Looking for ideas for contests!

As the title states, im looking for ideas for contests. Feel free to post your ideas here or PM me directly.

If someone posts an idea you dont like, please keep your comments to yourself. I will not tolerate rudeness toward other members.

Thank you for your help and support. Feel free to ask questions as well.

What happened to the results of that Southperry Q&A?

What happened to the results of that Southperry Q&A?

Honestly Sarah, we didn't get a huge response on that one unfortunately.

Lets seeeeee.
1)In forum Pokemon tourneys
2)Same with Yu-gi-oh
3)Drawing contest
All.I can think of for now

http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=21326

story writing contest do a story writing contest

story writing contest do a story writing contest

I think some kind of art contest would be cool, be it story writing, drawing, whatever.

Debate Tourney?
Mud Wrestling?
Southperry Scavenger Hunt?
IRC chat with GMS GM's?

I support the idea of a scavenger hunt, make us go around our cities and take pictures of us doing silly things.

or you could do something similar to weffriddles. you should probably solve them for a few levels if you don't know what i mean.

I agree with Ben (chrome), a Maple-related story writing contest, like the one Nexon has failed to produce results for, would be fun.

IRC chat with GMS GM's?

This is not in our control.

or you could do something similar to weffriddles. you should probably solve them for a few levels if you don't know what i mean.

You just got me addicted to this. Dang you...

or you could do something similar to weffriddles. you should probably solve them for a few levels if you don't know what i mean.

This this this, oh please, this.

I'm 1upping the Pokemon tourney. I could help you with the OU and UU stuff .

Even though this is a Maplestory forum...

I could do riddles.
I mean, I did do All of [URL="http://www.basilmarket.com/forum/2023039/0/Its_RIDDLE_TIME_IV.html]these[/URL], plus a couple more.
I'd be up for that, if you guys want.

This this this, oh please, this.

Couldn't get passed the instructions.

Possibly another banner contest or one of the suggested writing contests.

I'm 1upping the Pokemon tourney. I could help you with the OU and UU stuff .

Even though this is a Maplestory forum...

This could just as well be on Forum Games. I'd participate for sure (and fail greatly).

What happened to the results of that Southperry Q&A?

 For anyone who actually cares

Donation Related Questions

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2nd:
I'd Like to help southperry money wise but I'm not a fan of the current payment options. I click the ads but I'm not even sure that helps, anyways will there be new options to donate to southperry?

Ads are the single best revenue source the site has. Clicking them definitely helps.
Purchasing any items you get from Amazon.com via the Southperry referral link so we get 6% is probably your second best chance to contribute. Even unregistered users/lurkers can do that and no information about you is shared with the site, keeping it anonymous. The only downside is you also can't be rewarded for doing it.
At this time there are no plans for other ways, if you have any ideas suggest them because everything we've considered has failed to get interest.
The biggest problem with finding ways to contribute is that the number of people who actually can/will/want to contribute is so small its more time and effort to create ways than they are ever likely to earn. (see #6)

6th:
Do moderators have any bias by infracting nondonators over donators?
Or is there any rule over that? I don't mean one time $5 donators, I mean consistent donators that really help to keep the site alive.

I'm effectively the only one who can see who's donated how much, so no. That's not a bias they're capable of.
That aside, there's also no one who does any such thing. There have only been 46 donations via the market since it's inception.
35% of those occurred the week of my disaster and another 30% the week the market opened. Keep in mind also that the total raised there was only ~200.
Donations are definitely not a massive source of income. Some people are very generous but as far microtransactions go they're only profitible in huge quantities and that is something we just don't have/get.

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WeekStart	Bans	Warnings	Infractions	Threads	Posts	Blogs	SocialGroupPosts	KarmaPurchases	MarketTransactions
2010-11-14	3	0	3	319	6512	8	1	13	236
2010-11-21	3	0	3	342	6158	18	12	3	171
2010-11-28	1	0	1	344	6946	16	9	1	58
2010-12-05	1	0	1	526	9024	10	3	0	16
2010-12-12	2	0	2	410	6993	10	0	0	16
2010-12-19	2	0	1	438	6698	7	3	2	11
2010-12-26	0	0	0	415	5599	4	0	3	20
2011-01-02	0	0	0	376	5267	6	0	0	6
2011-01-09	4	0	4	425	6106	13	2	1	18
2011-01-16	0	0	0	407	6838	15	4	0	9
2011-01-23	1	0	1	346	5657	13	0	1	8
2011-01-30	0	0	0	381	5987	7	4	1	3
2011-02-06	1	0	1	349	5178	12	5	0	0
2011-02-13	0	0	0	292	5141	13	2	0	4
2011-02-20	0	0	1	427	6434	18	26	0	2
2011-02-27	0	0	0	329	6293	13	24	1	8
2011-03-06	1	0	1	383	6081	13	23	0	3
2011-03-13	0	0	0	299	5341	13	5	0	0
2011-03-20	0	0	0	305	5180	4	13	0	3
2011-03-27	1	7	3	301	5191	11	21	1	4
2011-04-03	0	8	3	284	4622	12	7	1	4
2011-04-10	0	9	1	278	5011	11	28	0	2
2011-04-17	1	3	2	294	5343	18	51	0	0
2011-04-24	1	3	4	308	6290	12	68	16	87
2011-05-01	2	5	7	309	6200	16	88	1	1
2011-05-08	2	7	7	301	6226	11	32	0	14
2011-05-15	1	4	5	269	5992	15	19	0	15
2011-05-22	0	7	5	258	5294	10	30	0	14
2011-05-29	3	19	15	285	5313	10	11	0	8
2011-06-05	2	5	5	250	5428	8	16	1	3
2011-06-12	3	11	7	285	5485	6	53	0	5
Total	35	88	83	10535	183828	353	560	46	749

Obscenity Related Questions

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3rd:
This is a completely serious question, and I swear I'm not pulling your leg.
I'm pretty sure I heard someone say I can't post pictures of shirtless men. Is this true?

http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=1#Obscenity

[faq]rr_obscenity[/faq]

Key point being "in any degree of undress, including but not limited to bathing suits, or in a manner that sexualizes or eroticizes them."

8th:
If an anthropormorphic something or other is normally undressed, is it against the rules to post them at all?
Example:

If they're not anatomically anthroporphic and not being sexualized or eroticized in any way, including implication.

Sailor Moon's transform scene is normally undressed, but being anatomical would be a violation.
Winnie-The-Pooh is pantsless naturally but not anatomical and would be acceptible providing he's not being sexualized in some way.

Feature Related Questions

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5th:
The site gets most of its traffic when new extractions are available.
Would the amount of registered users go up if it was only for members? Would the traffic go down because of the hassle to sign up? Those 100 guests could become regular members? Just something i always thought of asking.

If extractions were only available to registered users we'd have less traffic, not more registered users.
The extractions as you say are what lure people in, making them more available makes them a better lure. To grow we have to put our goods out where they can be seen.

Not to be mean but registered users are not particularly valuable, compared to unregistered users. Registration is mostly a convenience for the user, letting them change how they interact with the site, and letting them communicate with each other for the particularly social ones.
The site gets virtually nothing out of you registering here, unless you happen to donate, but we get far more money from ads than donations.

Here's some data for the curious;

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LogDate	UnReg	Reg	Grand Total	% Reg		LogDate	UnReg	Reg	Grand Total	% Reg
2011-05-01	55935	13997	69932	20%		2011-05-01	6693	809	7502	11%
2011-05-02	49251	15237	64488	24%		2011-05-02	6025	856	6881	12%
2011-05-03	47438	13044	60482	22%		2011-05-03	5889	818	6707	12%
2011-05-04	54739	12590	67329	19%		2011-05-04	6214	846	7060	12%
2011-05-05	72675	13292	85967	15%		2011-05-05	6109	836	6945	12%
2011-05-06	60191	15579	75770	21%		2011-05-06	5983	854	6837	12%
2011-05-07	43937	14115	58052	24%		2011-05-07	6723	827	7550	11%
2011-05-08	66457	16888	83345	20%		2011-05-08	6820	856	7676	11%
2011-05-09	54892	19661	74553	26%		2011-05-09	5310	870	6180	14%
2011-05-10	50026	13476	63502	21%		2011-05-10	5479	825	6304	13%
2011-05-11	64563	13496	78059	17%		2011-05-11	5620	812	6432	13%
2011-05-12	55316	12070	67386	18%		2011-05-12	5701	783	6484	12%
2011-05-13	46729	11682	58411	20%		2011-05-13	5837	792	6629	12%
2011-05-14	44746	11215	55961	20%		2011-05-14	6651	770	7421	10%
2011-05-15	46027	11053	57080	19%		2011-05-15	7020	805	7825	10%
2011-05-16	51342	15082	66424	23%		2011-05-16	6902	866	7768	11%
2011-05-17	93536	16625	110161	15%		2011-05-17	7063	904	7967	11%
2011-05-18	67051	14344	81395	18%		2011-05-18	7506	889	8395	11%
2011-05-19	68415	18578	86993	21%		2011-05-19	9585	904	10489	9%
2011-05-20	60044	15714	75758	21%		2011-05-20	8036	872	8908	10%
2011-05-21	77108	19694	96802	20%		2011-05-21	8075	808	8883	9%
2011-05-22	93793	16440	110233	15%		2011-05-22	8601	772	9373	8%
2011-05-23	64220	17950	82170	22%		2011-05-23	8003	775	8778	9%
2011-05-24	63172	14468	77640	19%		2011-05-24	7937	699	8636	8%
2011-05-25	76358	13083	89441	15%		2011-05-25	10159	549	10708	5%
Grand Total	1527961	369373	1897334	19%		Grand Total	173941	20397	194338	10%

Left set is hits, right set is unique IP addresses.

So registered users make up about 20% of traffic but only 10% of unique sources of traffic.
Or another way, registered users are about twice as active as unregistered, but a drop in the bucket.
At best registered users are an incremental credit to the site based on the volume of traffic generated reading their material but most registered users are lurkers, not posters (see chart below).

UnderTen	AboveTen	AboveFifty	AboveHundred	AboveFiveHundred	AboveThousand
6294	874	257	451	109	95

Which again is 22% of registered users who have posted more than 10 things, ever.

7th: (the only reason I even posted this one was because maybe we should let users know who to contact for such things?)

Question: I know a mathematical formula which MapleStory-users of Southperry may/will have use for.
I have programmed it and it runs fast (i.e. it will not burn resources) - or I have made the program client-sided.
I do not wish for any credit, though I want the formula to stay on this website only.
Who do I contact, and what is the requirements for formulas (so I do not waste anyone's time), if any?

Formulas belong in the Game Mechanics section of the forum.
http://www.southperry.net/forumdisplay.php?f=9037

Calculators for formulas are handled on a case by case basis. Client sided calculators are frowned upon unless they're open source or an interpreted language like python/vbscript/jscript.

For any functional content you want to contribute to the site you should PM the site owner to discuss feasibility, terms, issues and options.

Miscellaneous questions

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1st:
a) What's with the word filters?
b) Am I allowed to bypass them?
c) Is cursing allowed in general?
d) Why is there a chinchilla, pineapple, goggles and toast emoticons?

a) They amused Fiel and became part of the local sub-culture. They're effectively inside-jokes.
b) There is no penalty for bypassing them other than looking gormless. Clever users actually know what to type to swear effectively & clearly when they want to.
c) There is no profanity restriction provided you do not flame someone or wander into obscenity. The full [thread=1]list of rules can be viewed here.[/thread]
d) They amused us.

4th:
What do you use to extract MapleStory wz. files and is there a guide to use it or something?
And will Nexon ban you for this?

Fiel designed his own system for extractions. It's not a publicly available tool. You can search the internet for public extraction utilities and code but should be wary of potential viruses and worse.
Nexon can not ban you for extracting their file info, they have no way of knowing you've done it. If you try modifying your .wz files you can and most likely will get banned for it. Reading them is perfectly fine.