Lauren Hynde
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Hello, Survivorphiles, and welcome to the 2008 Survivor Literotica Contest. We hope this will be an enjoyable year-long challenge for all of you, regardless of final score. Survivor is above all a great opportunity for authors to challenge themselves and stretch their own limits, encouraging them into writing territory where they wouldn't normally venture.
This year, there will only be one small change introduced to the rules:
This will hopefully result in two final months of very interesting all-in-the-open competition, and is close enough to the end of the year to not keep newbies waiting for too long until the next edition starts.
All other rules and principles are as in previous years. There is a dynamic cap for immunities, which means that by the end of the year, any immunities you won will only be considered valid if you have regular submissions in two categories for each immunity. Submissions made to the Novels and Novellas category must be 7500 words or more and the first 10 will be worth double points. The use of images in the production of which you were not directly involved, either by creating or by being portrayed in them, will make submissions in the Illustrated and Illustrated Poetry categories ineligible for points. All audio stories must be 750 words or more to be eligible for Survivor, and the accompanying text must be an accurate transcript of the submitted audio.
Every year, there are concerns about multichapter stories and about the quality of some submissions. Once again we must remind all contestants that the only quality control in place is Laurel, at the moment of approval of the submissions. If you read a story that cannot be understood without reading the others in the series, if it doesn't make sense on its own, or if it doesn't correspond, on its own, to the minimum that can be expected for the category it is placed in, please report the story. If you think that any story you read in Literotica is substandard, please report the story. Let Laurel know about it. That's the only way a quality control can be implemented.
In the next few days there will be news on the moderation front. I won't have as much free time as I used to, but several people already stepped up and volunteered to help out.
The 2008 Survivor Literotica Contest: Rules and Registration thread and the January 2008 immunities thread are already posted and you can sign up immediately. To avoid confusion, we'll put creation of new ScoreCard threads on hold until 2007 winners are announced on the 5th and all the mess is cleared, but we'll put them up right after that.
Good luck to all!
This year, there will only be one small change introduced to the rules:
You may enter the contest any time before midnight, Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8:00) on October 31, 2008.
This will hopefully result in two final months of very interesting all-in-the-open competition, and is close enough to the end of the year to not keep newbies waiting for too long until the next edition starts.
All other rules and principles are as in previous years. There is a dynamic cap for immunities, which means that by the end of the year, any immunities you won will only be considered valid if you have regular submissions in two categories for each immunity. Submissions made to the Novels and Novellas category must be 7500 words or more and the first 10 will be worth double points. The use of images in the production of which you were not directly involved, either by creating or by being portrayed in them, will make submissions in the Illustrated and Illustrated Poetry categories ineligible for points. All audio stories must be 750 words or more to be eligible for Survivor, and the accompanying text must be an accurate transcript of the submitted audio.
Every year, there are concerns about multichapter stories and about the quality of some submissions. Once again we must remind all contestants that the only quality control in place is Laurel, at the moment of approval of the submissions. If you read a story that cannot be understood without reading the others in the series, if it doesn't make sense on its own, or if it doesn't correspond, on its own, to the minimum that can be expected for the category it is placed in, please report the story. If you think that any story you read in Literotica is substandard, please report the story. Let Laurel know about it. That's the only way a quality control can be implemented.
In the next few days there will be news on the moderation front. I won't have as much free time as I used to, but several people already stepped up and volunteered to help out.
The 2008 Survivor Literotica Contest: Rules and Registration thread and the January 2008 immunities thread are already posted and you can sign up immediately. To avoid confusion, we'll put creation of new ScoreCard threads on hold until 2007 winners are announced on the 5th and all the mess is cleared, but we'll put them up right after that.
Good luck to all!
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