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I don't know why Freddie bothers with alts. He can easily be identified after only a post or two.
Sorry, Annie Alt, blame it on my blonde hair, but perhaps you can point out to everyone all the attacks made by me, just a few posts later, that wasn't instigated by you and others because I can't find any.
Maybe if you just minded you own business and stopped attacking me, I'd stop kicking you in the ass.
Is it absolutely necessary to post "Survivor Contest 2012" in the notes section of the story? I'm not seeing my stories approved any faster, if anything they seem to be approving slower, because by placing notes in the field, it sends the story to a live person, instead of allowing the "bots" to place it - right?
If I don't have to put "Survivor Contest 2012" in the notes field, except closer to the end of the contest, then could I possibly get my stories posted faster?
Thanks.
You only have to put that in the note field toward the end of the year. The rest of the time, you can just post them as normal. I have no idea if doing that makes approval slower or faster.
Thanks.
I'll test out the "Note" and "no note" theory on my next submission. So far all my work is going into a 70 + view before being approved and there really isn't anything "odd" about any of them, and only one I truly need someone to read and make a decision on the category for me, because it covered a wide range of topics in a short amount of words 10K.
You've missed all the discussion about this. Those "views" are a glitch. Nobody's actually looking at your story while those accumulate.
I've never noticed having a note in the notes section changing the approval speed, but no sense putting it in there if you don't need it, as Crim said.
The approval rate is running about 5 days right now, as opposed to 3 as it's been for a couple of years now. So what may seem slow to you may in fact be the new ( current ) norm.
Is it absolutely necessary to post "Survivor Contest 2012" in the notes section of the story? I'm not seeing my stories approved any faster, if anything they seem to be approving slower, because by placing notes in the field, it sends the story to a live person, instead of allowing the "bots" to place it - right?
If I don't have to put "Survivor Contest 2012" in the notes field, except closer to the end of the contest, then could I possibly get my stories posted faster?
Thanks.
In previous years, it did make a difference. I have included that note and got stories posted as if they were theme contest entries. Last year, I did submit one story in late Dec. and it took four or five days. At that time, everything was taking longer, so it might have made some diff. but not much.
In the case of theme contest entries, being sent to a live person does seem to expedite them.
Allow chapters.
Honestly, I probably won't write a chaptered story, I just want to not be afraid to write more than one story about the same character.
I'm sure you don't, but it's amazing how your opinion isn't actually the deciding ruling factor. As far as I understand it, merely using the same characters will involve your story being determined a chapter, even if Joe is twelve years older.So long as your story is a separate stand alone story that is not a continuation of another larger story, I don't see any problem with using the same character in another, new story.
I'm sure you don't, but it's amazing how your opinion isn't actually the deciding ruling factor. As far as I understand it, merely using the same characters will involve your story being determined a chapter, even if Joe is twelve years older.
People will abuse rules or lacks thereof. I think it may not be a case of "we need to add chapters" but, "we need to define a complete qualifying story in a simple manner and then make that a rule." That may very well mean "a beginning, a sex scene, a conclusion/orgasm" on this site, and I think those qualifications should be good enough for Survivor, and good enough to prevent this "nonsensical chapter chopping" that is apparently such a huge problem to make what appears to me to be 80% of the stories on the site disqualified from this contest. (I'm not even kidding. I hate reading chaptered stories on here and I can rarely find good one-offs. D: ) And stories being miscatagorized (such as Crim's "mention of a crossdresser") is really up to the mods who are allowing the stories to be posted... after all, they're supposed to be reviewing to make sure the content is A-okay and in the right category. I'm not entirely sure that's the Survivor contest's job to police since stories are under what appears to be strict approval... or they wouldn't take so darn long to post. D:
I kind of hate that a quantity-over-quality contest needs so many rules. I really wish it were just "if you can get it approved by the site mods as a story, it counts; whoever gets the most of them weeeens!"
I don't write chapter stories and I agree with your low opinion of the chapter stories posted on the site. It appears that those who write chapter stories cannot write, so why bring chapter stories into Survivor?
I write chapter stories and I write very well - and yes saying that may make me vain, but when a person knows they can do something and do it well, they are allowed to be a little vain.
I changed my vote back to no chapters this time around and from chapters on the poll vote because I'm back and forth on the issue. I see the positives and the negatives.
My idea answer would be allow one chapter per category and only one, no matter what cap it is, there is only one chapter allowed - period. But I'm going with "no chapters" because the system will be abused.
Yes Freddie.
This isn't the place to argue - just to vote. We can never make everyone happy but this is a contest that is quantity over quality. End of story.