Official Rules
1. You must have at least 50 posts to enter and vote.
2. Your signature must not be pre-made.
3. Your signature must follow the assigned theme.
4. Your signature must be your own work. If you are asked to prove the authenticity of your entry, you must do so.
5. Your signature must include your name in some way, shape, or form.
6. Your signature must be of a reasonable size (rectangular in shape with a maximum width of 555px and a maximum height of 400px). If you are asked to resize your signature, you must do so.
7. You may only post one entry in one post, and any further changes to your entry must be posted in replacement of your original entry. All changes made to any post other than your original entry post will be ignored.
8. You may not vote for yourself in the voting thread.
9. If you are caught voting multiple times in the voting thread, you will receive a one-week suspension from the SOTW (including voting).
10. If you are proven guilty of stealing a signature, you will receive a one-week suspension from SOTW. If you are caught two more times following the first, you're banned indefinitely from SOTW.

Failure to adhere to any of these rules will result in the disqualification of your entry.

This week's theme is... Free Range Photo Manipulation.

YOU MUST POST YOUR ORIGINAL PICTURE IN A SPOILER.

The deadline is this Friday at 5:59 PM (PST)

Good luck!

OH YES I'M ENTERING THIS ONE

[spoiler] Not [/spoiler]

HEY KRISTAN! CHECK OUT MY POST IN THE SOTW THEME POLL!

might as well rename this ****** appreciation

Didn't DrakeN appreciation win?

Draken Appreciation got 22 votes. Your shitty no theme got 15.

Your group of friends don't own SOTW either.

Yes...by 22 votes. Kristan wanted her theme to be the sotw though, so she completely ignored the poll.

Well the votes said they wanted draken appreciation.

More than our 'group of friends' voted for DrakeN Appreciation as the theme. I really do feel that this thread belongs to Boxiom. He brought it here until people took complete control of it. I think he should have more of a say in what the theme should be.


Kristan didn't like that theme though.

No body should have a full say in what the theme should be. And I didn't appreciate you editing the poll with a theme you and your friends wanted. You know last week was a complete failure. Why do all of you insist on dragging in your pointless themes? You can very well use any of Draken's pictures for this theme, so why are you complaining?

To be honest, he just added the theme. 22 people voted for it.

Draken Apprectiation is a fucking homo theme. It has little to do with graphical abilities at all, and chances are it will be a bunch of crap entries like the last SOTW was.

In fairness, it won.

In fairness, the poll should not have been edited and the SOTW should be fair to the entire forum.

I'm complaining because I find it complete bullshit that you make a theme poll, and you don't even use the winning theme. What's the point of having a poll? I edited it in because you shouldn't be the only one who should get to decide what the themes should be.

And yes, this is Boxiom's idea, so he should be in charge.

It amazes me how immature the vent clique is.

EDIT: fix'd.

I find it bullshit that you had the nerve to edit the poll. Not to accuse, but how do I know you didn't edit the 22 votes in as well? For the record, I didn't pull those themes out of my ass. Those were all suggestions by members.

WHAT A CLICHE RESPONSE!

Cliche?

This is pathetic. You enter in the most fail choice of all time that wasn't supposed to be in it anyway. Only like 10 people want it. It would have failed even more than Duran Appreciation

Is that even possible, to edit in votes?

Yes.

They edited in the choice of draken appreciation.

I AM SO GLAD YOU INFORMED ME, I HAD NO IDEA WHAT ALL THIS ARGUING WAS FOR.

Robbie only added in the option, he didn't edit any votes.

Ask Anthony to check the moderating logs on the poll. I only changed 2 votes because Gripster and Melanie wanted to change their initial votes from Other, to DrakeN Appreciation.

And DrakeN Appreciation was also suggested by members. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's not a valid theme.

I'll see what Anthony thinks about the draken theme. This is ridiculous.

Smosh is Russia, Antwon is Stalin.

Draken appreciation would be a funny theme, I'm not denying that. I'm arguing on behalf of the rest of smosh, who don't know who Draken is. I wouldn't expect someone who joined a week ago to know him. That's the problem here. The SOTW is a forum competition. Not a "friends of ______ competition."

This theme is free range manipulation. There is nothing in the rules saying you can't use a Draken picture and edit it. I don't understand why everyone is so against this theme if you can all very well use Draken in your signature.

I want to see what he thinks about the vent cliche. To me, it's ridiculous that Kristan is allowed to decide what makes a proper theme and what doesn't. DrakeN Appreciation obviously got more votes, so people obviously preferred it over the other retarded themes.

I'm not even mad about you not choosing the theme, I am annoyed that you had the audacity to accuse rob of faking all the votes, when all he did was add a fun joke theme to the list.

90% of the people who wanted a Duran appreciation didn't enter. Why should the theme only appeal to those who don't even fucking enter?


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I doubt that someone would be able to rack up 100 posts in a week just to enter in SOTW. And it's not like people can't participate, they just choose not to. You don't have to know DrakeN to make a signature of him. You just need a picture.

And obviously there was a portion of smosh that voted for DrakeN Appreciation. You don't seem to care about them. Last time I checked, they were part of the forum.

Ok Kristin, everyone is taking in what you are saying; yet the fact of the matter is that this theme got more votes. This is possibly more so a case of your annoyance one of these themes from this 'clique' was favoured over the others you seen as more suiting to the contest. You know what, peopel may not know who draken is, but people might not have experience with photo manipulation or fashion either. I'll quote yourself in saying

This is a forum competition

And you know what? The forum voted for that theme, not one of the others.

This forum would be nothing without the vent cliche. Without us, the forum would collapse into a black hole that would consume and destroy the world. Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. What I mean is Old Testament shit... real Wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers and seas boiling, 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos, the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!"

While SOTW ought not to be run by anyone in particular, it has become clear that some people are simply not fit to have their way.

Boxiom brought SOTW to Smosh. It was a solid idea that needed polishing, and Boxiom stood in the way of any change because of his strangle-hold over the competition. Just to quote myself because I don't feel like retyping it:


I took charge of changing SOTW, but it was Smosh itself that provided input that led to the Official Format and Rules that now govern SOTW. Now whenever a change is needed, Smosh has the power to carry out that change. This wasn't possible under Boxiom's reign.

Things have run relatively smoothly the past 50 weeks...until now.

Now we have this small faction that intends to make SOTW something less about Smosh and something more about their own small faction. They got their way last week, despite the better judgment of the wiser, more experienced SOTW regulars who predicted they would fail, and lo and behold, their experiment was a disaster, ranking, by my estimation, as the worst week SOTW has ever seen.

To think that this same small faction, who aren't all that involved with SOTW to begin with, have the balls to ignore last week and suggest a nearly identical theme this week makes me think that their goal is not only to get their way, but to bring SOTW to its knees.

A line needs to be drawn.

If you must see it this way, then see it this way: you got your way last week, let us have our way this week.

You wanted your 'appreciation' theme with Duran, and you got it. You said yourselves that it was just 'for the lulz' and then things would go back to normal. Now you want Draken Appreciation. What about next week? Is this going to turn into Appreciation of the Week? This is ruining SOTW, which was going fine until last week.

Gripster, that is completely untrue. I know for a fact most of us would post more if you guys didn't clique up the place.

This is true. I have never been able to enter Photo Manipulation for this reason. If you want SOTW to be fair for everyone on the forum, then your options are very limited.

Look in the Duran entry thread. I bet I can find you a few posts from usual participants complaining about the theme. You (not you specifically, those who are fighting for a draken theme) are all acting as if you ARE the forum and ONLY your opinion matters. Last week my legit entry thread was deleted and replaced by the Duran theme. Can you honestly say that was fair to the rest of the forum?

Last week, I could have sworn someone said "it's not like we want this every week, just give us this ONE week!" Or something along those lines.

This SOTW theme is a good idea. Clique based joke SOTW themes are not.

Any legitimate theme will naturally favor some more than others. That's simply the way it goes.

You cannot possibly compare Photo Manipulation to Duran or DrakeN Appreciation in terms of how they limit sigmaking. Duran Appreciation got 9 entries, while I know Photo Manipulation has had more than 40 in the past.

Yes everything has returned to normal and the duran theme was for the lulz, fact of the matter is that this time something got the most votes and kristin completely dictated what would be our theme; so i ask: What is the point in a theme poll if Kristin will not accept a theme she does not deem worthy?

EDIT:
Goddamnit antwon, it got the most votes and that poll wa sa representation of the forums choice.
Fucking accept sometimes you win and lose.

Thank you.

I think we need to all need to calm down and talk about what's really important: Ghostbusters is a great fucking movie.

They're making a fucking game. The Stay Puft man looks better in the game than it did in the movie.

I just looked it up and almost creamed my pants at how awesome it looks. All the original voice actors!

Agreed

The fucking physics engine looks remarkable as well.