A long time ago, at a Mixxing Bowl blog entry far from this one, we decided we were going to have an avatar contest.  It made everyone happy.  So happy, in fact, that many began singing and dancing into the forest, and began celebrating with the small woodland creatures found therein. Well, it wasn't that euphoric, but you get the drift.  It was a lot of fun.  So much fun, in fact, that we'd been thinking about having another one.  So here it is...  but this time...  it's different. Instead of voting on already-existing avatars, your mission (should you choose to accept it, and if you don't, I shall beat you with a fish) will be to design an avatar... for THE_PLAGIARIST... We've all seen the dude on Mixx and in the Bowl.  A regular contributor, submitting great stuff.  The fact he has no avatar has been a low-key running joke amongst the SB crew for a little while, so we decided to dress that icon up a little for this particular contest... Your Mission: Design and create an avatar for The_Plagiarist to use at Mixx.com.  You may use any digital image manipulation tools you wish to use. Post your results in this thread over at the ...

My fellow Mixxers and SuperMixxers, I come before you with a new challenge – this time directed at Mixx itself! As some of you are aware, we have focused some energy in working against those who have previously abused the system.  It was a two stage campaign – reactive and proactive. It is now time to begin being proactive. Mixx, over the last year, has been growing very steadily, gaining new users every day.  We’ve always been a tight community, what with The Mixxing Bowl and individual interactions we’ve had with each other.  It’s time to extend that community feeling outward and welcome the newer users. The key goal here is to continue helping Mixx to grow, and so our goal for The Ultimate Challenge is two-fold: 1.    Help Mixx retain our new fellow Mixxers coming into the community 2.    Get more quality submissions hitting the popular page The question is, “How do we do this?” Let’s take a look at what we can do to help accomplish this ultimate challenge. Welcoming and Retaining our New Mixxers Jump on the CNN Submissions Many of you have noticed, as have I that submissions made by CNN Reader will often have numerous comments made by new users.  These new Mixxers, more often than ...