Forum:I'm depressed.

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I haven't gotten a single article of mine featured, and I haven't archived my talkpage yet. This shows how unpopular I am. ~ Dan the Hedgehog • The Happy Spaceman • TheHappySpaceman • DanTahHedgehog • YouTube • deviantART • TheHappySpaceman.com • info • discussion • contributions • WTFacronyms?! tlh • Poodle • C.A. • T.G.W. • Cheeses • Snakes • Redirect • UnMD • HT:G.Y.F.T.G.T.F.A.F.Y. 03:56, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

I remember when I didn't have any features, I was like, "Ywenofjdudsb'ksprgnsedoq anfpndxz aghatpeztfheeplonbertehnilelodfungei wjkahperotburdfgeklu!!!" Then my head exploded.

No but seriously, don't worry about it. Seriously, don't. And don't make any forum posts about it... Too late. --T3 04:11, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Don't worry about features? T3, have you gone mad? The only thing of value on this site is a feature template which may be stamped on one of your articles! The more the merrier (and conveniently the more damaged your brain is)! —rms talk 04:17, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

RMS, please, I've always been mad. --T3 04:31, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Oh I get it. Haha. Wait, do I get it? I thought I got it but thinking back I think I thought I did get it, the backhoe threw my thought back to when I didn't think I'd get it and now I'm not sure if I got it at all. --(ƒî)» 07:33, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

I may say this a lot, but you're complaining about a lack of features? Try having one feature in 3 1/2 years buddy--Ben ^Blade 16:16, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Wah, wah, somebody call him a wahbulance. I founded the site and I've never had an article of mine featured that I can remember. You don't see me whining about it. Man up. --Nerd42 16:11, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

According to history pages, you have half credit for writing one featured article, Nerd! —rms talk 16:18, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Wut rly? which one was that? --Nerd42 16:19, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Check ?PTI. —rms talk 16:22, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Yummy? I have absolutely no recollection of writing that LOL. --Nerd42 16:28, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Well, you wrote a large enough portion to get yourself some credit for feature. So huzzah! —rms talk 16:30, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Oh, look on the bright side. At least you're not an admin. You don't completely s... I mean... actually, I was just leaving. ~ 16:59, 28 Yoon 2011

lol --Nerd42 17:04, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for all the support guys. You were really a help. Though it would help if you actually voted for one of my articles once. I don't know what else you could give me. (Though there is some Javascript for the main page that you forgot-- see User:Dan the Hedgehog/common.js to see it. ~ Dan the Hedgehog • The Happy Spaceman • TheHappySpaceman • DanTahHedgehog • YouTube • deviantART • TheHappySpaceman.com • info • discussion • contributions • WTFacronyms?! tlh • Poodle • C.A. • T.G.W. • Cheeses • Snakes • Redirect • UnMD • HT:G.Y.F.T.G.T.F.A.F.Y. 17:12, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Dan the Man, let me tell you a story. I was a lowly moron. Babbling a drooling when I came into the Illogicopedia. I tried to write, but I failed. Then I wrote The OMG Scary Alien, what I thought was a masterpiece being worldly belief. It wasn't. Then I wrote Toast an EQUALLY AWFUL article, but these morons featured it anyway. Moral of the story: Do the same thing twice and expect a different result... wait, that's Einstein's definition of insanity. It seems I'm insane. Dammit. --T3 19:37, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)

Some advice is don't look like too much of a whore self-nomming your own articles, it's ok to do so, especially when you're new, but eventually you'll find that it doesn't mean enough to you and you'll calm down. But pretty much the only way to get success here is to keep writing and hope as hard as you can that you magically get better. For example, me. Years ago I was thirsting for features. Now I have around 20, or something. I just wrote enough where I magically one day got decent at it. On the other hand, you can write write write and still not have 1205206907845907456849058634 features, like T3 (no offense). Some 320 articles, some 5 or 6 features. It's all relative, of course.

Eventually it just gets to the point where you don't care, see T3 for example, because he proudly boasts at his minimal success as far as features and uses it to get free sex. Well, maybe not. I actually haven't got to that point because I still have the incredible urge to nominate my favorite of my own articles, but control myself as to not look like a little pipper. It's a real tripe, let me tell you.

All in all, I just took up a bunch of space to convey a weak and probably unconvincing message, but if there's something you should take from this, it's just keep writing, and maybe you will randomly trip over mediocre success someday, like I did. —rms talk 20:45, 28 Yoon 2011 (UTC)