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Post by Hermes on Apr 8, 2016 10:05:29 GMT -5
we didn't like Best Writer because people wanted to nominate individual stories, we didn't like Best Story because people wanted to nominate more than stories, what was wrong with Best Writing? A number of 667er articles were nominated, as well as the 667er itself, which was a tad confusing. Yes. I pushed for Best Writing because I felt it should cover things other than stories (Lady Grantham had won in the past for poetry): but in the end I think it covered too much, and stories were rather crowded out. I now actually wonder if we should go back to Best Writer and Best Story - this was a bit silly when Best Writer was always given for stories, but makes sense if it isn't. But that would involve dropping something else, so would be too big a change to make right now.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Apr 8, 2016 15:17:45 GMT -5
I think it would be unfair to have two awards just for writing and drop one of the others instead. But I thought of something else: Maybe we could count poetry as art, so people who write poetry could be nominated for Best Artist? There is less "actual" art (i.e. pictures and stuff) than there used to be, and Best Artist has always been one of the categories with the least nominations in the last few years. The question is what we could do about things like 667er columns, which I wouldn't call art but they are also not stories.
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Post by Hermes on Apr 8, 2016 16:05:50 GMT -5
Well, we don't have much poetry anyway, so counting it as art would not change things much.
I think we should keep Best Artist as it is, to encourage art. I'm fairly sure we have quite a lot of artists here (witness DH's art competition a little while ago); it's just that they don't think of 667 as a place to post their art. (What we really need is to get Emma back, of course. That would help fiction, as well. But anyway...)
Perhaps if we said Best Writing was for creative writing - i.e. fiction, poetry, drama? If the 667er is having its own competition, that can cover journalism (though I'm wondering what Mister M means by 'a few other things too'). I think one of Dante's reviews was nominated, but that could just be treated as helping to qualify him for Best Volunteer.
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Post by Hermes on Apr 12, 2016 7:16:36 GMT -5
Are we going to have a poll on Best Writing?
Also, there was some discussion in the Penthouse on possible changes to the rules for Best New Member - is anything being planned there?
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Apr 12, 2016 8:05:27 GMT -5
I will make threads for both of these. It's always a bit of a chaos when people discuss several things in one thread.
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Post by BSam on Apr 14, 2016 5:39:39 GMT -5
i'm always about for whatever needs doing as usual
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Apr 15, 2016 12:23:34 GMT -5
I'm going to be busy doing the National Exams during the Darkies, and will be back and ready to do banners.
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