Bonjour, Forum!
Let's kick the off the first monthly story contest of 2016! There were a lot of great stories kindly shared at the forum in the previous month. I'm looking forward to this poll!
Please vote for your favorite story among those posted at the forum in January, 2016. Check out the table below for reference.
NOTE: before proceeding I would like to ask you to only participate in this poll if you have read at least 3 of the nominated stories. If you haven't, please go on and read some of the stories before voting, in order to be fair to the authors.
Stories in this month's poll:
25 (
▲4) ←
new record
Quality index (thanks per story):
7.4 (
▲1.5)
The guidelines of the monthly contest:
- the contest for a particular month starts on the 3rd day of the following month and closes on the 13th day, giving 10 full days to readers to vote
- in order to be eligible for the poll, the story (1) needs to be posted in its entirety at the forum, and not on an external page and only linked to through the forum, it (2) needs to be at least 600 words AND 3000 characters long, and (3) has to receive at least 3 thanks by the time of the contest start
- each author (poster) can be represented no more than twice in one poll; in case a user has posted more than two stories within the previous month, the two most popular posts of his / her will be chosen based on the amount of thanks each story has received
- each ongoing series can be represented in no more than two monthly contests
- only those users that have read 3 or more of the contesting stories should participate in the poll; because this cannot be enforced, users are asked to self-censor
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NEW if equal amount of votes are received by the end of poll by any two or more stories contesting for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place, the winner will be determined by amount of thanks received (suggested by @
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The following are the nominees in chronological order. The table is sortable, just click on the column you want to sort by.
When casting your vote for the story of the month, along with
literary qualities,
originality, and your
personal taste, I suggest considering
exclusiveness of a story an important factor in your voting decision. I think the fact that some authors publish their stories for the first time on this forum should be celebrated. For this to work well I would like to ask the authors that post exclusive content to include a relevant note at the beginning of their posts.
Feel free to let other members know in reply which story is your favorite and why.
Votes received: 52 (▼18)
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