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Good day, Forum!

It's time for the monthly story contest!

We have completed a full year of story contests. I would like to make a change at this point to how the winner is determined. This seems logical at this point considering how few votes were received for the last contest. Instead of using the voting system, we will use the thanks system this time. It simplifies the contest, and I personally think that the thanks system is more credible when it comes to determining the most appreciated story of the month. The story with the most thanks after 10 days will be the winner.

So, if you haven't done so yet, please go and thank your favorite stories among those posted at the forum in October, 2016. Check out the table below for reference.

NOTE: I would like to ask you to read at least several of the participating stories and thank the ones you like, in order to be fair to the authors. Please thank ALL the stories that you enjoyed, just as you would normally do, not just the one you want to see as the winner. This way the winner of the contest will be determined more naturally.

Stories in this month's poll: 18 (1)
Quality index (thanks per story): 7.4 (0.8)

The guidelines of the monthly contest:

- the contest for a particular month starts on the first week of the following month and closes 10 days later, giving 10 full days to readers to thank the stories they haven't thanked yet
- the winner will be determined by total amount of thanks upon poll closure
- in order to be eligible for the contest, (1) the story needs to be posted in its entirety at the forum, and not on an external page and only linked to through the forum or as an attachment, (2) it 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 contest; 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
- if equal amount of thanks are received by the end of contest by any two or more stories contesting for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place, the winner will be the story that was posted later and had less total days to accumulate thanks

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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.

#Story titlePosted byDate postedThanks received as of 05/NovTotal thanks on 16/Nov
1[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]01/Oct33
2[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]02-23/Oct55
3[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]03/Oct44
4[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]06/Oct2024
5[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]06-13/Oct89
6[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]07-29/Oct55
7[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]08/Oct33
8[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]12/Oct44
9[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]14-15/Oct1415
10[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]14/Oct1212
11[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]17/Oct55
12[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]19-29/Oct78
13[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]20/Oct78
14[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]20/Oct45
15[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]20/Oct910
16[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]21/Oct1620
17[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]24/Oct46
18[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]@[Only Registered Users Can See LinksClick Here To Register]29/Oct33

When thanking a story, 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.

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