Baden

Three days until voting ends! Then we'll announce the winning story and play "guess the author". :nerd:

Not sure, but my guess is we have a couple of hundred regularly active members. I wouldn't expect more than 10% of them to be interested enough to rea...

Takes a while to read all those stories and vote. If we get two dozen votes or more, I think we're doing good.

Anyhow, reminder that the poll closes in six days. I do encourage everyone to read all the stories and vote.

There's no rule against it though I wouldn't want to encourage it either.

Freakin' knew this would happen.

I thought it was kind of funny, but, ok, changed.

Hm, it's almost like you're questioning my interpersonal skills? :chin: :grin:

Periodic reminder that the stories are here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/categories/37/short-story-competition

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Never formally studied lit at uni. Science and social science were my subject areas.

Be careful what you wish for. :naughty:

:up: Btw, I reckon the standard of critique on the stories is very good so far. Thanks for making the effort to those who have. Because I know who wro...

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I'll consider rearranging things the next time. Hoping to do this twice a year. I'd rather not interfere now when things have kicked off though.

Let's do a poll to find out if we should go ahead with that. No, better do 3. :up:

It's a simple poll. Everyone who wants to chooses their favourite story (if they have one). Fair and straightforward. And the poll cannot be changed a...

Would definitely be nice to have more options when setting up polls like this, but this is all we got, sorry.

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Done.

I don't want to monopolize the front page with non-philosophical threads. But I'll periodically post reminders here.

As if that would stop you dick voting. :angry:

We should have a 'guess who wrote what' game after voting is closed. :naughty:

Let's not argue about it. My main message is to have fun with this whole thing.

It doesn't make much sense to say your story is seen as "complete trash" after one negative comment.

The forum software provides us with a simple poll. We don't have additional options. One poster, one vote. It's fair enough anyhow, I think.

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Tl;dr. It's an honour thing. Don't be a dick. Nobody likes a dick.

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Your main competition is yourself and your yardstick the things you truly see as important. Keep the focus on that and you can't go too far wrong.

So far, at least, the comments have been very charitable. Oh, I meant to put a deadline in the OP. Let's say Aug 15th.

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Anytime. https://thephilosophyforum.com/categories/37/short-story-competition

Sorry, doesn't work like that, and no lollipops either. :wink: Anyway, the poll is here. Go vote!

Relax, you're not being judged by the literati but by a bunch of forum anons having a laugh.

Good advice. I'm going to leave a little time for posters to digest the stories before I put the poll up anyhow. Well done to everyone for partaking. ...

Yep.

I invite entrants to check there story is there and is formatted as they sent it to me. Any enquiries, PM me. Please don't give yourself away publical...

Starting to post the stories here. You can comment if you like. I'll put the poll up when all the stories have been posted.

Entries now closed. Think we got about a dozen buns in the oven though. Will be serving them up within a day or so. :party:

Right after you arrived.

I'm not on UTC time either as it happens. But it's a handy yardstick.

Deadline in six hours, folks.

As @"frank" said.

We just get a message that the post has been flagged. That's it. To make this world a better place, ser.

Oh that's cool :cool:

Yep.

And yet they now make the US look lacking. Not good, eh?

I live in a small town of a couple of thousand and about 5% of the population are asylum seekers to the best of my knowledge. I don't see any problem ...