Toooo bad, I love heated discussions :)

My habits are what this community is about, show me anything after my first week of joining that was not and lets go through it and I will happily change it up a bit if it is warranted. I'm not close minded here folks :) Open to whatever you think makes it a better place to hang out for a few minutes a day. For me, it's what I enjoy at the given moment. Either my list or someone elses. To me, that is the fun.

I'm not being a hothead. The makefive blog lists that its allowing its users to self regulate some of the user habits that creep up. Me and Nelson just happen to be outspoken about your obvious point seeking habits. You claim to be interested in every topic you post on, yet you often just seem to select options others have left, or re-word things to get more points. Its obvious.

I post these things publicly, both so that you see them, your actions are more obvious/transparent to other users, and so that the users who don't feel comfortable confronting your habits know that there is a group that is looking out for the website.

Again, I'm sure you have underlying good intentions with being part of the site, and I'm certainly not asking you to stop. But I think your habits are against what the site was for. Having fun is one thing, but you are taking away from it with your redundant, lazy topics, voting habits, and by your own admission, topic bumping habits.

I'm just being vocal about it, but me and nelson are certainly not the only ones who feel this way.

Keep having fun, keep doing what you do on your 100+ communities, that's fine. I'm not doing any of this for the prizes either. I just value the site and its owners and the users and want the community to grow.

wow... i'm not going to turn this into too much of a heated discussion, but i take issue with a number of things you indicated ...firstly, the makefive users you have mentioned are not bitter, nor are they hotheads -- i repeat, not bitter, not hotheads ... i would argue that a number of users, myself included, see the *COMMUNITY* in this, not the game, as you put it ... you seem to go on at length regarding the fact that you simply enjoy making lists. That's great; nothing wrong with that. "It is simply enjoyable for me" -- that's the bit of the challenge we have here, in that it appears to be all about you. This is a community. By continually voting and uploading topics that you have created, and having them therefore be on the home page, the makefive community looks like the webdesign community ... you are visually drowning out the voices of the other members ...but, it's likely the makefive updates being planned will help with this.

Your damn right I push it back to the top sometimes :)

Why? I'll give your narrow mind 2 immediate responses as I always enjoy debating with a hot-head or 2 :).

So people can see a topic that is part of an upcoming holiday without searching for Halloween directly AND because I have may add other costumes to the list that I deem appropriate.

FYI, some more nuts and bolts for anyone who cares :)...

To me MakeFive (and the other 100+ communities I belong to online) are all in good fun. If they took away all of the items you can win, I would still do it all exactly the same. It is simply enjoyable for me and will continue to be no matter what the prizes are.

A thought...

Maybe they can have rotating prizes so if FOR EXAMPLE I decide to continue posting lists and am ahead of others, I wouldnt get the same prize as last month, and someone else can have it, even if it is an iPOD and I get a Ham SANDWICH, Im OK with it. The prizes are a fun bonus but honestly I just truly enjoy making lists and interacting with the cool part of the community.

Certainly sounds like you (and maybe some others like NELSON) have some major issues and are quite bitter about several things. Hopefully you see the game in all of this and enjoy vs all the nonsense.

Its entirely up to you though, of course.

I will be here posting lists and interacting until it bores me.

8o) Sam 8o)

I just hope you realize its obvious that you keep re-voting on your topics to boost them back onto the home page. I'm hoping the newest round of updates will stop such lowly point seeking tactics.

Gracias :) Costumes always make me laugh.

Nice topic!