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The Sarcasm Fairy
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So... how does voting work? *is still a huge noob*
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Darth Vader is my co-pilot
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Is easy! You read all the entries, mull 'em over, and pick your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favorites.
Ideally your email or PM will have your votes at the top, e.g. 1st - Untitled #3 2nd - Cool For Cats 3rd - Sometimes They Come Back ...'cause some poor sucker has got to add them thar votes up and figger out the results! Critique comments are very welcome. Tell the authors what worked for you and what didn't work for you. Tell them what grabbed you by the throat and demanded you keep reading, or what turned you off. Point out brilliant prose. Point out clunky prose that doesn't quite do the biz. Just waiting for a couple of last-moment slowpokes. The entries should be with y'all soon...-Derek
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Drifting Silently
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Those slow pokes >.<
Are these the titles of this month's entry, Derek? Lol! They look like actual names to me
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Alright then!
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Darth Vader is my co-pilot
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Stiiiiilll waiting but will give up soon and go ahead with what I've got, so sad.
Vote for Cool For Cats, folks, it's the best of them all, clearly! -Derek
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You know my achilies heel, Derek. I absolutely love cats
put me one for Cool For Cats
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Darth Vader is my co-pilot
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Thanks Ehab!
Entries have been emailed, shout if any problems. Except you, Jaws. You can just wave your arms around. -Derek
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The Sarcasm Fairy
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You know I forgot to ask if we're allowed to vote for our own entry...
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Yes you can, I think. But I don't think anyone actually has done that before
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No you are flippin' not allowed to vote for your own entry, and even thinking about the very concept of the merest possibility of doing so busts my brain!
-Derek
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I wasn't going to anyway I was just curious...
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The Sarcasm Fairy
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Well I wasn't going to put myself first...
Maybe second
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Ooooh, it's on!
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You know, everyone seems to think that it's funny that I asked this, but it was a genuine question. I don't usually vote for myself, but I just wondered if it's allowed and if people do it in the BOC or if it's discouraged. You know, out of genuine curiousity. I won't do it either way because that's just not me, but I wanted to know if it's allowed or not.
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/me stamps on Debbie and Ehab
Please don't vote for your own entry, people! Thank you! -Derek
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/me looks at Derek and licks his wounds, then looks at Debbie all heart broken.
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Don't worry about it, Psychomacologist.
Eons ago, when the contest was invented, it used to be that entrants could earn bonus points for critiquing all the entries. The number of bonus points awarded would be the equivalent of a 1st-place vote for their own entry.The rules of the contest vary with whoever is the Admin; some award bonus points, some don't. The don't-vote-for-yourself rule remained as an unspoken one. I think you're the first person who has asked, and it was a sensible question.
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Sophia, our very own Sophia, is now a moderator. Well, well, well.
Oh and eons ago, Sophia was running the BOC. ahem. |
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Raphee, nice to see you back here
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Guys, it's coming up on the end of the month. Who's up next in the September crit seat?
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BOC votes and comments by midnight Friday, please! -Derek
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