The two main complaints I hear about INCIT nowadays are:

1) It sucks
2) The rounds take too long

I’m wondering what you feel would be the optimal time between rounds. We’ve shortened them a couple of times in the past, so it’s not a problem to do it again. However, we don’t want to take it too far.

If you haven’t played in a while, I suggest you go in and play or lurk for a round or two to get a better feel for how long rounds should last!

Currently, it’s 3:20 for the submission stage. It’s also a minute for voting and the winners/submitters are displayed for 45 seconds. It’s possible that those should be shortened too. Any comments or suggestions regarding INCIT round length are welcome here.

2 and a half minutes sounds like a good amount. It shouldn’t be too short, because that might not give people enough time to look over their entry, fix typos, or go with a different idea they suddenly got.

Voting time should somehow be flexible based on the number of submissions.

Viewing time is mostly irrelevant, because if you don’t get a good look, you can always click on the win in the recent winners box.

I’d say 2.5 minutes for the submission stage and then add 30 seconds or so to the voting stage. When I play, it’s almost always a rush to find something to vote for, but there’s more than enough time to submit something.

Make it 2 mins. It’s my sincere opinion that if you cannot write a decent 70chars joke in that time, it’s probably not going to be funny anyway.

The voting period is fine at 1 min since most of the time while playing incit one is also browsing other stuff and losing on the voting round it’s like the only crucial point on playing incit.

Show the winner for a shorter time, about 30 seconds. Really, it’s not that hard to go and check if you really interested on who won.

2.5 minutes seems to be a good amount of time.

ChilePepino Posted:

Show the winner for a shorter time, about 30 seconds.

Or even shorter, I mean you have it in the box to the left anyways.

plk Posted:

I’d say 2.5 minutes for the submission stage and then add 30 seconds or so to the voting stage. When I play, it’s almost always a rush to find something to vote for, but there’s more than enough time to submit something.

My thoughts exactly. It takes me longer to read all the entries and pick the one I like best than it takes me to come up with something to submit.

Shii Posted:

Make submission round 2 minutes, voting time scalable on number of submissions (it doesn’t take 1.5 minutes or even 1 minute to vote if there are only 5 players atm) and make the winner displayed for 10 seconds.

If you wanna see who won, go down to the lower left-hand box, no need to waste other players’ time.

It’s true you can look through the Hall of ****. But keep in mind people want to see how many votes they got, who submitted what, etc. Also, you get a few seconds to discuss who voted for who, who had the funniest entry, how delightful and original INCIT is, etc.

It also gives mods a chance to record the names of the filthy, filthy spammers. So I think 10 seconds might be cutting it a bit too short.

Jalapeno Bootyhole Posted:

how delightful and original INCIT is

This is rarely commented, if at all, on the incit chat.

It also gives mods a chance to record the names of the filthy, filthy spammers. So I think 10 seconds might be cutting it a bit too short.

Again, if you are really interested, you can go back and check who won. And if they didn’t win, why does it matter?

Should be one minute imo Log in to see images!

but 2 mins seems to be enough time tbh. It seems to drag on if it’s any longer

Vageena Davis Posted:

INCIT Alarm. Makes a popup when it’s time to vote.

Is nice to see users do things like this, but a little incit alarm would be nice to have by the site, of course it should be optional (we should be able to turn it off, shouldn’t sound if we are visualizing the incit tab at the moment, stuff like that).