Hello, and welcome to Best of the Worst, a group for content that shouldn't be nearly as popular as it is! So what's this all about, exactly?
Well, like many ideas, this one occurred over lunch. Nikki and I were taking pictures of things, and talking with Laura and Jim about 'artistic photographs' -- and how many of them end up bad, and yet still attract plenty of positive feedback. I thought about it, and decided it would make an interesting experiment to find out just how bad an article, image, or video could possibly be and still retain a perfect 10-point rating. So upon returning, I created this group.
The rules are simple:
Obviously, you can only post content you personally created. Content is removed from Best of the Worst once it is one week old and has received any rating less than 10, or if it does not allow ratings at all. We will have an official Leaderboard that shows the longest-reigning Best of the Worst Champions -- those that have retained a perfect ten beyond all reason for the longest amount of time, in the categories of articles, images, and music -- which will be updated once per week.
Now for the disclaimer:
By posting to this group, you acknowledge that the content you post here probably doesn't deserve a perfect ten, and therefore promise not to get angry if and when it falls below a perfect ten. Furthermore, you acknowledge that by posting it here, your perfect ten is likely to disappear more quickly. This is strictly a tongue-in-cheek sort of group, and should not be joined or posted to if you take Gather ratings too seriously. Relax, post your content, and have some laughs with us about which content defies all reason by remaining at the top of our charts.
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Comments: 43
Yep, -- this (and the leaderboard) are the only unratables that get to stick around. ::grins:: They're all meta like that.
Isn't that supposed to be the classic worst?
This should be lots of fun!
I'm confused, as usual.
::winks:: Yeah, I wanted to forestall the 'does that mean you have to republish the welcome message because it now has less than a 10 on it' argument.
"Obviously, you can only post content you personally created. Content is removed from Best of the Worst once it is one week old and has received any rating less than 10, or if it does not allow ratings at all. We will have an official Leaderboard that shows the longest-reigning Best of the Worst Champions -- those that have retained a perfect ten beyond all reason for the longest amount of time, in the categories of articles, images, and music -- which will be updated once per week."
There is nothing "obvious" about being able to post only the content you have personally created. Many here, including myself, would be simply itching to provide you with total drek which you would immediately eject from your spam box, but which for some unknown reason here receives accolade after accolade, even though it quite clearly marked with a SPAM header. Suggest substitute the unadorned "1. You can only post content you have personally created."
What does "once it is one week old and has received any rating less than 10, or if it does not allow ratings at all" mean? I don't want to get into the rules of logic here, but the use of the conjunctions "and" and "or" here are ambiguous. Can you fix this up? And what is the force of the phrase "Beyond all reason" in "those [pieces] that have retained a perfect ten beyond all reason"? This is confusing too. It suggests that there may be some legitimate reasons why candidate pieces continue to rate a perfect 10, but there is no indication of what these might be, or how anyone would determine such a thing, and what results would ensue.
Further, the long interpolation beginning with "those that have…" is stylistically clumsy and confusing, and should have very own sentence. The conclusion "—which will be updated once per week" does not follow properly from its antecedent "Best of the Worst Champions". Actually, I'm a bit surprised that of all the careful writers and nitpickers your group would inevitably invite, I seem to be the only one who has picked you up what is, truth be told, a pretty shoddy piece of work, and which has been in that state for some four months. This might sound a little abrupt of me, but we are after all talking about a group that is taking the mickey out of overrated contributions. Physician, heal thyself, and remove log from own eye and so on and so on...
Being a newbie to Gather myself, I thought that the principal rule here was that if you wished to insult some other writer, you gave them 9 out of 10. But I'm in anyway, and when I write something that deserves less than a 10, I'll let you know. But don't hold your breath.