2023 January Caption Contest Poll

[Jezebel]

Well okay hmmm.... The entries dropped way off... Well shoot!

Spell #1: Where'd They Go

Spell #2: A Big Game

[Jezebel]

Okay, this raises a question. Should I pick the "spell" everyone caps? Ideas?

[JaySeaver]

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.

[Rene Narciso]

It's still January 31... I was going to write a caption. Drat...

[Rene Narciso]

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.

[Jezebel]

I will take the fluff out of February's. I did the fluff since that was the first one of the year and different.