Board Thread:Townie of the Month/@comment-25615841-20190602141558/@comment-35356104-20190612103121

Useful or not, things can be subjective at times. I think consider myself helpful in writing review, because I really did my best to elaborate my opinion with factual support. Some may think that my review isn't useful, because I am very self-centred, craving a stage to show-off, and focus on expressing myself instead of engaging myself in a discussion. Some may say that my review is useful because they think that I'm trying to be informative. Evaluating myself, I don't find my review useful, because I fail to deliver idea and knowledge to the creator. GamesManiac? Helpful? I don't know, never interested to know whether I'm bitchy or helpful to you, but I'm interested to know if you understand my points. I also did a research report about BG because, firstly, I wish Wikians are well-informed and well grounded in game's mechanic, and secondly, I wish Wikians are active in sharing knowledge. I know it wasn't received well, but I try to help the community and the game in my own way. My mainspace sucks, grammar sucks, vocab sucks, personality sucks, but I gave in all the sh*t I have. Yes, I'm boastful, I'm very proud of myself that I still preserve my contributing spirit by ditching ToTM.

I had an embarrassing drama with ToTM where I made a statement about not joining ToTM forever with freaking terrible grammar and vocab, and apologize if I ever hurt anyone in that incident, but I don't regret doing so. I'm a sinner, it is unevitable that I can be vain sometimes, wish to be recognized, but I feel very different when I realised I still do things sincerely. Competing ToTM makes me uncomfortable as I lose genuineness in contributing, while winning ToTM makes me feel obligated to contribute, not because I want to. I never intended to diss anyone involving in ToTM, I won't be judging people like me judging myself, cause I know I'm weird, I takes things negatively, while I can't cope with the influence. All I want to say is that: What is ToTM to you? Why are people so particular and precise about "useful", when it can't valued mathematically, or at best, consistent subjective criteria on determining usefulness? People approach "helpful" differently, none of us is superior enough to judge things with our own sense including mod. Forgive them if you feel like your edits' worthiness is wrongfully judged, they aren't Gods. But question is, who else can judge better than mod? Not us. I believe all the mods are far more experienced in game, far refined in personality, far wiser in leading. The best-possible outcome is made by Mod.

Of course, I accept judgemental behaviour as an innate behaviour, but if it is to proactively value a worthiness of an edit, besides those straight-out toxic that shows no intention to help, I advise: Please refrain from doing this. Why ToTM exist when we are not allowed to judge? ToTM is an incentive, like an encouragement for those who work hard for the community and the game. If you're tired of doing contribution without recognization, give ToTM a try, there's nothing wrong with treating yourself a little flair, even though it is to feed the vainity of yours, you deserve it when you had sacrificed a lot. Winning ToTM marks the end of the journey in Wiki on a lot of winners where they have no regret with leaving Wiki, not many take it as an encouragement, it is mostly a sign of losing another respectable Wikian. Or maybe they are still around, I just don't know. Sorry in advance if I offend anyone. Instead of finding it annoying, I find ToTM winner who run for the second nomination admirable. They still do what they're doing before winning, even though they know they had done enough to be recognized by community. They reached the Hall of Fame but they still do things like what a role model should. I definitely love to spectate a second ToTM run from the winner, whether they win or not, it is priceless.

Says the one who never want to join ToTM, don't take ToTM to an extent of losing the value of yourself and your contribution. It is nice to keep things healthily competitive. You can chase after it, but don't indulge in it. Find the meaning of your contributing process while looking for the glamour. If you want it badly, help consistently. Don't let 20 edits stop you. Do more than that, more than anyone else. I believe Mods are wise enough to see that. Instead of wasting time pinpointing Mods for miscalculating your useful edit and argue for that, why don't you save the time to do more edits? Keeping effort at minimal, hoping for the best outcome? Please, no. There are a lot of things to contribute besides role idea & review and mainspace. If you find yourself kind of influential, get your friend to join a debate maybe? competition? If you like to work alone, you can do reports on poll, research or investigation, blabla.. I wish I have 48 hours a day to do all these things. If you have a lot of time hanging out in Fun & Board game, make use of it.

tl;dr: There's no exact standard of useful, don't be overcalculative over this, and don't be so demanding in questioning Mods. Get your intention right for running ToTM. I can't say what's right or wrong, but some intention gets you nowhere. Get your attitude right, show your sportsmanship. Get your effort right, don't expect a lot when you only fulfill the most basic criteria. You expect to become the top one in your class when you only pass your exam only at minimal marks?