jujimufu

Yes, and saying thank you is a very good action of showing gratitude, since you can't bow, hug, pat or kiss someone over the net.

So you do care about winning. A contest is about winning, and the rest of YC is about commenting and getting reviews. If you think you wouldn't have the inspiration without the pressure and motive of the contest, then you might as well write the piece with the contest in mind, and post the piece out of contest, if you're not interested in winning (i.e. it won't be graded, it will only be reviewed).

And you would have absolutely no reason of telling all the other participants to bluntly "go to Hell", if you cared only about the reviews.

Again, see the above comment. If you weren't interested in winning, you wouldn't care about other people. What do you care if other people get their pieces reviewed or not, or if they eventually turned out to have/not have the time to finish their pieces? You submitted yours, it will get reviewed, eventually it won't get graded, so since you don't care about the gradings and you only care about the reviews, it's fine on your side. Your review would be the same no matter how many people submitted compositions in this contest, the only thing that changed with the lack of participants is not grading, and this is when you started ranting, which is again why I firmly believe that you do care about the grades more than you do about the reviews, in spite of what you say.

Well, sometimes, when I say "no" I actually mean "yes". Now try and have a conversation with me and make sense out of it, as everything will be subjective. No, language is about communication, communication is about being as clear as possible and express what you want to say in a way that everyone would understand. If you want subjectivity, go write a poem. What your behaviour implicates is what I perceived of what you expressed. If you can't express yourself clearly, then it's your problem not mine. And if, indeed, you don't only care about yourself (as you said in your post above), then you should care about other people understanding what you want to say correctly, so you should take more care making sure we will understand what you mean.



You could immediately write a new post asking for people not to comment on the older version, and that would have been fine. Or you could get the review of the older version, and get a grading of the newer one for the competition (the comments on the older version would apply to the new one, unless you corrected some of the things mentioned, in which case you should just ignore the particular points in the commentaries).

I have expressed above why I don't believe that you are being absolutely honest with us in saying this.


Yes, be proud that your parents forced another kid into not touring Italy so you could. So, do you think about poisoning the other applicants at the university you will apply to so you will get there for sure? Life isn't about making everyone else worse than you so you can prevail, it is about working harder than other people and being better than them, so you prevail no matter what they do. If that kid was indeed as talentless than you as you say, then why would they choose it any way? If there was a big, vast difference between you and that kid, then they would have obviously picked you (they wouldn't have any reason picking that other kid, would they?). And if the difference wasn't that big, then what makes you believe that you deserved it more than him? Just because you think you do or your parents think you do, it doesn't mean you do. Maybe that kid wasn't as good as you, but maybe if he had gone touring in Italy he would have experienced music in a different way and it might have had a big impact on the rest of his life. What right do you have to force your way in front of other people?

Then they aren't serious enough, or you misinterpreted them. Plus, by not being nice and having things your way as you did with the Italy tour, you might get well along in the short run, but trust me, it's the honestly good people and the people with the best social skills (and also character) that will prevail in the long run. And that's true for the life as well, not just music.


That's all I was giving in the first place, but you started sending people to Hell.

Now, I would appreciate if you tried to stop this conversation here, because I think you are the kind of person who wants to win no matter how or what, and I know you will never stop replying to my replies and I will probably not stop replying to yours.

Also, in your profile you say you were born in 1993. I was born in 1989, and that makes me about 4 years older than you. Trust me, four years is a lot of experience at this age, and I would appreciate that if you kept that in mind when replying in this forum (I am not saying you are not intelligent, or talented, you may as well be smarter and more talented than me - I am talking about experience, which comes with time and work, not intelligence or talent). I don't think you would reply to me in a similar way if we were talking in real life, so don't assume you have the right to talk to me differently simply because you can write anything you want over the internet.

Es português, não? Queria poder falar português, mas infelizmente não posso Agora, estou a emitir-lhe os comentários logo. Adeus