gene.sis
CHYOA Guru
Well, in a way.@gene.sis Is that (a note in the search results) even possible?
The language of the contest story will be set to German, so any update will appear in the given search link anyway.
Maybe the general announcement could be put at the top of German stories' chapters instead of at the top of the main page. That way, it would reach both writers and readers of German content and would not appear for users who aren't interested in German content.
I'm not sure whether we can do that, though.
We had two judges last year and used Likes as well. (I think we used an average for stories with multiple chapters.)I would suggest three judges: two permanent judges and one reader rating, perhaps based on likes. Of course, this would only work if the story consists of only one chapter.
The issue with Likes is that it doesn't really measure how good a story is, but rather how popular it is. It is also more likely that a popular author gets more Likes than an unknown author, as users might read the content of the popular one but not the content of the unknown one. (In general, I would prefer a different rating system where Likes are divided by Unique User Views.)
So I would prefer having judges only. (Two or more.)
They also don't have to be permanent. If someone does it this year doesn't mean they have to do it next year. And if someone is a judge now, it doesn't mean they couldn't participate in a future contest as an author.
Maybe ask possible candidates directly through direct messages. There might be users who think they are not qualified to do the job and therefore won't react.Unfortunately not yet. There has also been no response to my “advertising banners” so far.
Besides authors, I could very well imagine users who provide feedback in comments (I know that's rather rare.)
As soon as we have a second judge, I'm good to go.
As for participants, I thought about some things that could be done. For example, the time limit could be variable, like one or two months after ten authors have submitted the minimum amount of words.