Mini-contest suggestion

Re: Mini-contest suggestion

Thu, 28 May 2015 12:32:38 +0000

Yeah, I'd make a challenge thread and see who bites. If you want other people to do the judging, hop into staff chat and recruit a few people.

Re: Mini-contest suggestion

Wed, 27 May 2015 00:13:43 +0000

I'd say just do it yourself as a challenge.

Re: Mini-contest suggestion

Tue, 26 May 2015 23:35:50 +0000

I think this might work better if you coordinate it yourself rather than making it a site-wide contest. I agree with moose that you should make it as simple and easy as possible, which means that you could probably handle it on your own.

Re: Mini-contest suggestion

Tue, 26 May 2015 23:15:14 +0000

I'm unsure. Currently, Light is bandying about a contest to hopefully go live soon, and we have multiple other contest proposals floating around — and only three total slots remaining in which to let them play out.

My suggestion is that since it's a mini-contest, ratchet down the scale and make it as simple and easy as possible, so that it doesn't suck up the oxygen for any other contests.

Or badger Troy about how contests work. :)

Mini-contest suggestion

Tue, 26 May 2015 17:07:26 +0000

Way back in 2012, during the folklore contest, I posted SCP-1060 (the penanggalan). Although it's rated > +50, it's probably my weakest SCP article and it's been fairly criticized for being a very straight adaptation of the folklore concept into SCP format.

We can do better.

My suggestion: let's have a summer mini-contest. Anyone who wants to can re-write SCP-1060, keeping as much or as little of it as they like. Judge in the usual fashion (and I would explicitly _not_ participate in the judging), winning submission takes over the 1060 slot with the winner getting full credit (and not merely re-write credit). Presumably none of the other entries get to stay on the mainlist at all since we don't want to clutter it up with a bunch of variations on the same thing.

Whatd'ya think?