#me when i love a system and being professional witnessing a poll mod having a breakdown over someone saying a joke insult in tags :|

[kneworder]

not to be like mean or smug or annoying bc i do mean this in the nicest way possible but some people who run brackets are absolutely not meant for it. pulling 'i will not tolerate people being mean in the tags. that's so rude' (they are talking about when someone said 'what tf is wrong with you........' in a poll with a tough matchup). rbing pages and pages of unrelated stuff or other polls with their opinions as though people following the bracket care about anything besides the bracket. like just make a sideblog and only post polls. people are gonna say shit in the tags idk what to tell you. it's more work than you think it's gonna be but i thought the basics were pretty clear. like i know it's not that serious at all and this is a silly thing for me to try to criticize i just keep seeing poll mods having like full on meltdowns or posting shit i do not care about after i follow them for the bracket and i feel like we can save ourselves a lot of grief by being cool about shit. idk. do an absurd amount of seeding and graphics-making in a fevered frenzy becoming simultaneously over-invested in your own poll and desperate to keep the bracket itself as fair and professional as possible to give yourself something to feel in control of and ignore your own deteriorating mental health over the course of like two or three weeks like the rest of us.

#me when i love a system and being professional witnessing a poll mod having a breakdown over someone saying a joke insult in tags :| #you've given yourself a job not made a bunch of new friends? #if you need to complain talk about it on your main?? don't make it your followers' problem? #idk maybe if i'd run a bracket where people sent in contestants i'd understand #like the episode bracket was pretty clean plus most of us voters were bound together by shared community #(<- oppression of the lowly sam stan in the spn community) #guess im just always shocked by people getting genuinely mad at their voters and im also annoyed by a clogged bracket blog #controversial take the 'propaganda' thing is annoying i am not voting if i havent heard of these characters my decision will be Informed #(<- hates fun and takes polls too seriously and should be taken with a grain of salt at all times) #im also high rn though i would not be sharing these thoughts sober even though i think them often <3