kdpierre:
Well there you go. EVERY comment containing a criticism of the challenges was respectful and genuine in taking something that authors enjoy and improving it.
No-one has said the comments were disrespectful so this is simply a misleading straw man argument.
The suggestions have all been made previously and I disagree, for reasons which I have already articulated on more than one occasion, that any of them constitute improvements.
kdpierre:
Many were quite logical in pointing out scoring flaws.
I assume that you either haven't read what I posted in 2012 or simply choose to ignore it but there is no ideal scoring system, they are all flawed which is why it's utterly pointless obsessing over it.
kdpierre:
Not one person said to eliminate the challenges. Not one. And yet, because authors had the audacity to suggest that the scoring be changed or eliminated.........which would certainly have achieved the result bemoaned as lost, that is having winning not be important.......we have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Amazing.
Another straw man argument. We decided to discontinue the challenges as six years of listening to moaning about how the challenges are run is quite enough. Not one person asked for the challenges to be eliminated as you say but then I also don't remember us asking for suggested changes to the challenges every time we have one.