Thread: Make Your Suggestions for March's Competition

Has it been decided what the subject of the article is to be? I don't believe it should be strictly on IM. I think it could be on a personal or humorous subject something that brings out the point being made by the writer that most people reading it will grasp.
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Just my suggestion.

Now I don't know how this competition will be judged but
thinking about how it can help us write better articles and
not be a big burden on the judges I think an article about
300 words plus a bio box would fit the bill.

I think a bio box (even if it is a fake one) is where an article
wins or loses the reader - it's sort of like a call to action to press
that hyperlink. Even if they press it and do nothing it helps
move you article up as the click through rate increases.

That's the theory anyway. Let's put it to the test.

You are certainly right about the Bio (Resource in some ADs). Assuming you can get your article accepted in the first place and thus is is worthy of reading....that key is then in the Bio....to nudge it along the way and get people clicking back on your site.

Kevin

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Are we right in saying that this competition is limited to one article or, can i write multiple??????
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Not sure Joker - up to Reed/Bill to clarify

Kevin

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Originally Posted by The Joker
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Are we right in saying that this competition is limited to one article or, can i write multiple??????
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Originally Posted by Kevin Potts
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Not sure Joker - up to Reed/Bill to clarify

Kevin

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I have just set up the proposals for the competition in the Admin and Mods Lounge for discussion/approval before it is formally launched.

My thoughts are that we should encourage as many entries as possible and so you can post as many entries as you wish. However, as we found with the February competition there were so many headlines in the poll that we received only a few votes. To get around that I am proposing that you make as many entries as you wish and then select the entry you want included in the poll.

That way the poll will be more manageable and hopefully we will get more members voting.

I thinks it's better f you limit it to one article per person then we don't upset Maria again
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Originally Posted by The Joker
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I thinks it's better f you limit it to one article per person then we don't upset Maria again
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Do you mean one entry in the posts or one entry in the poll?

Just a thought but a headline as in February competition was a rather easy task and you got lots of entries. Now if we go back to January competition because the blog writing took a bit more effort it reflected in the small number of entries. So if March competition follows same trend I think the number of entries will be considerably less than February competition. If that's the case then my opinion would be not to restrict number of entries.

Maybe the idea would be to say if we get x number of entries then all are eligible but if we get more than x number then each person can only have one entry in the poll.

HA HA
Hi Folks
I think Joker's comment was his way of trying to wind Maria up.
However.... Maria is Queen and is only caring for the needs of the members. Maria makes good sensible comments and the more I think about them the more sense she makes so good on you Maria.
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I too think that having just one submission will enable the judges and mods to have more time for themselves. Maybe if people want to practice they can use the blog facility and others can chip in by leaving their comments in the blogs area. Then when it gets time to submit the entry propper it is submitted as a post in the appropriate thread namely the March competition thread.
I don't know how practical this would be or if it would be desirable to do it this way but I was also thinking that maybe the efforts could actually become a mini go article resource type of thing for members to use for their projects e-mail campaigns etc (just thinking out loud that's all).
best wishes
vtp

PS Just thought of a cracking prize...12months mortgage payment or 12months home shopping bill paid. I bet the girls would like the latter!
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Originally Posted by keries
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Just a thought but a headline as in February competition was a rather easy task and you got lots of entries. Now if we go back to January competition because the blog writing took a bit more effort it reflected in the small number of entries. So if March competition follows same trend I think the number of entries will be considerably less than February competition. If that's the case then my opinion would be not to restrict number of entries.

Maybe the idea would be to say if we get x number of entries then all are eligible but if we get more than x number then each person can only have one entry in the poll.

I agree that writing an article of say 300 words is much more effort than writing a 17 word headline so we would get far fewer entries.

Bill came up with an idea for a simple competition task as well as the article writing one.

That way:

• You can enter the simple task to be considered for prize A
• Write an article to be considered for prize B
• Enter the simple part plus wrrite an article to be considered for prize C

That way we should get lots of entries for the simple part and probably less entries for the article writing part.

I am now waiting for Kevin and Paul to give their views on the structure of the competition.

Just doing some more thinking and came up with the KISS method

Even the things that look complicated are just lots of simple things put together
so just keep it simple.

I think also being focused on just one thing will produce the most participants more things to do will or may cause confusion and as we know confused people don't do anything
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or crash
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Question.... Do articles have pictures in them or are they just text?

best wishes
vtp

Me winding people up (never)
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I agree though Maria rocks
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I know whatever the admins think of will be great and can't wait to get str=arted to try and make this comp a hat-trick whoooop whoooooo

Write 500 & then we can all take a couple of weeks holiday to read them...
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Originally Posted by The Joker
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Are we right in saying that this competition is limited to one article or, can i write multiple??????
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But i only did 499 for the headline comp
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Oh yeh, did you see that i won????????
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I was waiting with 2000 of them to enter the last day but was caught out by by own scheming as the short month was cut even shorter when the thread was closed before the end of the month

It is a good job it was or poor Reed would still be sorting them.
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My plan was based on the last will be remembered first principle just like the star attraction at gigs get to go on stage last.

What is also true though is that if you don't enter you can't win. Now if the numbers that enter gets to be a problem ie more prizes than entrants we could all win prizes and this will send a message to other members that if you want a prize just enter. To encourage more entrants the winners can give feedback to show how good the prizes really are. Further to that by acting with and upon the prizes how the progress of individuals can be seen.

Meanwhile I wonder what the subject will be
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best wishes
vtp

I know I was really shocked to see you win with just 499 entries!
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Have you noticed the change in Reed lately...
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Originally Posted by The Joker
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But i only did 499 for the headline comp
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Oh yeh, did you see that i won????????
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Good thing it actually closed early Vince.

I actually had a dream and came up with no 500 but when I logged on it was closed too. I even wrote it down in the middle of the night but have since scrapped it.

It went something like this

To tall to reach the grass, too short to reach the trees but just right to reach EMMC!

No I didn't dream of winning though just silly headlines.

Seriously Bill's idea sounds good as you need something people can do quickly to keep the momentum going.

Problem with article writing most people strive for the perfect article with great grammar, great words etc but the ones that seem to work best are written how we normally communicate and think. Written about 5th or 6th grade level I suppose one could put it.

Yes and you were the first to let me know and get your details over. No messing around with you Joker.

Kevin

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The March Competition is now Open