Short Story Contest #2 Poll

[brad.dude03]

Finally! What you've all been waiting for.... the poll! Vote for your favourite story. Please read through every submission before voting, and place your vote based on these categories:

Plot: Was the plot well thought out? Did it fit with the warcraft universe? Did it seem realistic, or was it so outlandish that it would never actually happen?

Structure: Is the story written in proper novel format? Does it use paragraphs and proper sentence structure?

Grammar: Are there any spelling or grammar mistakes? Are there only a few? Are there so many that they keep cropping up annoyingly and ruining your reading experience? Are there none that you notice?

Enjoyment: Did you enjoy the story? There's no point in voting for a story if you didn't enjoy it when you read it.

Here are the entries:

Undead Lives - The Taint On Perfection http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=303289&postcount=21

Edhel-dur - The Emerald Twins
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=304281&postcount=39

Horror.Man - The Emerald Dream
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=306668&postcount=45

HermantheGibbon - The Scattered Dream
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=306836&postcount=51

And last but not least:

Anetherond - My Story
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=307303&postcount=57

May the best story win!

Please note that entrants MAY NOT vote for themselves.

 

[HermanTheGibbon]

Whoot! I thought you had died a most gruesome death brad.dude when this poll didn't pop up for a while. Anyway, I hope we get a decent amount of voters, and good luck everyone!

 

[Horror.Man]

lmao. Sorry, I voted for myself. I didn't see that last note at the end. You should put it at the top of the post in yellow or something. My apologies.

 

[brad.dude03]

Well, I'll just have to discount a vote when we tally the results.

 

[Undead_Lives]

Looks like anetherond has taken the lead! :O

 

[HermanTheGibbon]

Hmmm, I didn't know entrants were allowed to vote at all, but I take it by the fact that we aren't allowed to vote for our selves, that we can still vote for one another. Dang, that means I guess I will have to be chilvalrous and vote for somebody else once I reveiwed all the stories

 

[Undead_Lives]

No, I don't think we're allowed to vote for one another either.

 

[anetherond]

I confused, are the contesters allowed to vote or not?

 

[Horror.Man]

Doesn't exactly make sense that we're not allowed to vote for ourselves, but we're allowed to vote for other contestants.. I'd rather just not vote. haha. Nor does it make sense that moderators are allowed to vote.. who knows if corruption is still alive and well?

 

[anetherond]

Doesn't exactly make sense that we're not allowed to vote for ourselves, but we're allowed to vote for other contestants.. I'd rather just not vote. haha. Nor does it make sense that moderators are allowed to vote.. who knows if corruption is still alive and well?

Voting for yourself is selfish and pointless since you already believe that your work is the best. It isn't a bad thing to show respect to the best contester, except you, by voting for his work. If your story is the truly the best, one vote is insignificant. If it doesn't then it will not be fair and ethical to vote for it, since it's not the best.

 

[HermanTheGibbon]

lol OK maybe I won't vote for someone else Judging by the current standing of the poll I think we are going to be hard pushed for 10 votes by the 20th so maybe 1 vote will be significant Anyway, I guess if we were allowed to vote for ourselves, then we would all do so and just create a 1 all tie straight away so I can see why it would be a bit pointless to allow it.

 

[brad.dude03]

This is precisely why I was hesitant to even hold a second Short Story contest.

 

[Undead_Lives]

Too many contestants, not enough voters imo.

 

[HermanTheGibbon]

Well ya, only 3 days to go and only 4 proper votes Looks like Antherond wins lol. I guess it's a tricky contest to hold successfully, as on the one hand, you want enough contestants to make a worthwhile contest, but on the other, I am guessing that most voters can probably not be bothered to read through more than 3 or so stories! Perhaps a eunanimous (rofl spelling!?) decision made by a few devoted judges may have been a better option?

Off topic: BTW brad I see by your user title you have read the new Harry Potter, WHOOT! Were you surprised to find out who it is that is killed?!?! I know I was after Child Line took on extra staff and everything ready for the hordes of greif stricken children lmao!

 

[brad.dude03]

... I read the 7th book weeks ago when it came out. In nine and a half hours. I just reread the series again, though.

And Undead_lives, we only have oh... I dunno.... FIVE THOUSAND ACTIVE USERS. The least they could do was stop by and vote, but no, we never get any votes.

 

[Wolverabid]

[off-topic]

In order to publicize the Short Story Contest #2 Poll I have:

• Moved the thread to the Arena Contests forum then moved it back here leaving a redirect for the duration of the poll.
  
  
• Created a calendar event that will be shown on the forum index and contests calendar.

 

[brad.dude03]

Why thank you kind sir

 

[Undead_Lives]

Cool. Still brad, the point is not the number of users. The point is that 4,990 of those users are too lazy to read 5 stories

Oh well, can probably say grats Anetherond I still don't like my story. Should've dropped out and voted instead.

 

[HermanTheGibbon]

only 6 measly votes Oh well, congratulations Antherond I take it we won't be seeing any more of these contests in the future? lol

 

[brad.dude03]

Nope, it was upon Wolverabid's insistance that we had this Second contest. Not enough people are interested in something like this.

 

[Undead_Lives]

The first one was good (in the number of votes) but I think this one was too soon after that first one, so there was no anticipation.

 

[anetherond]

In the first one few of the contesters voted too, so it doesn't count.
I am glad that I have won, but I want to hear people comments about the story. If you have any thing to say, please tell me.

 

[Undead_Lives]

Last time only you and The wand mirror voted. Which means there were eight votes, better than 5.

 

[anetherond]

Last time only you and The wand mirror voted. Which means there were eight votes, better than 5.

Alright, you proved your point. You won the last competition, Undead lives. What do you think about my story? Did you like it? And if not, why?

 

[Undead_Lives]

Honestly, I only skimmed it XD I didn't really read the other stories. I'll check it out when I have the time.

 

[Wolverabid]

Congratulations Anetherond and all authors!

The reputation awards have been meted out, I upped them slightly:

• Anetherond: +15
• Horror.Man: +10
• Everyone Else: +5

brad gets some when the next contest begins!

 

[Horror.Man]

Honestly, I only skimmed it XD I didn't really read the other stories. I'll check it out when I have the time.

The above statement is unbelievable. I can't fathom how I felt when I read that... I can only hope the majority of the hive actually read the stories.

Congratulations, Anetherond. You deserve it. I liked the story, but please work on your paragraph structure. It was hurting my eyes to read line-line-line-line-line-line-line. Then there would be unnecessary breaks in between paragraphs. They're not major mistakes, just try to improve. Great work.

 

[Undead_Lives]

:O
I didn't read the stories! :O

Good thing I didn't vote. >.> If you didn't notice, I'm one of the participants.

 

[brad.dude03]

Horror.Man your story was definetly the better formatted one, but Anetherond was more original with his story, and I liked it better for that. Excellent work for the both of you, though

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