I'm not sure if i originated the Idea for NES challenges, I don't know if i did, I do know i had the idea, and i posted it here before it was made. Glad it's popular it's a good idea whoever put it all together.

I like this idea as well, i don't think it'll be as popular but i think people will participate if you organize it well.

I think you can have ideas submitted, but i think someone officially, perhaps you, picks an idea from those posted, and says alright we're doing this one. you quote the person etc... and then after a week or so you close it and pick another. That way you have some consistency and people can be doing the same challenge during the same week. Maybe not have a overall scoring system, but just say who completed each challenge the best, and list everyone, but no points, just a one time recognition then onto next challenge.

I think challenges are just more fun when you're competing.. people are curious if they can do better than others or how high they can rank, or whatever.. all that jazz. Those are what I'd propose.

Then Syd can give special priveledge on the site to those who complete these challenges, since it encourages community invovlement, and will make his site more livley, which increases traffic and welcome new comers. Who are like wow this site has alot of active people... a lot of neat stuff goes on.. i'll stay.

The people that participate in these Official Forum Events (OFEs) can get special font colors for text, or perhaps the Title: under their username.. will glow.

This could also back fire cause jealousy, and people flaunting (oh i have glowy text yadda yadda yadda) if done right it would encourage community growth and involvement. Some parts just think I like people doing it naturally. It's just like post count.. people will do it. and these perks are actually more useful than Ha i have 300k posts.

I see what you're saying. That makes a lot of sense to do longer single challenges in that way, of which, RPG challenges are a good example.

I tried to look back to see if i could find my post on challenges. And I found one. But it's very raw. Basically I recommended their be competition of any sort, playing off people's interest here in the community. One example I gave at the time was to have everyone submit a comic book character anonomously, A drawing with a brief back story.. then their placed into brackets adn posted two at a time each week. And forum members vote each week, and then eventually there will be a winner. It wasn't directly NES challenges, it was more recurring challenges/competitions in general that i submitted. I tried to see if i had any more specific examples in other older post of mind and i couldn't find any.