*The ISFL with another questionable decision

[.Laser]

So then define that in the post. I understand where you're coming from sidd and I don't mean to come at you as I doubt it was solely your decision, you were just the one who posted it. But if the post says "1 participation" then it means that they just have to post in the thread. If the post says "Participation must be on topic" then you avoid this altogether. Not giving the users who did just say "give participation tpe" their 1 TPE is like going back and changing the rules after it's already done and we should not be supporting that as a league.

It's a point task, it's not an activity check, it's an obvious point task with a briefing and something to write about. I think we can and should expect at least a tiny bit of reading and thinking about what you do in PTs since that has always been the case. Of course people can go ahead and define every single thing what people are expected to do for a minimum amount of participation but is this really who we think we should be? You are part of this league, you want to get something, then do something for it. If a user wants to phone it in, sure go ahead, there are places like activity checks where you literally have to do nothing but say "hey, I'm here", but we should be able to expect to at least have a tiny bit of thought about basic things like that.

Then again we live in a world where a hot coffee you ordered has to say "CAUTION HOT" on the cup so what do I know.

Interestingly enough probably 90% of the people understood the directions and participated I guess?

Firstly, the emphasis is mine.

Secondly, this is a freezing cold take. You just argued that all a user has to do for 2 TPE is to say "Hey, I'm here" yet you don't want to give a user 1 TPE for saying "I want my 1 participation TPE" or something similar to that? It literally takes more effort to read the entire post of the offseason PT, where, I repeat, it was not defined that the users had to put in more effort than just saying "give teps", and then post in that thread with said "give teps", than it does for a user to type their player's last name and team's emoji in activity check thread. And it's for one less TPE.

As a matter of fact, as head updater, many users don't even follow the instructions for the AC. They simply post "Ye" or "here" or only the player name or only the player's team. The rules of the activity check specifically stipulate that a user must post both their player name and team to be eligible for the TPE. Yet I don't enforce that rule because it's ridiculous to do so. If a player posts in the AC thread I'm giving them the two TPE. There's literally no reason not to.

So in this case, why should this be any different? 1, it's less TPE. 2, it was not specifically stipulated, unlike ACs. 3. PPT (or whoever decided to not award the 1 participation idk who it actually was) made this decision just out of the blue, because it was never clearly stated in the thread. 4, it literally takes less effort to do an AC than to read enough of the PT instructions to know that posting for participation TPE would be acceptable under what the rules specifically said. I see no reason for this to be any different whatsoever.