The next big day is Pico Day, April 30. Usually quite a few awesome submissions, including staff-contributed ones, along with the usual surge in spam and non-related flashes. There are flash group holidays all over the calendar, but with more and more of the larger groups becoming defunct, few of those will be anything to be concerned about.
Anyway, the rollcall responses are coming in nicely, and I have received word that someone important might be dropping by soon. Some of the newer members might not know who he is, but we'll catch y'all up, heh.
In other news, the response to the poll on raising the whistle requirements for new recruits is rather one-sided thus far. Most votes are in favor of raising it, and most in favor of raising it think Bronze would be a fair increase. While I personally voted for Silver, I can get behind Bronze...it shows that a Newgrounder knows how to use his whistle, and use it properly, and yet is still a rather easily-attainable goal (50 whistle points is the generally-accepted guess).
So, any comments on the idea? Good idea, bad idea? And then there's the question of what to do if a prospective recruit is otherwise excellent---good B/P ratio, nice posts and helpful reviews---but has a normal whistle. We could hold off of recruitment until they've got one (which, for someone skilled, doesn't take too long), or give them some sort of boot camp/apprentice-type deal, where they're not full members until they have Bronze. Maybe Soldiers-in-training or something. I dunno.
That reminds me, I've got to re-pimp the concept of Guardsman at the NGPD as part of the Barracks restructuring...
