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Title: 2023 January Caption Contest Poll
Post by: Jezebel on January 30, 2023, 05:14:09 AM
Well okay hmmm.... The entries dropped way off... Well shoot!




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Title: Re: 2023 Januaryr Caption Contest Poll
Post by: Jezebel on January 30, 2023, 05:14:56 AM
Okay, this raises a question. Should I pick the "spell" everyone caps? Ideas?
Title: Re: 2023 Januaryr Caption Contest Poll
Post by: JaySeaver on January 30, 2023, 05:27:13 AM
I don't know that tightening the restrictions further will necessarily inspire more people.  It's super-quiet in the regular trading section, so it just be a moment where folks are busy.

The only thing I'd suggest is to maybe lean more towards clarity than whimsy with the instructions in future months.  I don't know how much digging through a lot of verbiage puts people off, but it's a little extra work for people to get into it.
Title: Re: 2023 January Caption Contest Poll
Post by: Rene Narciso on January 31, 2023, 05:44:33 AM
It's still January 31... I was going to write a caption. Drat...
Title: Re: 2023 January Caption Contest Poll
Post by: Rene Narciso on January 31, 2023, 06:16:48 AM
But seeing as we can choose any of the magical words in any month, I'll post my entry in the February contest anyway...

I second Jay's commentary that people are basically too lazy to read through a wall of text.  :-[ But I did find the magical phrases themselves to be very easy to write captions for, it's just that I've been super-busy this month. But I do have an idea that I was about to write. As I said, I may start working on it as soon as the February contest begins.
Title: Re: 2023 January Caption Contest Poll
Post by: Jezebel on January 31, 2023, 06:43:30 AM
I will take the fluff out of February's. I did the fluff since that was the first one of the year and different.