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Season 2 - the kinks

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RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: MellzBellz on October 05, 2008, 02:44:23 PM ---Yea I agree with Julie. I mean I wasn't a judge last year, but it seemed like you were able to split up the categories pretty fairly among the judges. No one judged a category they were nominated for. I think if you say that judges can't be nominated no one would want to judge.

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Oh, I'm sure some people would still judge... and take advantage of the opportunity to say, "Look how much I don't care about winning an award!  I'm going to sacrifice the opportunity to be nominated just so I can dedicate hours of my time to reading other people's stories!"

Please.  Everyone enjoys getting a nomination, whether you really care about winning or not.  It's an honor.  It says that someone deems your story worthy, and that is always a nice feeling.  No one here would be posting their stories on AC if they didn't enjoy the recognition.  I don't see the need to encourage "martyrs" by disqualifying judges from being nominated at all.

mare:
Alright, it was just a thought lol If everyone is okay with it then I am too. I just don't want to give anyone a reason to cry foul because you know they will, if not here then somewhere else.

RokofAges75:
Oh, of course LOL.  But they would have no reason for it.  Judging one category and being judged in another have nothing to do with each other.  If someone's going to be biased on their judging, they'd be biased whether their friend was another judge or not.  But hopefully the rubric cuts down on that as much as possible.

As far as the rubric goes, maybe this year there could be a place where you have to add just one line that explains why you gave the score you did for each category... either that or a place at the end for a general comment about the story.  For example, if you give a story a 3 out of 5 for grammar, you could write something like, "The story was readable, but there were a lot of incorrectly-punctuated run-on sentences that really took away from the flow, along with other typos and errors."  Then if the author requested to see the score sheet later on and was like, "What!?  My grammar is impeccable!  Why did I only get a 3?" they would know.  As someone who judged last year, I don't think it would be asking too much of the judges... it would basically just be putting into words what should already be going through your head anyway.

nicksgal:
^I wrote a little note like that for every story that I judged. :)

mare:
^ I agree. I think judges comments are important.

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