The unofficial Story Contest comments thread

**master of the puppets** · 08-01-2005, 02:13

i enjoyed it (even if in retrospect my story sucked) and with a little bit on the line i may press myself to become a better writer.

i can't organise crap but i hope yu guys can cause' i like contests W00T.

**ichi** · 08-01-2005, 03:20

Thanks Monk and all the rest who are working to make this possible.

And Congrats to all who put forth their work

ichi

**The Stranger** · 08-01-2005, 11:02

i'm friggin banned from the contest

**edyzmedieval** · 08-01-2005, 12:06

Originally Posted by Emperor Umeu 1

i'm friggin banned from the contest

Why?!

**Monk** · 08-01-2005, 14:03

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Why?!

Failure to follow the rules.

edit: i'm *really* getting tired of people breaking the rules. every time i turn around another is broken, well this is the last contest i'm helping to organise.

**shifty157** · 08-01-2005, 21:06

Just for future reference I would gladly help organize and/or judge a future contest. Although im not the absolute greatest writer im pretty familiar with literary analysis as ive written more generally college-level literary critiques/papers/essays than i even want to think about. Regardless if you ever want help organizing or judging just throw me a pm or email.

**Big_John** · 08-01-2005, 23:27

Originally Posted by Monk

Failure to follow the rules.

edit: i'm *really* getting tired of people breaking the rules. every time i turn around another is broken, well this is the last contest i'm helping to organise.

dude, don't do that. if you stop organizing contests the terrorists have already won.

seriously though, why did people edit their stories? i mean, it's not like rule #3 is in a secret code or something. monk, maybe you should have made the rules text size=50.. and red.. and flashing..

**shifty157** · 08-01-2005, 23:38

Flashing may have been a bit odd.

Regardless i think would have been better to have everyone PM you a copy that way they cant change anything.

**The Stranger** · 08-02-2005, 10:05

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Why?!

cuz i edited my story. just like i'm the only one that did it. people did minor spelling edits. still a edit, their edit didnt got excluded

like this. but i did becuz i missed that rule, and cuz of some personal things, not becuz i ignored the rule on purpose.

**Monk** · 08-02-2005, 12:53

Originally Posted by Emperor Umeu 1

cuz i edited my story. just like i'm the only one that did it. people did minor spelling edits. still a edit, their edit didnt got excluded

like this. but i did becuz i missed that rule, and cuz of some personal things, not becuz i ignored the rule on purpose.

you're not the only one who had their entry excluded Emperor...

**CrackedAxe** · 08-02-2005, 17:58

I don't mind if I get disqualified, I did break the rules after all. But if you look at my edit, it came shortly after I had already submitted my piece and before anybody else had submitted a further entry. So it definately wasn't done as a response to somebody's else's entry, just a moment's oversight. A rule is a rule, though, and if I am disqualified, could you please PM me ASAP to let me know? Thanks.