User blog comment:Stormver/The Contest Fad/@comment-26432133-20170304165132

I agree. Firey had given me permission to hold a contest every few months without needing to submit a form, since my contest appeared to be a success. There's just way too many contests atm so I decided to have a contest every three months. I think you misinterpreted what I said to Firey, since you mentioned "Some of the messages between Dog and Firey outline a plan to have three contests going on at a time." We were actually planning what I said above, but what you said might work. Bring it up with Firey, or maybe she'll see this.

I held a contest simply to poke the wiki into interacting, because we've kinda drifted apart, y'know? I did expect it to start a fad- Pumpkin's one guide started a guides fad, and her What If? series also got a few people to start their own- but something on this scale is a little too much. I don't think that people are actually hopping onto the bandwagon, but more of they're realizing contests are a thing and they could hold one and it would be fun, and they're all trying to do it now. Contests will die down like every fad, but for now everyone remember that if someone else has a contest going, yours probably won't see much light.