No, seriously though. I have a question for you
lovebugs, at least the ones to enjoy participating in hunts. Are you enjoying, or liking the general product coming out of the enormous chain of hunts going on lately, and the amount of effort put into them?
I personally, appreciate a handful of hunt organizers for the effort they put into their hunts, such as Cutey Magic and her Bunny Hop. While a lot of people thought it was rude to turn people away, I disagree. I think it's commendable, and respectable to be honest with people in order to provide a higher quality hunt to participate in later. It shows a huge amount of respect for the prospective participants, and as one, I can appreciate that. It also helps the creators. Those who get in the hunt, because this weeds out people who judge a hunt by it's one bad seed, and it helps encourage those who don't to exceed their personal expectations in their creations.
There are however, a lot of hunts going on lately, and I mean A LOT. To me, it's beginning to come of as a trend. "Oh, so and so has a hunt. Let's do one too, but wait a month so it doesn't seem like we are doing it to fit in." to blatantly generalize. I hope I'm not coming off as a hunt hater. I'm not. I love hunting. I'm one of the few who actually do hunts without sheets, in fact I'm usually the one MAKING the sheets for the lazy, or less enthused hunters to participate. It just doesn't appeal to me to hunt anymore because why does there need to be 15 hunts going on a row? Small hunts are one thing,
sim-wide, or store-wide are perfectly acceptable. But back to back chains of grid wide hunts is getting old, and patrons of
GW's are being drowned in
gifts that weren't thought through as "This is my store, I want you to come back".
To me, having a plethora of grid wide hunts, deteriorates the quality of any given one. I personally feel, that a grid wide hunt is a bigger deal, and shouldn't just happen on the spur of the moment thought; "Oh hey, we can do one to." Why?! Seriously, I would honestly love feedback from you guys. Shed some light on it for me, because I see stores joining hunts, one after the other. I've seen a few stores in every single hunt. It's not that I don't appreciate the
generosity of creators (while a lot of people put out horrible representations of their store. This seen from an inside perspective on an upcoming hunt), I just can't fathom why a creator would do that?
Yes, I know creators do it for exposure, but what about that old saying that no one will buy the cow if you are giving away the milk for free? The grid needs to become lactose
intolerant, and fast, because the number of hunts, especially ones that crop up for no good reason, cause, or by any good organized person just need to stop.
I appreciate the effort of the hunt, the challenge and fun of participating in those I chose, and some of the amazing things that come out of them.... but not the fact that everyone and their mom, uncle, sister, and best friend need to "organize one" because now, it's not about quality.. it's about doing it because everyone else is, and more and more I see people exclaiming how much "shit" they deleted. What kind of reward is that, for doing your hunt?
My advice, would be hold out on trying to organize your own, and join, or try to join one that you know has a higher level of status behind it, like from a set of people who have presented us with amazing hunts before. If you can't, or don't want to hold out for another hunt, and you insist on running your own show; SCREEN THE STORES! A lot of you are thinking "Fuck you, it should be fair
opportunity." No, it shouldn't. The grid, isn't a select body of people who have the same exact taste. You have people of ever taste, style, sense of personal quality. By taking a random sample of peers, and screening items for a hunt, you get a GENERAL idea of feedback, to base "quality" on what is acceptable to offer people to your hunts. A lot of you are saying "Well if you don't like it, don't fucking do it." Hi, headcase, you can't "like" it if you don't do it first and hunts, aren't for the creators. They are for the grid. They are FOR US the general public, why get lazy, pull something you hate so much you wouldn't sell it, and shove it in a box? Take the time to show that people have something to respect you, as an organizer, and those who you want as creators in your hunt, otherwise.. what is the point?
You want freebies? Go to a
Unifreeb shop. You want gifts to show you new shops. Do a grid wide hunt. It's that simple. The weak part, is when the grid wide equates to the quality of a
Unifreeb shop. I love hunting. I just don't see a point in doing it anymore. Too many to keep up with, and nothing worth keeping because of how thin creators are spreading themselves, to keep up with the hunts themselves.
I'm too
longwinded, end rant!
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