Infection

One of the many ongoing discussions on the Sentinel concerns redesigning the gossamer icon.  There have been several pieces art that players have uploaded for discussion, and a couple of polls have evolved from these discussions.  One individual uploaded numerous images onto a poll and prefaced his proposals with "I would like to remind everyone that I am (at best) a novice at graphic design."

Here we have a member of the player base who was frank about his skills in design, yet in spite of this he made a good faith effort in participating in the discussion.  He created some images, and then expanded upon his ideas by offering some variations on his images.  When I voiced a minor concern about how the images would display in the player window, he then proceeded to create images reduced in size for each of his proposals and shared those for discussion.  He put a lot of work into revising his pictures and in participating on the topic.

The quality of his images are irrelevant; I am more impressed by his initiative, enthusiasm and participation in the discussion.  Somebody asked "can we make a better picture" and this individual reacted with a positive, proactive response.  When I see a player get excited about a topic and participates constructively, then I get excited too.  It's infectious.

What I find most impressive is that this infection still exists in a game that's over ten years old.