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Originally Posted by Umaeril

I really do not understand why you should be telling me to run an avatar contest myself. I was not even talking to you. I have nothing to say about your posts. I am making my own post, to the owners of the site.

Except you're making said post in a community discussion thread. The fact of the matter is, everything Illusion said is right. (Shock! Horror!) It didn't have to come from a staff member just to be blessed as Word of God for it to be right.

The site staff can't do EVERYTHING. We can, at best, give the community a set of tools. It's up to the community itself to be active. The real secret sauce to a successful avatar site is for the community to be self-sustaining. We can give you everything in the world to talk about and play with, but YOU have to talk about it if there's going to be activity on the site.

That's not to say that we're not going to do ANYTHING. We've got plans and we're working on things.