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9 Jan 2025 20:21:03 EST (-0500)
  Re: Topics  
From: Margus Ramst
Date: 3 Nov 1998 05:38:48
Message: <363EDDDB.395524B7@peak.edu.ee>
Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> 
> I like more eclectic, bizarre topics.
> It really bugs me when people throw in a piece that had been sitting on
> their hard drive anyway and use a cheesy image description to make it
> fit.
> 
> I like topics so bizarre one would have to have made it from scratch,
> like Microcosms.

Pro:
Yep, some topics tend to produce rather unimaginative results (how many
views of the same wineglass were there with the "glass" topic?)

Contra:
When the topic is too bizarre, many people (including myself) are
probably gonna have problems both adhering to the topic and producing
something interesting. Sorry, but I would really hate the topic "J. F.
Kennedy"

I personally still prefer the more general topics, which give me a
greater freedom of choice. If somebody chooses to throw in an old,
off-topic image, that's their problem. It should be discouraged, but
not, I think, by using topics so bizarre you have to decipher them with
the help of a dictionary...


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