May competition

[Senna Jawa]

(Let's forget, for the sake of simplicity, what I have written about competitions till now. I am starting anew).

• Post, in this thread, links to up to four of your own poems, posted on Literotica during the month of May, year 2002, which U would like to make available for the May competition. The deadline is June 20.
• A poem can be discussed in the context of the competition from the moment it was made available (see above), and until the end of the competition. The discussion will use the thread titled "May competition -- discussion".
• Voting on the poems will take place from June 25 to July 15 inclusively. Post your votes in the thread titled "May competition -- voting" (it will be created on June 24/25).
• Each voter can award a total of up to 20 points to any number of available poems, but not more than 8 points to any single poem.

There r a few more details to cover but above rules should get us going. I hope that this May competition will stimulate interesting discussions. It will be fair to point to the strong and to the weak aspects of the poems made available for the competition. We will have a chance to dig into poems deeper than usually.

Regards,

 

[Senna Jawa]

• Post, in this thread, links to up to four of your own poems, posted on Literotica during the month of May, year 2002, which U would like to make available for the May competition. The deadline is June 20.

I am offering my four poems listed below within my signature.

Remark. At this time "San Jose" is presented in a small font, too small for anybody's comfort. I'll change it (it will take a couple of days). Till then, for the time of reading "San Jose", U may set font in your web browser to larger than usually and U shouldn't have any problem.

Regards,

 

[Senna Jawa]

additional details

just a couple of them:

• [*]a poem cannot get any point(s) from its author.
  [*]point awards have to be positive integers (e.g. U may not award 2.4 points to a poem. It has to be 2 points or 3 points or any positive integer which does not exceed 8).
  [*]voting can be incremental but never decremental.

This means that, for example, U may award a poem 3 points at first, then increase the award to 5, and finally to 6. But once U have awarded it, say, 5 points, U cannot decrease the award in any way, say to 4 points.

I imagine that one would like to avoid too much of a commitment initially, before the discussion develops fully. One may save some of his/her voting points for the last day before the deadline (so that bookies can make their bread .

Regards,

 

[Senna Jawa]

May competition is dead, I guess

sd412, U should post generalities about the competition here, not in the thread devoted to the eventual discussions on poems submitted in May. No harm anyway. The May competion seems to be dead. It would need poems from at least six different authors to make any sense. With fewer authors we could still have some discussions but it wouild make little sense to vote and go thru with the whole project to the end.

If anybody wants to call a June competition, go ahead. I will not.

Regards,

 

[WickedEve]

suggestion

Maybe you should look through some older threads at competitions daughter and UP started back earlier in the year. The rules were kept simple. And we created new poems for the competitions. Those competitions always seemed to generate interest.

 

[Senna Jawa]

Re: suggestion

Maybe you should look through some older threads at competitions daughter and UP started back earlier in the year. The rules were kept simple. And we created new poems for the competitions. Those competitions always seemed to generate interest.

I logically react to what I see, hence the ideas of discussion prompting competitions and of the collections of poems organized according to their subject or form. That's all. Let's forget it.

(Of course, if anybody wants to do something constructive, go ahead, would be nice).

 

[WickedEve]

SJ, as one of the many posters here, I do appreciate your enthusiasm. I'm sorry this idea didn't work out. Sometimes it takes a few tries to hit on the right thing, or maybe it was the timing.