Originally posted by royalchickenI don't believe we had any plagiarism but after a couple of years it did sort of evolve into cliques of people voting for each other instead of voting for the actual poems. So we finally dropped it.
I like that idea. I should offer some sort of reward or title for the winner (there were two verse competitions about a year ago, but they were marred by plagiarism).
Originally posted by DelmerThat's true. If something like a title were at stake, people might do that (although Whale Father only knows why), so I'll try to strike some balance between fairness and giving people some incentive to enter.
I don't believe we had any plagiarism but after a couple of years it did sort of evolve into cliques of people voting for each other instead of voting for the actual poems. So we finally dropped it.
Originally posted by DelmerWere people told before voting who had written the poems? Or was it just easy to guess after a while, when people got to know each other's style?
I don't believe we had any plagiarism but after a couple of years it did sort of evolve into cliques of people voting for each other instead of voting for the actual poems. So we finally dropped it.
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Originally posted by royalchickenOk heres my votes.
You read them, and then pick your favourite three. Of those three, you rate each on a scale of 1 (worst of the favourite 3) to 10 (best).
Thank Whale for another voter, and thank you for voting!
Yesterday 8
The poetry of Alcohol 5 (good idea wasted by the incohearent spelling)
Evolution 4 (i dont get the element symbolism - copper ?{its not right})
I would just have picked Yesterday but thats not what i was asked to do, i would say that yesterday was a gem in a pile of mediocre. . . and i'm guessing Starman wrote it. I hope theres no offence taken with the criticism 🙂
Originally posted by NordlysWe all had our names on each poem. Maybe we could have avoided the cliques if the poems had been messaged to the contest coordinator and then posted unsigned. We never tried that.
Were people told before voting who had written the poems? Or was it just easy to guess after a while, when people got to know each other's style?
Originally posted by DelmerAh, cool. That's how these have been run (I took the idea from the PROSE COMPETITIONS), so I'll start an all-out competition for RHP Poet Laureate when this one is finished.
We all had our names on each poem. Maybe we could have avoided the cliques if the poems had been messaged to the contest coordinator and then posted unsigned. We never tried that.
The laughably bad author-identity guessing in this thread indicates that cliques are unlikely to develop.
Thanks for the votes, huckleberryhound.
