Post by Gelquie on Sept 28, 2010 17:01:49 GMT -5
Spirit Week Schedule:
No changes are to occur until after midnight, NST. (Or PST, in other words; they're the same.)
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Hey guys, you remember this sort of thing?!
...No?
Well, it's NTWF Spirit Weeks! We've had two of them before, one in 2008 and the other in 2009. You can go ahead to read through them to try to get more of the idea, or anything I may have missed here.
Basically, it's the time of year where participants dress up their profiles to match a set fitting theme for a set number of weeks. Kind of similar to some public school's spirit weeks. For those who don't know, it involves dressing up for a certain theme to keep school spirit up. Actually, it's mostly just a fun dress-up thing.
And now here, we can show NTWF pride!
...Well, you can be prideful if you want, but it's mostly just dress-up fun. ^^
Okay, basically, for a set number of days (I'm thinking maybe 3, maybe 4; for this example, we'll use 3), we will have one set theme. For example, say the theme is Heroes. Then you pick a hero and dress up your profile to imitate that hero! (Imitating the hero in your posts is completely optional, but can be fun.) You'll keep your profile like that for three days. Then, after that third day, there will be another theme. Say it's Villains. After the clock strikes 12, you'll change your profile again, but this time, you'll dress up as a villain. And so on and so forth until we've gone through about maybe 5 changes.
Now, you've probably guessed from this example that the timing can be confusing. And yes, it can be, so I'll clarify things a bit here. One thing: we will run the timing off of NST/PST (Neopian/Pacific Standard Time), since the majority of us are familiar with that time the most. So the minute midnight strikes onto the day of the next theme, that's when you can change your profiles. Now I'll have a strict rule here: You cannot change your profile to the new theme before then! This is to prevent confusion and people jumping the gun. However, you won't be required to change your profile exactly at midnight; just sometime during the day is fine, as long as it's on that day.
Okay then, I think that covers most of it. The first thing we'll need to figure out is themes. I'll need a list of suggestions, and when we get a sizable list, I'll start a poll, and we'll vote on the 5 themes we'll use.
For variety's sake, I'm going to strongly suggest that we not use the themes we used in previous years. There are many, many themes out there, and if we just used the same ones over and over again, it gets repetitive. But there are still plenty of fun ones left; trust me.
For the themes that we used last year, see the two links linking to previous Spirit Weeks. Posting them again: 2008 and 2009.
However, if there was a theme suggested in previous years that wasn't used, go ahead and suggest it again.
Anyway, I think that's it.
It's now time to vote for your favorite themes! I think we have enough votes, except for the tie-breaker. Got them all! Thanks!
We also need to decide what day we're doing this. We're deciding that now.
EDIT: How does December 4th sound? Any objections?
EDIT: Spirit Weeks is over! Thanks for participating!
- Theme 1: Saturday Dec. 4 - Tuesday Dec. 7: Tropes/Archetypes
- Theme 2: Wednesday Dec. 8 - Saturday Dec. 11: Animated/Drawn Characters
- Theme 3: Sunday Dec. 12 - Wednesday Dec. 15: Periodic Table of Elements
- Theme 4: Thursday Dec. 16 - Sunday Dec. 19: Historical Figures
- Theme 5: Monday Dec. 20 - Thursday Dec. 23: NTWF Lore/Characters/etc
No changes are to occur until after midnight, NST. (Or PST, in other words; they're the same.)
----
Hey guys, you remember this sort of thing?!
...No?
Well, it's NTWF Spirit Weeks! We've had two of them before, one in 2008 and the other in 2009. You can go ahead to read through them to try to get more of the idea, or anything I may have missed here.
Basically, it's the time of year where participants dress up their profiles to match a set fitting theme for a set number of weeks. Kind of similar to some public school's spirit weeks. For those who don't know, it involves dressing up for a certain theme to keep school spirit up. Actually, it's mostly just a fun dress-up thing.
And now here, we can show NTWF pride!
...Well, you can be prideful if you want, but it's mostly just dress-up fun. ^^
Okay, basically, for a set number of days (I'm thinking maybe 3, maybe 4; for this example, we'll use 3), we will have one set theme. For example, say the theme is Heroes. Then you pick a hero and dress up your profile to imitate that hero! (Imitating the hero in your posts is completely optional, but can be fun.) You'll keep your profile like that for three days. Then, after that third day, there will be another theme. Say it's Villains. After the clock strikes 12, you'll change your profile again, but this time, you'll dress up as a villain. And so on and so forth until we've gone through about maybe 5 changes.
Now, you've probably guessed from this example that the timing can be confusing. And yes, it can be, so I'll clarify things a bit here. One thing: we will run the timing off of NST/PST (Neopian/Pacific Standard Time), since the majority of us are familiar with that time the most. So the minute midnight strikes onto the day of the next theme, that's when you can change your profiles. Now I'll have a strict rule here: You cannot change your profile to the new theme before then! This is to prevent confusion and people jumping the gun. However, you won't be required to change your profile exactly at midnight; just sometime during the day is fine, as long as it's on that day.
Okay then, I think that covers most of it. The first thing we'll need to figure out is themes. I'll need a list of suggestions, and when we get a sizable list, I'll start a poll, and we'll vote on the 5 themes we'll use.
For variety's sake, I'm going to strongly suggest that we not use the themes we used in previous years. There are many, many themes out there, and if we just used the same ones over and over again, it gets repetitive. But there are still plenty of fun ones left; trust me.
For the themes that we used last year, see the two links linking to previous Spirit Weeks. Posting them again: 2008 and 2009.
However, if there was a theme suggested in previous years that wasn't used, go ahead and suggest it again.
Anyway, I think that's it.
We also need to decide what day we're doing this. We're deciding that now.
EDIT: How does December 4th sound? Any objections?
EDIT: Spirit Weeks is over! Thanks for participating!
I support pretty much all of these ideas. *tries to think of additional things*
