>"this focus became a place of negativity and makes me avoid it as good as i can"
>posts anyway
>"while others are farming their post counters with content that have zero value nor contribute to anything"
>literally posts just to complain about the people complaining, and somehow having even less of a point except 'abloobloo my precious sensibilities'
ok my guy. you can't sit on that high horse while beating it's carcass at the same time. kind of have to pick one or the other.
as a former forum moderator on these very forums, unless LO has drastically changed many of the forum rules and guidelines - not a single rule has been broken and no moderator intervention should be necessary. are people a bit heavy-handed with their comments? yes, that's always been the case however. there is literally nothing wrong with people being iffed about the winning submissions. in fact, considering the sheer amount of negativity towards this specific topic, one could make the correlation that something being framed as a community event had rather little to do with the community outside of the submissions themselves. but that'd be crazy, right?