User blog:Leopardclawxx/Attention All: An Important Blog About Contests

Please read this, and heed it. It's not a rule, nor a suggestion, just a little moan and plead, that I'm sure others think too. Probably. You can read the section that applies to you, if you only apply to one.

People Who Make Contests

Oh, making a contest sounds like fun! It may very well be fun, but there are things you have to consider and be responsible for. Make the hand in dates realistic. Seriously. For a charart contest, a couple of weeks should suffice, and a fanfic contest, maybe a couple of months. You can't expect users to magically write a story in a week, it won't happen. Judge when you say you will. If you say that you'll judge your contest three days after hand in, judge it three days after hand in. It is your responsibility to judge the contest, and if you don't, then why bother even making a contest in the first place?

People who enter contests

Hey, this contest sounds like fun, I'm in it! Yes, entering is fun, and it's great to know that you might win, but you have to consider things too. Make a commitment. Say you're gonna do it, do it. The people making the contest don't want to be chasing you around. In the real life, at school for example, you'd get told off for not hitting a deadline. Yes, this isn't real, yes, you're outside life is important too, but if you know that you're going away or you know you can't write a story in a month, don't enter.

I know I'm gonna probably get kicked in the shins for saying this, or ignored, but I felt it needed saying. I'm fed up of looking at contests that have only three out or ten entrants having actually entered, or contests that have been left unfinished because the person judging didn't do it yet.

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