[Question] 1st Place Contests winners can be bought now or it just a glitch?

[Jin]

I hope no one buys it by mistake O_O

 

[iNotorious]

The premise is that it's a glitch, much in the same manner we assume it's not going to be 999 dollars if this whole thing is legit.

Even the title given to the subscription implies it.

Then there's the "this is the usergroup for contest winners".

I think they still have to work out some some things.

Like what, i'm kind of interested in what you said, what kind of ''twist'' do they have to have a different between the real ''1st contests winners'' and the one that ''pays'' for it.

 

[Hazo]

Mods need to verify and correct on this matter

 

[Disquiet]

Like what, i'm kind of interested in what you said, what kind of ''twist'' do they have to have a different between the real ''1st contests winners'' and the one that ''pays'' for it.

That's the thing, you can't pay to be a contest winner[/]. Since I've been on NB, I've seen admins simply use "cyan usergroup". They hardly go out their way to say, "I've got to place you in the 1st place contest winner usergroup".

If it's the cyan/large ava you're paying for (I'm sure we both agree that it'll be extremely illogical to buy an award), why that title instead of "cyan user"? The title reads: 1st Place Contest Winners.

We'll be paying for cyan, not to be a contest winner. The difference you're curious about is the fact they didn't win anything.

But, but! If they have to win to even be able to pay for it, the title then makes much more sense.

Not to mention how illogical it'd be to have anyone be able to buy it. If anyone can buy it, why restrict gifting it to people? Anyone can have it after all. Many users would be content with just cyan, so I wouldn't be surprised if the interests in contest dropped to an unprecedented low. On the other hand, interest could rise if a contest meant keeping cyan as long as you can pay for it.

Then we get to the extreme lost of value on the cyan, it's no longer a 1st place prize (again - this brings us back to the implications of the title, how in the world is it a usergoup for contest winners if I'm not a contest winner?).

Sure, they'll maybe gain much more money (though I do have my doubts on this, I mean why create simply for money when the only difference between cyan and premium is the usernsame color?? In fact! why not just add the color cyan as an optional color in the premium permission groups??), but at the price of completely destroying any merit the contest system still have.

I actually have much faith that they're not this illogical.

 

[iNotorious]

That's the thing, you can't pay to be a contest winner[/]. Since I've been on NB, I've seen admins simply use "cyan usergroup". They hardly go out their way to say, "I've got to place you in the 1st place contest winner usergroup".

If it's the cyan/large ava you're paying for (I'm sure we both agree that it'll be extremely illogical to buy an award), why that title instead of "cyan user"? The title reads: 1st Place Contest Winners.

We'll be paying for cyan, not to be a contest winner. The difference you're curious about is the fact they didn't win anything.

But, but! If they have to win to even be able to pay for it, the title then makes much more sense.

Not to mention how illogical it'd be to have anyone be able to buy it. If anyone can buy it, why restrict gifting it to people? Anyone can have it after all. Many users would be content with just cyan, so I wouldn't be surprised if the interests in contest dropped to an unprecedented low. On the other hand, interest could rise if a contest meant keeping cyan as long as you can pay for it.

Then we get to the extreme lost of value on the cyan, it's no longer a 1st place prize (again - this brings us back to the implications of the title, how in the world is it a usergoup for contest winners if I'm not a contest winner?).

Sure, they'll maybe gain much more money (though I do have my doubts on this, I mean why create simply for money when the only difference between cyan and premium is the usernsame color?? In fact! why not just add the color cyan as an optional color in the premium permission groups??), but at the price of completely destroying any merit the contest system still have.

I actually have much faith that they're not this illogical.

Actually that's the bold part that i'm referring, i doubt that if you buy the 1st contest winner usergroup you will get an award, you most likely going to get the color but i agree with the @Underline suggestion.

 

[Caliburn]

I assume it's a bug. Till recently we had to place contest winners in and out manually in the 1st place contest winners usergroup. Cyan only lasts for one month, but it's quite tricky to keep track of all the contest winners resulting in some people complaining that their cyan got removed while other people keep running around with it for months. So Zise and Versuvio installed some kind of a contest winner subscription. We give people who won a contest a subscription that gives them automatically a cyan name, but that also disappears automatically when that month is over. The contest subscriptions and the premium subscriptions are also located together in the admin CP, so I assume something accidentally went wrong there.

Either way Zise will take care of it.

PS: For the ones who are going on about unfairness, ripping and voting for friends in the Art Contest, for the record the Art Contes actually has in that regard actually rarely had major issues. There are also a few people on NB who actually made a job out of it to catch rippers. So you're pretty much sprouting baseless nonsense.

 

[Zise]

Only the 2 new premium usergroups (the no symbol + glow) and (no symbol + no glow) was able to buy it for 999usd per month. I set it to that high cause i figured nobody would buy it if I in the future would forget to add the permission to new usergroups. It should be gone soon as the settings update. However by all means go and pay 999$ for a month of cyan... if you want to xD.

Should be a contest anyway for who can spend the most money on the most useless stuff.