:22, archived)
# People grow up, change jobs that don't allow b3ta, run out of hummus,
plus Reddit, Facebook and Twitter took off and took away a lot of commentators - without which the picture posters give up. All sorts of reasons really.
But it's still lumbering along and you never know, the new wave of b3ta people might be just around the corner :)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:30, archived)
# we are
but it's a big corner and i think there's a spider on it...
(I helped save b3ta! Ya What Skiddlyboop, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:48, archived)
# Also its summer and the weather is nice - Lots of people aren't in front of their computahs.
Also Rob has abandoned us.
(I helped save b3ta! DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:34, archived)
# can you get a photoshop app yet?
(I helped save b3ta! Ya What Skiddlyboop, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:39, archived)
# Victim of it's own success, up to a point.
I painted a new pic this weekend but didn't post it; it simply isn't good enough for the standards on here now.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 13:03, archived)
# Post it anyway.
If people are nervous about posting something because it may not go down well, then that is a problem.

The popular board flags up the best stuff, so /board should be a place for people to work out what works via trial-and-error. Even bad work is likely to have the benefit of making someone else think "I could do better" and worry less about posting their own work.

And bad work can often cause a fun thread or even a meme in the case of Horse Is An Alien.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 13:09, archived)
# An extended popular page would be good
You can miss all sorts of ace stuff being away just for a couple of days and would show a wider selection to tempt new visitors
(I helped save b3ta! hekim 66 ɐʇƐ𐐒 ʞɔnℲ uooW, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 13:18, archived)
# I always liked your work, and I think most people here feel the same
So please post it.
(I helped save b3ta! inexpressible started a joke on, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 13:33, archived)
# Part of the problem is getting it all under 50k
I draw large, and optimising really fecks it up more than it was. But I'll have a try and will post it.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 14:49, archived)
# the suggested size limit went up to 100k about 5 years ago
also, now it's quiet that doesn't matter so much
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 15:38, archived)
# 50k? hahaha, check the front page.
The faq is for n00bs, you do what the fuck you want. Seriously, regulars post 5 meg gifs and nobody bats an eyelid.
(I helped save b3ta! Ham o' Shatner -.-- --- ..- .-. / .- .-.. .-.. / --. .- -.--, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 16:18, archived)
[challenge entry] :)
(I helped save b3ta! Ninj, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:15, archived)
# Crumbs
(I helped save b3ta! spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:16, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! Memaxx, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:26, archived)
# Orders bigger cat flap
Moose Good
(I helped save b3ta! spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:17, archived)