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Hey guys. The crew here at trollcats.com had a meeting today and decided on some things that are going to affect you all, so we thought we’d do a post about our decisions and their consequences, explaining our reasoning.
1) We’re going to avoid publishing trollcats that represent minor variations on already-covered themes.
So if we already have, for example, an “eating babies is teh_awesome” trollcat and a “fags are teh_sux” trollcat, we’re going to be unlikely to publish submissions or create new trollcats for those particular trolls. If we do add new trollcats that are variations-on-already-covered-themes then they are going to have to be exceptionally-good-in-our-completely-subjective-opinion.
2) We’re going to get tougher on submissions.
Until now we’ve been pretty easygoing about accepting trollcat submissions. We want to lift the bar for both our team and for submitters. We also reserve the right to edit/modify submissions where we think they represent good ideas that have just been poorly executed.
3) We’re reducing our publishing frequency commitment.
We’ve also had a policy of publishing a trollcat at least once a day. We’ve decided that while we will still try to do that, if we can’t come up with a quality trollcat then we won’t publish one that we think is just “okay” for the sake of it. Our new commitment is to try to do at least three quality updates a week.
4) We’ll be deleting some previously-published trollcats that we think are particularly weak or uninspired.
Some of them are submissions, some of them are our own creations. No fear or favor will be shown.
5) The gist.
Generally what came out of our discussion today was that we want to start pushing more for quality over quantity, so that people turning up here will want to at least come back every once in a while. It’s a beautiful dream, right? AND WE DARE TO DREAM.
Particularly interested to hear what our long-time commentators and regular lurkers have to say about the changes. Have at us!
October 18th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
tl;dr
October 19th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Cake is a form of food that is usually sweet and often baked. Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by vegetarians and vegans), fats (usually butter, shortening, or margarine, although a fruit purée such as applesauce is sometimes substituted to avoid using fat), a liquid (milk, water or fruit juice), flavors and some form of leavening agent (such as yeast or baking powder), though many cakes lack these ingredients and instead rely on air bubbles in the dough to expand and cause the cake to rise. Cake is often frosted with buttercream or marzipan, and finished with piped borders and crystallized fruit.
Cake is often the dessert of choice for meals at ceremonial occasions, particularly weddings, anniversaries and birthdays. There are literally millions of cake recipes (some are bread-like and some rich and elaborate) and many are centuries old. Cake making is no longer a complicated procedure; while at one time considerable labor went into cake making (particularly the whisking of egg foams), baking equipment and directions have been simplified that even the most amateur cook may bake a cake.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:15 am
It’s a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake. If the whey is hazy, you gotta do the cooking by the book. You know you can’t be lazy. Never use a messy recipe. The cake will end up crazy. If you do the cooking by the book, then you’ll have a cake!
October 19th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
October 21st, 2009 at 4:01 pm
lovely pic illustrating the enabler and the enabled. disgusting but teh funny.
January 9th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
That’s probably the closest either will get to having physical sex until they shed a few hundred pounds of cake.
October 19th, 2009 at 1:41 am
i’m a daily visitor already, but i’m all for the quality drive
October 19th, 2009 at 4:31 am
As a lurker since day one, I totally agree, otherwise this will end up just like the cheesy swamp known as ICHCB.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Any way I can get a copy of that cute cat with the two different colored eyes that was offering to suck me back?! I thought that was AWESOME and it was gone when I tried to show it to friends. I has a sad.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Check your email, palasaurus.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:57 pm
OMG THX U!!! I will totally suck you first!!!
BIG PROMISE!
October 21st, 2009 at 4:05 pm
hey dudes, it’s your site to do w/as you wish. personally, i’ll miss coming over every day to see whatever new one but i totally agree w/all you said (i’m a quality over quantity type myself).
.-= slum_goddess´s last blog ..for BJ & Rigby II =-.
October 21st, 2009 at 4:14 pm
We’ve actually got enough trollcats right now to post one a day for a month and a half, which we will do, so it’ll be one a day for at least that long.
It’s more that we’re not going to make daily posting the priority over quality posting. And we’re not going to post submissions that we think are borderline-rubbish.
January 10th, 2010 at 7:45 am
+1
Suck beats non-suck.
.-= David Gerard´s last blog ..Baron Silas Greenback sues Royal Institution for competence discrimination =-.
February 24th, 2010 at 11:12 am
If you read my comments, you know how I feel about it already. I voted this post “up,” if that’s any indicator.
.-= Jim McCray´s last blog ..A Valentine’s Day Joke About My Ex-Girlfriend =-.