The two monster threads will apparently be locked at that time, but I'm not aware of any prohibition against supplementary threads that could be initiated at any time.
You're right, sir; there's no rule against any new brain-damaged primitive threads if he does something stupid again, and it's worth notice of the DUmpster. Anyone should feel free to continue posting his campfires, if he lights any again, or news of how walrus-face is doing.
The two current threads have been deliberately kept active, so as to ensure that in case the brain-damaged primitive "forgets" to tell a prospective employer his
whole background, well, the complete information's available by google.
That objective appears complete now, and congratulations to Tucker and GOBUCKS for having initiated the two most-popular threads, ever, in the DUmpster. The third, fourth, fifth, &., &c., &c. most-popular don't even come close.
Mission accomplished, and so one week from today, when nominations for the Top DUmmies of 2013 open up, these two giant threads can gently and quietly recede, and if there's anything new, a new thread of course is eminently appropriate, and solicited.
Friends of Doug, touting him for DOTY votes, are likely to do that. I'm not in that group. I think Doug's notoriety, his blazing ascent into DUmp and innertube superstardom, was based entirely on a single thread.
One thread, upon which he made maybe a half-dozen posts, is his body of work. His previous vulgar presence at the DUmp, and his revolting "goggy" posts, had almost nothing to do with his fame......
Doug's post about hiding the TV remote is his version of Kim Kardashian's porn tape, and dozens of DUmmies have done more.
Yes, of course the brain-damaged primitive produced much of little or no value, this being his most spectacular event, ever, on Skins's island; a one-time phenomenon.
But oh God, what a
brilliant, bombastic, colorful display of pyrotechnics.
The Top DUmmies are, ideally, chosen using one of two different criteria, one no more important than the other.
You've referred to primitives with constant, steady output of amusement during the course of the year; that's one standard. I suppose the cousin's a good example; she was pretty much productive all year long, churning out lots and lots of good stuff.
But there's another standard one can use; a primitive who does one singularly spectacular act.
This one single sole solitary thing walrus-face did, was surely the most spectacular event on Skins's island during the past year. Damn, it was hilarious. This
one thing totally eclipses the fact that otherwise, he didn't do a damned thing all year long worthy of note.
If the Taverner primitive had, for example, in 2012 gone nuts and gunned down a shopping-mall, that one act would've overshadowed anything and everything else, and he would've been an easy Top DUmmie #01 last year.
It's up to the voters to decide each on their own, which of the two criteria to use for determining the Top DUmmies; steady output versus one spectacular act.
(For the record, neither the cousin nor the brain-damaged primitive have my vote for number #01 this year; I'm sure it's going to be a surprise, and no, it won't be Skippy from New York City or the cooking and baking primitives (as a group) either. All four are "somewhere" in my top five and top ten, but I have a different primitive in mind, for the top spot.)
