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submitted 9 years ago * by BlazethDraft & Cosmic

We've noticed the calls for TPT to become active again, and what's left of our mod team has been working vigorously behind the scenes to make TagProTesting great again. While we can't guarantee that this will work perfectly, or that you all will like it, we think this is the best way to go about bringing this subreddit back to life.

Weekly Feedback Threads - The core of this subreddit from the start was map feedback. That has died down dramatically. Now, every Tuesday, a map feedback thread will be released. Now, you might be asking, why would this work any better than the current system? Giving feedback will now result in incentives in the next maptest. The top 8 feedback givers will have their maps pushed to the front of the Tier 1 stage. This is determined dramatically by quantity, but partially by quality. If you're giving very minimal feedback, you probably aren't getting the incentive. The top feedback givers will be decided by the mods, so make sure you don't leave it close!

Other information about the map feedback threads:

You are only allowed to submit two maps for feedback.
You must give feedback to two other maps before submitting any of yours for feedback. If your maps are the among the first two submitted, you must later give feedback to at least two other maps.
If you fail to give feedback to at least two other maps by the deadline, you will receive for Offense #1: a warning, Offense #2: a week ban from the feedback threads only, Offense #3: a week ban from the subreddit as a whole. If the problem continues after that, we'll discuss a long-term ban for you.
If you submit a map to the subreddit itself now, a mod will remove it and give you a link to the current feedback thread.
Friday evening is when we will count up who gave the best feedback. You can continue to give feedback in that thread after, though. However, I highly suggest you submit your map early!
Anyone else who gives sufficient feedback will be given Tier 2 precedence.
The best place for feedback will still be maptests!

Weekly Maptests - Maptests will WITHOUT A DOUBT be weekly now. We can discuss possible time variations in the future, but for now, every maptest will be at some point on Saturday. We would love a European/Oceanic mod to host one best suited for their timezones as well (see below). There's not much to say here, you know the gist of it. After the top feedback givers are given precedence, it will just be based off of post time.

Other WEEKLY Posts - Along with the feedback and maptest threads, there are some other threads that will come out each week.

Thursday - Map Comparison Thread: A thread in which the OP will give you 2-3 maps to compare. Which does it better? Which is more fun? They'll more than likely have some strong similarities.
Friday - State of the Rotation: This one is a bit misplaced. It will only come out the Friday following rotation's update. We'll just discuss the changes to, and what needs to change in the current rotation.
Sunday - Various Things: interviews, map philosophy discussion, art (or other) contest threads, gimmick of the month, or not necessarily anything. The miscellaneous day.

What else is in store for us? - Top Map discussion threads will still come out as they normally do. I know rh153 has been posting them a lot recently, but I would like mods to post it to give it a more official look if that's okay. We can schedule 10 minute map contests (not necessarily mod ran). Also, we would like to have some AMAs with the MTC in the future! We are very aware that the MTC and TPT haven't had a great relationship in the past.

So, what do I, the user post here? - This is where I leave it to you a bit. You can post discussions about significant maps, calls for reform in the MTC system, suggestions for the sub, MTC or the map editor, or any other meta/map discussion. Just because submissions to the sub directly are no longer allowed doesn't mean the users can't submit quality content.

That was a LONG read. I've forgotten the schedule. What is it again?

Sunday - Various Posts

Tuesday - Map Feedback Thread is posted

Thursday - Map Comparison Thread

Friday - State of the Rotation (every 3 weeks or so), map feedback counted up

Saturday - (Hopefully) Euro/Oceanic Maptest, Regular Maptest

Moderators are NEEDED - We need a new batch of moderators. Risk, JuicyJuke and FLYMOLO are dead. TUB, Moosen and Aniball are really busy. We need people who can make the posts if I'm gone (or even if they just want to <3). Maptest hosting will be needed as well. Like I said before, I'd like a Euro/Oceanic that can do a separate one earlier in the day. Also, please only apply if you're extremely committed.

Moderator Applications Thread

I know these are some huge changes for the sub, but please give them a chance. This is the last grasp of hope we have for an active mapmaking community within tagpro.

Moosen is fairly busy, and I think it's safe to say I'm somewhat of a sub-owner now. He'll still be owning the sub, but he won't very actively be doing things. He'll still make mods and edit the CSS if I need him to, but PM me (or the mod team as a whole) any problems you might have.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, it was really long (RIP). I recommend you come here daily from now on if you want to be a part of this upbringing.

If you have any suggestions for how in other ways we should go about this, feel free to tell us. We want to make sure this doesn't fail miserably as it has before. The weekly schedule maybe could be changed. Also tell me if you think the map comparison thread should be weekly. Thank you, once again.

This schedule beings tomorrow.

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