MDL's 2024 Challenge FAQ and Discussion

 Rien:

The links should work again.

The links to the challenges are working, but I saw that the links from the challenge itself do not work. So when I try to find my or any other specific post in the challenge I have to search manually by going through each page of the past challenges. Is it possible to revive those links as well? 

For the Monsoon badge, if I use a variety show with multiple seasons and one season has 99 episodes, is it enough to watch one episode of another season to reach 100 or do I need to watch two entire seasons? 

@bitcoolKat

If they used petals to decorate plates, then those flowers are probably edible. Please include a short description of the scene in notes. If you know which flowers they used you can look up if they are edible. I’m pretty sure that Drinks are also considered food. So I would say yes to flowers in drinks.

Flower boy/girl is according to a dictionary the following:

1. a woman or girl who sells flowers, especially in the street.
2. a young girl who carries flowers or scatters them in front of the bride at a wedding.

So I would think that is acceptable.

Plant agriculture , yes orchards count. Any plant or part thereof so that includes drugs.

I believe for pressed plants we’re looking for pressed between paper.

 Rien:

I’m not sure why some of the links don’t work, it could be a server issue. You can create a ticket in support and ask/request for the links to be fixed.

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I’m asking the others for the Monsoon badge question, will add a reply for that question later.

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A veteran is someone who has been involved in their particular activity for a long time. I’m not sure if we specified a certain number of years for veteran. So will ask the others.

Thank you, Rien! <3 

The requirements for veteran actors/actresses are specified like this in the custom list: 

"Veteran Actors and Actresses either above the age of 65 or has been in the business for more than 25 years" 

List: https://mydramalist.com/list/1xrxjyd3

I also wanted to ask about the badge Annual Flower. Do we need to watch titles from 2010-2020 or can we also use 2014-2024 or any other 10 consecutive years? And is it necessary to have all titles within round 1 or can we use titles from round 1 and round 2, as long as we watched titles from 10 consecutive years in the entire challenge? 

 Rien:

@JulyMoon,

Monsoon badge, 100 episodes, so you can watch 99 episodes from one season and 1 episode from the next season, so the total needs to be 100.

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For the veteran the first title must be from 1999 (25 years ago) and they should still be active in acting. You can always try and check other cast members from a title.

Thank you, Rien! <3 

I just noticed a little problem. The MDL Watch Challenge encourages us to add tags for titles and like usual I did that through the most logical way by using the Vote or add tags button. Now I received a DM saying my edit was rejected (once again, it's quite the norm sadly) because there was no proof. I watched the title (Some More), I can testify it has Summer Setting, but I was told I need to use the "Edit page" variant. I don't really want to edit drama pages anymore since 99% of my latest edits got rejected for all kind of reasons or took over 2 weeks to be accepted. 

With all due respect, it is a bit over complicating things when we are encouraged to add tags but when we try to do so, we get rejected and asked to take a detour. Not to mention that the staff is already terribly understaffed (as they told me) but when we add tags we only add to their workload. Wouldn't it be easier to make custom lists for Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall settings in dramas? I've seen that a lot of titles are not tagged even though they qualify for those tags. With lists it might be easier for other participants to find them and add other titles. 

Just thought I mention this here. ^.^ 

 JulyMoon:

I also wanted to ask about the badge Annual Flower. Do we need to watch titles from 2010-2020 or can we also use 2014-2024 or any other 10 consecutive years?

Any 10 consecutive years.

 JulyMoon:

And is it necessary to have all titles within round 1 or can we use titles from round 1 and round 2, as long as we watched titles from 10 consecutive years in the entire challenge? 

We go by final counts. So yea, you can use titles from multiple rounds.