22.06.2020, 10:54
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Joe Average wrote: "Are most of the newly added puzzles all original, or are they re-releases from something that was previously published on that platform before? If it's the later, then I'd say there should be a limit to maybe just publish a few really good ones in the portal and add a link to the author's other/similar work on that platform."
Cracking the Cryptic is not a platform, it's a youTube channel. I think most people who are posting puzzles here are posting their own original puzzles for the first time; they watch CtC and think "I could do this too" or "I have an idea for a puzzle that I'd like to publish". Then they are drawn to LM because the hosts (Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe) keep mentioning this site, along with gmpuzzles dot com, or LM India, or various blogs. LM Germany is definitely mentioned most often.
The subtext of this discussion is that LM Germany might be transforming from a place where people come to solve really great puzzles to one where people come to post puzzles in hopes of becoming better at their craft. Though I haven't been here very long, I feel like it's always been a bit of both, but the latter is getting much more prevalent, and this is changing the character of the site. I don't have solutions to that problem. However, you have to realize that this site is a really GREAT environment for getting feedback and developing one's skills. If this change of character is a problem, then indeed the only solution is to change the tone into something a bit more admonishing or making quotas.
As for sudoku vs other puzzle types: Sudoku is incredibly popular and almost embarrassingly rich in possibilities, that's just the nature of it. So there will be more Sudoku for those reasons alone. On the other hand, I have learned about things like Hashiwakokero and Kubingorodo and all the wonderful variants as a result of coming here. I would never have thought to explore them otherwise. The sudoku 'flood' (I acknowledge that it's a bit much) might be overwhelming the other puzzle types, but it's actually also increasing the audience for them. Or not?
Cracking the Cryptic is not a platform, it's a youTube channel. I think most people who are posting puzzles here are posting their own original puzzles for the first time; they watch CtC and think "I could do this too" or "I have an idea for a puzzle that I'd like to publish". Then they are drawn to LM because the hosts (Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe) keep mentioning this site, along with gmpuzzles dot com, or LM India, or various blogs. LM Germany is definitely mentioned most often.
The subtext of this discussion is that LM Germany might be transforming from a place where people come to solve really great puzzles to one where people come to post puzzles in hopes of becoming better at their craft. Though I haven't been here very long, I feel like it's always been a bit of both, but the latter is getting much more prevalent, and this is changing the character of the site. I don't have solutions to that problem. However, you have to realize that this site is a really GREAT environment for getting feedback and developing one's skills. If this change of character is a problem, then indeed the only solution is to change the tone into something a bit more admonishing or making quotas.
As for sudoku vs other puzzle types: Sudoku is incredibly popular and almost embarrassingly rich in possibilities, that's just the nature of it. So there will be more Sudoku for those reasons alone. On the other hand, I have learned about things like Hashiwakokero and Kubingorodo and all the wonderful variants as a result of coming here. I would never have thought to explore them otherwise. The sudoku 'flood' (I acknowledge that it's a bit much) might be overwhelming the other puzzle types, but it's actually also increasing the audience for them. Or not?
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