Literary Artists + Administration

[Ubiquitous]

I have been speaking with Apathy about changing near everything about contests. He told me to post my ideas. I am going to bed soon, so I am going to keep this short and to the point.

LOTM is boring. It is overused. So, I told Apathy to come up with a new contest. In the process I though of a new contest and contest rotation. Instead of having the same contest monthly, we create four custom contests and rotate through them. Here is one idea.
Users are to create a country, its people, and its history since it was created. All countries were created 100 years before their writing begins and they should include all major events, the resources, its people, politics, et cetera. The more complete the more points they receive, the winners receive an additional amount of points. This brings us to my second idea.

Instead of having a winner-take-all type contest, everyone receives points. Points can be cashed for different things. Each contest the winner can receive a maximum of 1,500 points. Everyone gets points for making a serious entry. Some reward ideas:

1,000 points - Custom user title (One use and bare)
5,000 points - Custom user title (Up to two edits and HTML)
If Danno was nice enough - 15,000 points - One month premium

I will go into more detail when I am not as tired. Discuss.

 

[Usul]

Hm.

Seems entirely too specific. The point of the Literary Arts is to let the users creativity flow. The nice thing about LOTM was we could make a broad requirement, and people could work wonders with it.

Although, I do like the points system. I think in general contest should no longer be winner take all.

 

[Ubiquitous]

Hm.

Seems entirely too specific. The point of the Literary Arts is to let the users creativity flow. The nice thing about LOTM was we could make a broad requirement, and people could work wonders with it.

Although, I do like the points system. I think in general contest should no longer be winner take all.

This is extremely broad. You can go anywhere. You're creating a country from scratch. You design everything about it, excluding the age (100 years). I also came up with another possible contest. Members are given a vague object, in example a ring, and are told to describe it. Whoever gives the best description (most clarity allowing someone to actually see it, feel it, smell it, taste it) wins the most points.