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I wonder if theymos will ever come up with the same idea from the last year's "10th anniversary art contest (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5193860.0)" ? Well, a decade is something to celebrate for, I just want to reminisce how we've seen such talented forum members during that event and it's been year now.

Last year's anniversary art contest was superb and a lot of fun. As far as I know, last year art contest is the first official contest of the forum which managed by theymos.
So, for me, I am expecting some contest again but not expecting too much just like last year (who knows?) since the 10 years anniversary is kinda significant and special.
Maybe there will be some help now of some administrator of the forum which they can help theymos for managing some contest again.
I am happy to see again some contest.

Oh boy I remember that thread. It's that thread where a lot of people received their first big chunks of merits LOL.

Members that are waiting for that new merit opportunity be like:

https://media0.giphy.com/media/QoVS8sd4e84HC/200.gif

Can't deny the fact that I did and I'm grateful on that event. By the way, it's not that merit but theymos is way too generous he even rewarded people with BTC (that's observable on the OP of that thread).

I don't think there would be anything spectacular unlike last year since it's nothing like the first or second decade.

But still, an annual event like Halloween would be nice. Everyone's profile picture becomes a pumpkin.

We understand that this year it will not be the 10th bitcointalk anniversary, hence you will not find any massive campaign like the last year ones, but i still expect some sort of competition or contest maybe on a small scale as it is more interesting just displaying animations on the forum.

Last year the forum has its anniversary because it is for its tenth birthday and 10 year is a long period and deserves a big anniversary.

This year, the eleventh birthday does not have same importance so I don't bet on an anniversary this year. If there will be something as an anniversary, it will not be a new art contest.

The Bitcointalk art contest of 2019 remembers me some interesting works of art made by several people here, although I am not as lucky as those who get prizes from this forum, but it's fun.

So enthusiastic members at that time, by sacrificing treasure for carving for the Bitcointalk forum, it was a sign that all members here really love the Forum no matter how much it costs to make the best art work.

Today is October 18, 2020, it seems that @theymos, hasn't thought about Bitcointalk's birthday this time, like what 2019 did on October 17, maybe because of the pandemic, so a little is limited for each activity, especially birthdays.
Nonetheless, it looks interesting to look forward to what ideas the contest will make this year, if any.

Last year was an exception and we saw the greatest competition ever on bitcointalk. However can anyone tell what was implemented on 9th and previous anniversaries ?  I don't remember if anything was introduced on the past anniversaries of bitcointalk  ???

The celebration of the previous year was caused by the passage of 10 years since the launch of the forum and not an annual celebration, so I do not think that we will witness any activity this year.
You need to wait 9 years or even 14 years in order to see an event like the previous one, and then Bitcoin may have a great value or may not be worth anything.

Personally, I expected there would be more awards last year, but it was okay as an event.

Nothing that I know of. The new stuffs that were introduced weren't part of any anniversary.

When is the exact date of the Bitcointalk Anniversary?, this is the first time that I will experience this anniversary event the recent party that I attended is the bitcoin talk pizza party.
It looks like a merit spree party right here.
Also, this is good too there is a specific icon on the artist, I hope they add too like good in digital art, for sure one of the members will get this is Maus0728 and DevilSlayer.

Better wait for 9 more years if we are all alive and well for 20year anniversary.
I doubt there will be anything similar this year from theymos except maybe some special bitcointalk face masks, gloves and alcohol, and I don't mean we need that for party ;)

22nd November

I am very happy to see a lot of work that has been done by the members of this forum with a lot of thoughts and their contributions to help this forum improve and become more successful in the future, art contests then lots of great thoughts where many people work for the forum and that is done with pleasure, too generous for those participants who get more is that useful? of course also for me.

During the pandemic and the anniversary of this forum will come, I hope @theymos will hold another contest so that our boredom during the pandemic period will continue to be creative in building this forum to be popularized.

The 10th anniversary was an opportunity for all of us to know about some talented and creative artists.
The good feedbacks some users received, encouraged them to launch their own business. Therefore, I personally support organizing more events like that one.
It will be great if more contests will be organized by regular members without waiting for theymos to take the first step  :D

A decade was something special to celebrate and we can't consider 11th year as special like that. For this I think same like you, the next celebration may arrange at another special year like decades.

I wasn't active here during the time and don't even know that there was a celebration for ten year anniversary. Few months ago I noticed a user have painting brush icon under his name. Then I searched for it and found few user got the special badge for 10th year anniversary art contest. It is unique and shouldn't be arrange every year.

Having it done in a decade is quite a thing and I know, a lot of users would petronize this annual idea your projecting, i am experiencing an indicision to the subject but then, looking at the goodies that came with it, from the special tags awards, the merits and the sharing of one Bitcoin as a reward for creativity from forum users who participated.

Would it be idea to celebrate it annually because, of the goodies that came with it at first was quite much and I believe it would divert a lot of users attention towards waiting on it's next round when ever they loose a chance for a boost in where ever they might be lacking which could in a way have some effect on the forum.

can't wait for another merit boost. got early 20+merit from that contest.  ;)

he could hire extra manpower to run another contest like last year or something similar to that but in a smaller or minor way. although it would lessen the work he has to do but it would mean extra expenses.

That was celebrating 10 years of the forum journey; I guess there was no such celebration prior to the last one. Was there any? If not, then I guess theymos isn't going to celebrate the next anniversary as the last one.
If we can get a good committee for celebrating the anniversary including some other days etc; I guess we can have arranged them every year with some creative contest or some creative works.

Well, 10th anniversary art contest was something crazy. Many members showed how creative they are and created amazing artworks. On the other hand, there was so much shit and abuse. Nothing surprising, people were attracted by easy opportunity to get merit. And I'm actually not sure that theymos was happy that he made so much work for himself. I think it wasn't easy to get through all works and award so many merit :D
11th Bitcointalk birthday probably should be celebrated too somehow, but obviously not as big as 10th. IMO, repeating such contest again would be boring, we need something new. Maybe it's too early, but we can start to think how 15th or 20th anniversary should be celebrated :D.

Maybe, he could come up with the idea of giving bitcoins instead of merit this time.  ;D

If this kind of art contest will be established by Theymos it would have happened by now and I presume it will be another 10years before we can this kind of art contest happening again on the forum. Besides, not even this time that the was said to be in need of some fund a couple of weeks ago.

Yep, I remember that vividly--submissions were coming out of the woodwork by members who were obviously NOT qualified to submit any artwork to a contest, but that was only after they'd seen how generous Theymos was being with the merit distribution.  That's if I remember that part correctly, because I stopped following that thread after about 3 pages or so.

But I never objected to all that merit he sent out.  He certainly had accumulated a massive number of sMerits by that point, and I don't often see Theymos giving out a lot of merits. 

That was the 10 year celebration, and it was a nice landmark number and represented a decade of the forum being in existence.  I don't think we need yearly celebrations by any means.  Just my own little opinion, though.

Poor theymos, every time we expect something to be done, why not the community to create something and surprise him instead this time.
I think that would be cooler, he also deserves to have some fun and entertainment after all the hard work he has done for the forum.

Yea, same opinion. Giving chances to people isn't really that bad in terms of affecting the forum's content quality when done rarely, but doing it every year is probably going to have a bad effect. People would just be waiting for Bitcointalk's anniversaries if that was the case lol.

That is theymos benchmark to drive massive amounts of sMerit(9991 total merit) to all the participants. The 10th year anniversary promotion given users the chance to win BTC awards as well. I would say it's consistently one of the most impressive techniques and I don't never mind being held Bitcointalk.org anniversary by theymos once again.

The art competition showed how many talented people are among us. It was exciting. Many participants were able to raise their ranks, and someone tried to organize their own business, showing their art.
Today there is a lot of negative news in connection with the pandemic that has fallen on the world. A lot of people are depressed. I think by creating such contests, we will be able to escape from these negatives, as well as please ourselves and our friends with whom we communicate on the forum.
I think a comic book competition on the vital problems of the forum would raise the spirits of many.

Yeah, maybe something like meme focus contest, haikyu, poem, COVID vaccine (lol) etc., whatever theymos could think up but I agree it should be new and more exciting if ever he decides there will be another one.

Maybe something like quinquennial celebration would be nice but something like a decade is really a especial one to celebrate for.

Yeah, that's a good opinion but I wonder who would be the one to step up this time and what would it be. Guess it's surprise surprise.

Yes, I'm pretty sure we would keep them Bitcoins safe. ;D

LOL!

To be honest, that particular event of bitcoin and merit spree inspired me to pursue making digital drawings other than doing traditional artworks. It was that moment when someone posted a digital artwork of 10th Bitcointalk Anniversary contest with a spooky/ cyberpunk theme. If my mind serves me right, the artist was @1Dq.

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Well, instead of waiting another decade, Roobet is currently having their 4th Art Contest with various catergories to choose from -- I see it as another alternative though.

I don't think that the idea will be the same. As we know, everything needs something fresh every year here. So, why should be similar to the previous anniversary? Moreover, it was for the 10th anniversary, it may be so different from what happened to the 11th, 12., and other anniversaries.

However, I am also actually curious about what will happen and I really don't want to miss this anniversary as what I did previously. Let's wait for it and probably if we have any ideas, we can share each other here.

So bitcoiners are doing NFTs now?  ::)

Kiddings aside, seriously. I'm personally not a fan of NFTs(because I think selling/buying digital art makes no freakin sense), but some people are making bank selling NFTs on whatever sites they're using. If I was artistically blessed, I'd definitely take advantage of that opportunity and just sell the earned ETH for more BTC.

Anyway its a 10th anniversary so theymos probably do it since its a long duration to celebrate. Maybe this next event is something small or definitely none. Cant forget this event. I think Ive received some for my submissions leading to my ranking which is really make me glad.

Yeah agreed. Its better if there are new theme or contest if ever theymos launch something on thr anniversary. But its still okay if its an art contest, Im sure it will be swarm by a lot since then some followed the art contest like roobet did.

I don't really have any idea of how NFT's work..but yeah I am selling commissioned digital and traditional artwork as advertised in the Marketplace Section to pay for my tuition fees.

Selling digital artwork might look like pointless in other people's perspective especially if it's just a drawing of some sort of anime or iconic figures since they can be easily reproduced. However, nowadays there is a free licensing agreement which you can use to limit the buyers rights on how they are going to use your personal artwork. Also, I am selling commissioned portrait commonly of their loved ones so getting a free licensing agreement is not an issue.

Their reward is in BTC  :D

Perhaps theymos is silently trying to "finish the development for our new forum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5206998.msg55381580#msg55381580)" so he could surprise us 8)
_{- I believe this one is better ;)}

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On a serious note:

• I'm one of the few that really like if there will be a similar contest to last year's anniversary contest since "I never got the chance to unleash my creativity (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5203814.msg53168148#msg53168148)" but I rather see new features being introduced.

I must admit that anniversary contest was fun (I also participated with two submissions)  but having it organized that way every year would somehow diminish its value. Maybe best to stick to every 10 years or so.

After all, we don't necessarily have to wait for theymos to start contest and give out BTC in order to celebrate each anniversary. If someone starts anniversary topic, I'm sure people will start sharing their work, we can vote on best ones etc. Same goes for other important dates like May 22nd and Bitcoin Pizza Day.

Hahaha.. I remember that time when I got more than 30+ merits from Theymos and friends.
That was my first merits after my hiatus from this forum.
It means a lot for me because I got my excitement back on this forum.

We should find a reason why “11” is so special and so bitcoin. So the BTT 11th anniversary will be happen.
 ;D ;D ;D

10+1 years of Bitcoin! Wow, let the celebration not stop.

Having annual celebration of bitcointalk forum will be fantastic. This forum needs to be celebrated yearly. It has come long way by uniting as one in cryptosphere up till this very moment.
Let's assume that the covid-19 stopped us from celebrating it. Hopefully by next year, it will be celebrated   

Maybe the mythical anniversary precious metal coin will finally show itself?

Last year's art contest was memorable. Lots of creative people participated in that contest. We saw in the thread of that contest how many creative people there are in Bitcointalk community. Celebrating every year with the same idea will not be much fun, organizing with new ideas will have a new effect on everyone. It may not be a celebration like last year, but let's see what happens.