It's a complicated system but I think I can speak for everyone when I say that nobody wants to downvote a nominee, we just want to uphold a high standard for what is arguably one of the highest track making achievements And to be honest, anyone can make a featured track. If you lack skill then you'll simply need to put forth more effort to meet the standard (and for the record I upvoted fried eggs with chorizo but the poll had closed and 3 vs. 5 is a close call)
I wasn’t even planning to check the forums today, but I wanted to look something up—and the last thing I expected to see was my own CC being used against a track I worked on. Let me clarify a few things. There’s a big difference between Worlds Collide and fried eggs with chorizo. I worked with both goatosaur and triip on that track, and I genuinely believe the arguments made by the other feat mods—and their final decision—were completely justified. When I made those comments about mR..A’s track, I meant that those tracks are very different on their own, but they share just enough similarities that you can blend them together, like puzzle pieces, to create something new. What goatosaur did on this track is something else entirely: he used resources created specifically for the track and repeated them intentionally to build an atmosphere or background through copy-pasting. And when that technique is done well (like in this case), it can look amazing. I do think the feat mods may have focused a bit too much on the copy-pasted elements, without giving enough attention to the other beautiful, unique aspects of the track. Yes, a lot of the background is copy-pasted—but that’s far from the most impressive part. Still, their reasoning and their decision are completely valid. And I’m saying this even though, if the track had been featured, it would have been my fifth feature and earned me the silver medal. Please don’t antagonize the feat mods when things don’t go the way you want. They’re respected members of the community, they’ve been here for years, they know what they’re doing, and their decisions are made with the best interests of the authors and the community in mind.
At the end of the day it's still subjective, all art is. It's a solid piece but not one that was voted overall to merit a feature. I think a close swing vote either way was the right choice.
