by Pwolf » Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:12 am
This rant stems from many years of participating in active conversation and lurking in the shadows watching other discussions and arguments (also lack of sleep). Recent discussions involving the website redesign, certain members being more vocal recently, and the VCAs/JCAs have pushed me over the edge.
I was pretty ticked off the other day when Nya was in the IRC chatroom talking about "internationalizing" the JCAs. I then get on the forums tonight and see people complaining about results because they think another community should have better representation in the JCAs. Their views about AMVs are different then the org's so the VCAs/JCAs results suck. STOP! JUST STOP!
The VCAs and JCAs serve only the animemusicvideos.org community and nothing else. I don't care if you're Russian, French, Japanese, European or American. I don't care if you belong to any other amv related community. The VCAs is what the org does every year to attempt to recognize all those who submit their videos to it's databases. The JCAs were created to present a different viewpoint by selecting a panel of judges to vote for the videos rather then the user base. Those judges voted on by the user base. Both contests do not try to appoint the best video ever created. The VCAs and JCAs serve no other purpose and don't try to appease the other communities that exist. They shouldn't have to. The org is not the amv community...
Let me repeat that...
THE ORG IS NOT THE AMV COMMUNITY!
Do i need to type that out again? I don't know what caused people to think this over the years but it never was and never will be. And it shouldn't for the very reason people are complaining about the results of the org's contest. The org is a resource. It just happens to have a community built around it. Just like AMVNews is a resource with a community built around it. Just like Youtube is a resource with a community (or communities) built around it. They are not connected to each other other then the fact that one member of one community may just happen to be a member of another and we share resources. The org is big but that doesn't mean it should cater to the whim of another community because they don't like how it's run or the results of their annual contest.
So, if you don't like the results because the particular community you like to frequent didn't get a fair say in the results, you're arguing over something that doesn't need to be argued. Your community doesn't deserve representation. This contest wasn't for that community, it was for the org, get over it. If the people of that community were more active in this community then their views would be heard more. This is why there are different communities to begin with. We all have different opinions and views.
While still on the subject of "The org is not the amv community" i ask everyone to stop acting like it is. I see people using the "org is the community" "fact" far too many times to make a point and they are wrong. WRONG. There is nothing anyone can say that would prove the org "is the community". It just isn't so stop thinking it is. The org is a community within the whole, it is not the whole (albeit a big piece of it). If you don't like how it's run, hows it's contests are run, or the rules it lays out, there are others for you join, pick one.
*shakes cane and wanders off*