>>2684618If there is no reward involved in taking the photo (Like there would be at a photo job, or in school where a good photo receives a passing grade) then the assignment has to interest people in order to get participation.
Saying "Go take photos of happiness, and be sure to include repetition and do it in this super specific obscure timeframe" makes a lot of people lose interest. Was it too hard? no. Was it lame? Yes.
This is /p/. The true challenge, here, will always be to actually take a photo. So that's what the challenge threads have to overcome in the first place. If you want people to participate, you have to have a topic that's broad enough to have mass appeal, and simple enough to not intimidate people away from it.
Then you deal with the fact that a great deal of people come to /p/ just to hate things, and OP's of challenge threads burn out quick. They get abused for little to no reason, they make topics that appeal to artists, or gear fags, but never both, and they make themselves a personality on the board. So they set themselves up to get AT BEST, about 30% support/participation, 70% abuse, with no personal benefit to them.
Knowing all that, asking why WOULD there still be a weekly photo challenge, is the better question.
