Originally Posted by lamchopz
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I agree with what Blaahs said. Also note that the word limit doesn't have to be strict and a reasonable degree of variation is often allowed. Say if the word limit is 800 words, an entry that is 840 words long (5% over the limit) is still acceptable. However, if it's 900 words long (12.5% over the limit), that is a bit excessive and needs to be revised. This is just an example only.
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Yeah.
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Well..
My
original intention for word limit was:
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Maybe a tighter min and max so it isn't either too short or too long, but one that permisses a wide range in-between.
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so that votes will probably be more fair since the readers would either have read all or none of them.
I know that we can't always monitor people's vote, and there will always be votes that are casted for biased reasons, but I reckon it would sort of minimise the "tl;dr so it doesn't get my vote" kind for thing. Even if a story may be way too long and not turn out great, the person who wrote it would've put effort into it so it's kind of sad their entries were not read by voters.
But since a lot seem to think word limits limit creativity too much, then my
next suggestion would be have word limits on certain weeks as a challenge.
There'll all just suggestions/ideas though. /shrug