Are things slower around here?

[Kosheh]

I just read the last four posts, and...
I think... we're all... actually agreeing with each other?

It seems like Kosheh sort of missed the point of what we were saying entirely

yeah psh most of these posts are boring, i just audibly announced "Fuck People" and threw a bunch of words into the topic

thats how u post on the internet dog. frick all the haters.

and yet somehow ended up repeating sort of the same thing in different words.

sounds about right

Anyway, as far as the original content thing goes, none of us are saying that people can't post .... well, stuff like this

As you said, people have to start out somewhere, and this is how people start. That's a given. But we're talking in terms of showcasing user art representative of the site, and obviously that type of thing isn't what you'd really want to put in a showcase.
Edits and (unoriginal) sprite comics and videos certainly have their place and I'm not saying they should be disallowed, but they shouldn't be something that we rep as a site unless it's somehow REALLY good (which, let's be real, 99.99% of them are complete turds)
Instead we should showcase things that we can say "See how good this is? You could be like this one day too"

hey look we're saying the same thing, again
you're literally saying what should be showcased in the idea (which i brought up prior, with a cool picture [long live Luchador Office])

it's kind of common sense that we'd showcase only our nicest stuff, don't you think? not just joe schmoe's megaman edits or this Ha Ha So Funny (Not) Sonic Hedgehog Comic

the idea of a showcase is to show off your best stuff (doy)

Why does the fact that we help to teach and nurture beginning/middling spriters mean that we can't also cater to experienced ones as well?
Why does our demographic have to be locked to either/or instead of just "spriters"?

Uh...that's the thing. There's relatively few of them, because once the marjority of them realize that they're getting too many "wow g8 sprite!!"s and not enough criticisms, the next logical step is to join a more experienced community consisting of more experienced spriters (like pixeljoint) and ultimately getting the desired C+C you're looking for.

like, i guess we could try to cater to the experienced ones - but with what? at the very least, could we add a PixelJoint profile link in the Social Sites forum Mod as the start of an attempt to bridge the gap? :/