Let's keep it civil. Do not name any creators. I simply would like to know your thoughts on these questions! I look forward to seeing what you think. Thanks for your input. 😊
I keep it basic: I’m thankful to watch solves that are positive, genuine, and fun, after I do my solves, at my own pace. I then support the video algorithm by subscribing and adding likes and comments.
Thank you, Adam, for providing this forum for discussion. 1) Competitions: I was involved in a couple of competitions but wouldn't do it again. It seemed to bring out the worst in certain people, and it soon became apparent that there was cheating going on. In the last Connections tournament that I participated in, there was one player who consistently claimed to get perfect scores, but stubbornly refused to share any details to back up his results, despite many requests in the comments asking him to do so. He always ignored them, never replied, was obviously hiding something. I kept expecting the host to step up and address the problem, but he never did. I decided that would be my last competition. 2) Paywalls: Even though I enjoy watching, I would never want to see any game content so badly that I'd be willing to pay for it. With a tight economy and so many channels offering free content, I feel it takes a lot of hubris for a channel host to think their content is so special that lots of people would eagerly plunk down hard-earned cash for the privilege of watching. 3) Altering the rules: Obviously, the channel hosts can do whatever they want on their own channel, but I play these games to satisfy my own standards, which usually stick pretty closely to the official game rules. One exception...in Connections, even though it's not required, I do like to see how other players identified the categories and share how I did it too, because I think it makes for a much more interesting interaction. 4) Cheating/not playing fairly: I have never suspected any creators of cheating. Unfortunately, the internet is rife with assorted whackos and trolls who tend to be immature, insecure, angry, and paranoid types. I generally ignore them. However, I do find it irritating if a host "bends" the rules for the sake of their own solve, or is excessively lenient with their own answers when it comes to identifying Connections categories. Fortunately, most hosts that I watch have the integrity not to do this.
1) no opinion. 2) to each their own. Each creator can run their channel how they want. I enjoy creators with a wide variety of styles. 3) I demand you say soda, pop, sodapop, Coke, etc. Just kidding. To me this is just like question 2. Each creator can call things whatever they like. They can pronounce words how they want. 4) Don’t people have better things to do than anonymously accuse people of cheating? Unfortunately trolls will be trolling as is the nature of social media.
I think people should support channels/creators that they enjoy, and not support channels/creators that they don't. If you don't enjoy a channel (for whatever reason), then it seems like the answer is not to watch it, as opposed to watching it and complaining about it, on that channel and/or other channels.
4: There are a lot of viewers that are not experts in vocabulary. And when a content creator plays a fancy word, their immediate reaction is "cheater". I have been accused of cheating in online Scrabble games after playing words that my opponents didn't know. My advice to the doubters is: go back to school. Memorize all the 2315 words on the original Wordle anwer list (done). Then learn all the 13k+ acceptable 5-letter words in the international Scrabble word list. If you can do that, you can see that we are not cheating; we are just good in what we do.
The same goes for memorizing past Wordle answers. Some people choose to try to do it; others don't. It's not "cheating" to do it. I have found it an interesting aspect of the game.
Re cheating: Unfortunately the fact is that none of us, creators or subscribers, can prove we are honest. Any one of us could fake results. To me, there seems to be no point in doing that, however.
Let's keep it civil. Do not name any creators. I simply would like to know your thoughts on these questions! I look forward to seeing what you think. Thanks for your input. 😊
I keep it basic: I’m thankful to watch solves that are positive, genuine, and fun, after I do my solves, at my own pace. I then support the video algorithm by subscribing and adding likes and comments.
Thank you, Adam, for providing this forum for discussion.
1) Competitions: I was involved in a couple of competitions but wouldn't do it again. It seemed to bring out the worst in certain people, and it soon became apparent that there was cheating going on. In the last Connections tournament that I participated in, there was one player who consistently claimed to get perfect scores, but stubbornly refused to share any details to back up his results, despite many requests in the comments asking him to do so. He always ignored them, never replied, was obviously hiding something. I kept expecting the host to step up and address the problem, but he never did. I decided that would be my last competition.
2) Paywalls: Even though I enjoy watching, I would never want to see any game content so badly that I'd be willing to pay for it. With a tight economy and so many channels offering free content, I feel it takes a lot of hubris for a channel host to think their content is so special that lots of people would eagerly plunk down hard-earned cash for the privilege of watching.
3) Altering the rules: Obviously, the channel hosts can do whatever they want on their own channel, but I play these games to satisfy my own standards, which usually stick pretty closely to the official game rules. One exception...in Connections, even though it's not required, I do like to see how other players identified the categories and share how I did it too, because I think it makes for a much more interesting interaction.
4) Cheating/not playing fairly: I have never suspected any creators of cheating. Unfortunately, the internet is rife with assorted whackos and trolls who tend to be immature, insecure, angry, and paranoid types. I generally ignore them. However, I do find it irritating if a host "bends" the rules for the sake of their own solve, or is excessively lenient with their own answers when it comes to identifying Connections categories. Fortunately, most hosts that I watch have the integrity not to do this.
1) no opinion.
2) to each their own. Each creator can run their channel how they want. I enjoy creators with a wide variety of styles.
3) I demand you say soda, pop, sodapop, Coke, etc. Just kidding. To me this is just like question 2. Each creator can call things whatever they like. They can pronounce words how they want.
4) Don’t people have better things to do than anonymously accuse people of cheating? Unfortunately trolls will be trolling as is the nature of social media.
I think people should support channels/creators that they enjoy, and not support channels/creators that they don't. If you don't enjoy a channel (for whatever reason), then it seems like the answer is not to watch it, as opposed to watching it and complaining about it, on that channel and/or other channels.
4: There are a lot of viewers that are not experts in vocabulary. And when a content creator plays a fancy word, their immediate reaction is "cheater". I have been accused of cheating in online Scrabble games after playing words that my opponents didn't know. My advice to the doubters is: go back to school. Memorize all the 2315 words on the original Wordle anwer list (done). Then learn all the 13k+ acceptable 5-letter words in the international Scrabble word list. If you can do that, you can see that we are not cheating; we are just good in what we do.
The same goes for memorizing past Wordle answers. Some people choose to try to do it; others don't. It's not "cheating" to do it. I have found it an interesting aspect of the game.
Re cheating: Unfortunately the fact is that none of us, creators or subscribers, can prove we are honest. Any one of us could fake results. To me, there seems to be no point in doing that, however.