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Post by downrightdude on Jan 27, 2024 18:15:17 GMT -5
SAME tho, I've been sitting on top of an unfinished series since 2018 and I promised to myself that I wouldn't make any more comics until I get that thing done and submitted @n@ I either do things on a burst of enthusiasm or I don't get them done for yeeeears. should probably go dump it in work reviews and drum up some thoughts. I need to make it to 200 submissions! I've been stuck at 176 for a millennium; now's the time to FINALLY reach my next milestone and be even more iconic!
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Post by Kengplant on Jan 27, 2024 19:33:58 GMT -5
Throughout the leadup to 1k being published I've been keeping a count of known submissions via spreadsheet. Final numbers under the cut. They feel kinda frustrating comparing them to the final publish numbers, hence the spoiler, but I'm saving them here because I think in the future they'll be an interesting set of stats to look back on. NT 1000 KNOWN SUBMISSIONS COUNT FINAL
Comics: 88 Article: 37 short: 30 series: 8 n/a: 22
Total: 185 Unique Submitters/Groups: 157
pending: 9
N/A means a submission has been reported but the kind of submission has not. Pending means people have reported they've started working on it.
This count is based on counting publicly announced submissions on the neoboards, and offsite. I've avoided double counting as best I can, but usernames don't always match.
Added in published entrants that weren't on the list.
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DOUBLE SUBMIT COUNT
The following counts number of multiple entries from a single group. Kinda.
Eg. If someone submit 1 article and 1 comic, that would be +1 to the count for both articles and comics for double submits. If someone submit 2 comics though it would only be +1 to comics
What this means: We wouldn't have a known maximum of 88 comics that COULD be published, because people can't be published twice.
Comics: 9 Articles: 7 Shorts: 5 Series: 2 n/a: 1
Assuming I haven't double counted anyone across platforms, there were 18 published entries that weren't on my known list of submitters.
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Post by Huntress on Jan 28, 2024 5:54:14 GMT -5
Throughout the leadup to 1k being published I've been keeping a count of known submissions via spreadsheet. Final numbers under the cut. They feel kinda frustrating comparing them to the final publish numbers, hence the spoiler, but I'm saving them here because I think in the future they'll be an interesting set of stats to look back on. Ooh, I've always found those statistics fascinating, partly because we never really get that information properly. So very broadly speaking every third entry got published in every category (statistically skewed by howevermany sent entries without saying anything about it anywhere - uh, someone could just ask Adler how many entries are sent in for every issue, though?) At times like these I always like to roll out the interview I did with Droplet back in 2007 for the collab article I did with Dan for issue 300. I asked Droplet how many entries she gets per week and the numbers she told me are what landed in the article - 500-1,000 comics, 300-400 short stories and articles and some 40 new continued series every week. That was for regular issues, so I can only imagine what happened for special issues (the weewoo avatar was already a thing at the time, but special issues were pretty uncommon compared to weekly regular issues and you did get prizes for those special issues, but it was such a new concept that it wasn't at all common knowledge and never especially expected). That same issue 300 was about twice as big as a regular issue was and still is. Competition used to be absolutely mind-bogglingly insane, is my point, and also why the waiting period to hear back from the editor was as long as it was. The odds of getting into issue 300 were broadly speaking around 1:40 and the odds of getting into issue 1000 were broadly speaking around 1:3.
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Post by Stephanie (swordlilly) on Jan 28, 2024 14:43:52 GMT -5
I asked Droplet how many entries she gets per week and the numbers she told me are what landed in the article - 500-1,000 comics, 300-400 short stories and articles and some 40 new continued series every week. That was for regular issues, so I can only imagine what happened for special issues (the weewoo avatar was already a thing at the time, but special issues were pretty uncommon compared to weekly regular issues and you did get prizes for those special issues, but it was such a new concept that it wasn't at all common knowledge and never especially expected). That same issue 300 was about twice as big as a regular issue was and still is. Competition used to be absolutely mind-bogglingly insane, is my point, and also why the waiting period to hear back from the editor was as long as it was. The odds of getting into issue 300 were broadly speaking around 1:40 and the odds of getting into issue 1000 were broadly speaking around 1:3. I think it isn't so much the number of rejected entries but the lack of an official reason for why they got rejected that feels frustrating. Some of the rejected entries I know of are very good. Melanie (surging) had a series and a short story in the system. Here's some of her previous work: www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=589341&week=991www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=588499&week=982Like... she's not a bad writer. She's made contributions to the community too; she makes Neoboard fonts on Sunnyneo. The only reason I can think of for why she didn't get into issue 1000 is simply that the editor didn't get to her entry when digging through the submission-mountain. Which isn't the editor's fault, but from the perspective of a player it feels bad nonetheless. Right now, it just feels like there's a lack of staff hours, which translates into a lack of care from the players' perspective. When you put your submission into the system, it could get coldly deleted at any time and you'll never know why. The only thing you can do is to keep trying and hope that you strike the lottery next time. I really miss when the NT had a dedicated, full-time editor. That said, I am grateful that the NT is still around in any shape at all and understand that the shortage of care is due to budget issues.
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Post by Serene on Jan 28, 2024 15:33:44 GMT -5
I asked Droplet how many entries she gets per week and the numbers she told me are what landed in the article - 500-1,000 comics, 300-400 short stories and articles and some 40 new continued series every week. That was for regular issues, so I can only imagine what happened for special issues (the weewoo avatar was already a thing at the time, but special issues were pretty uncommon compared to weekly regular issues and you did get prizes for those special issues, but it was such a new concept that it wasn't at all common knowledge and never especially expected). That same issue 300 was about twice as big as a regular issue was and still is. Competition used to be absolutely mind-bogglingly insane, is my point, and also why the waiting period to hear back from the editor was as long as it was. The odds of getting into issue 300 were broadly speaking around 1:40 and the odds of getting into issue 1000 were broadly speaking around 1:3. I think it isn't so much the number of rejected entries but the lack of an official reason for why they got rejected that feels frustrating. Some of the rejected entries I know of are very good. Melanie (surging) had a series and a short story in the system. Here's some of her previous work: www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=589341&week=991www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=588499&week=982Like... she's not a bad writer. She's made contributions to the community too; she makes Neoboard fonts on Sunnyneo. The only reason I can think of for why she didn't get into issue 1000 is simply that the editor didn't get to her entry when digging through the submission-mountain. Which isn't the editor's fault, but from the perspective of a player it feels bad nonetheless. Right now, it just feels like there's a lack of staff hours, which translates into a lack of care from the players' perspective. When you put your submission into the system, it could get coldly deleted at any time and you'll never know why. The only thing you can do is to keep trying and hope that you strike the lottery next time. I really miss when the NT had a dedicated, full-time editor. That said, I am grateful that the NT is still around in any shape at all and understand that the shortage of care is due to budget issues. I couldn't help but feel like the calendar for Issue 1,000 was not well timed. Without a full time editor it was already going to be rough, but I can only imagine how swamped all of TNT was with the release of NCUC. I wonder if the release schedule had been tweaked so 1,000 was the first entry of the new year, if the editor would have had more time to comb through submissions. Of course, maybe it was just a decision made. I was disappointed that so many others with their amazing entries didn't get accepted. I would have loved to see Issue 1,000 be the biggest issue in the history of the NT to really celebrate how big of an achievement it is. All of that being said, I still have quite a few entries that did get accepted that I still need to check out. So at least I can be excited for that!
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Post by June Scarlet on Jan 29, 2024 20:22:17 GMT -5
If you do resubmit your 1000 NT piece for 1001, be sure and add stuff about loving the NT or something, because the theme is Valentines, and they're pretty strict about theming nowadays.
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Post by RielCZ on Jan 29, 2024 20:24:44 GMT -5
Rawr, you're right, though that makes revising it even less attractive admittedly. (Love and stats? What is such nonsense. )
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Post by downrightdude on Feb 1, 2024 18:33:18 GMT -5
My entry finally got the TMGE response.
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