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Postby Yoite » Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:42 am

Have we established how the judges will be evaluating the entries?
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Postby Alexlantis » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:24 am

Tagged, will post as soon as I can get into the mood for writing and finish my story. Then I shall post it here. Pretty obvious, but there you go.
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:10 am

Yoite wrote:Have we established how the judges will be evaluating the entries?

With multiple categories.

Other than that, no. :lol:
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Postby Nationstatelandsville » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:12 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Yoite wrote:Have we established how the judges will be evaluating the entries?

With multiple categories.

Other than that, no. :lol:


Oh... what category does Nat go in?

TELL HIM!
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Postby Yoite » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:15 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Yoite wrote:Have we established how the judges will be evaluating the entries?

With multiple categories.

Other than that, no. :lol:


I think we should evaluate every category that needs to be graded, assign a number of points based on significance in relation to the others, then add them up to your total score, if they make a strange number i'll have to increase them proportionally until they don't.
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Yoite wrote:I think we should evaluate every category that needs to be graded, assign a number of points based on significance in relation to the others, then add them up to your total score, if they make a strange number i'll have to increase them proportionally until they don't.

Characters - 15
Creativity - 15
Setting - 10
Plot - 10

How's that?
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:20 am

Nationstatelandsville wrote:Oh... what category does Nat go in?

TELL HIM!

Speaking more like "Multiple categories for grading a story"
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Postby Nationstatelandsville » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:24 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:Oh... what category does Nat go in?

TELL HIM!

Speaking more like "Multiple categories for grading a story"


Oh. OK.
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Postby Nationstatelandsville » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:25 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Yoite wrote:I think we should evaluate every category that needs to be graded, assign a number of points based on significance in relation to the others, then add them up to your total score, if they make a strange number i'll have to increase them proportionally until they don't.

Characters - 15
Creativity - 15
Setting - 10
Plot - 10

How's that?


Shouldn't plot be worth 15? First off, because plot is just as important as characters. Secondly, to make it an even 50.
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From a work to a work I was led to a work."
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Postby Yoite » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:25 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Yoite wrote:I think we should evaluate every category that needs to be graded, assign a number of points based on significance in relation to the others, then add them up to your total score, if they make a strange number i'll have to increase them proportionally until they don't.

Characters - 15
Creativity - 15
Setting - 10
Plot - 10

How's that?


We can add more, hmmm

Characters - 15 x5
Creativity/Originality - 10 x5
Setting - 10 x5
Plot - 15 x5
Grammar/Presentation - 10 x5

There, switched the scores from Creativity and plot, multiplied across by 5, we now have a nice round three hundred . . . .three hundred?
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:28 am

Nationstatelandsville wrote:Shouldn't plot be worth 15? First off, because plot is just as important as characters. Secondly, to make it an even 50.

15+15 = 30

10 + 10 = 20

30 + 20 = 50
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:29 am

Yoite wrote:We can add more, hmmm

Characters - 15
Creativity/Originality - 15
Setting - 10
Plot - 10
Grammar/Presentation - 10

well, at least one more, we'll let the other judges see if they can add some, but that seems good.

But that makes it 60. =(

If we're going to go over 50, might as well hit 100.
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Postby Yoite » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:30 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Yoite wrote:We can add more, hmmm

Characters - 15
Creativity/Originality - 15
Setting - 10
Plot - 10
Grammar/Presentation - 10

well, at least one more, we'll let the other judges see if they can add some, but that seems good.

But that makes it 60. =(

If we're going to go over 50, might as well hit 100.


I know, plus adding the extra 5 to plot makes it . . . .65 *shudder*
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Postby Nationstatelandsville » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:30 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:Shouldn't plot be worth 15? First off, because plot is just as important as characters. Secondly, to make it an even 50.

15+15 = 30

10 + 10 = 20

30 + 20 = 50


Bah.

Not the point. Plot is just as important, non?
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:32 am

Nationstatelandsville wrote:Bah.

Not the point. Plot is just as important, non?

Switch plot and creativity scores, then. "Good artists copy, great artists steal."
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Postby Nationstatelandsville » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:36 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:Bah.

Not the point. Plot is just as important, non?

Switch plot and creativity scores, then. "Good artists copy, great artists steal."


Who said that again?
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:37 am

Nationstatelandsville wrote:Who said that again?

With a saying like that, does it matter? :p
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Postby Yoite » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:37 am

Conserative Morality wrote:Characters - 15
Creativity - 15
Setting - 10
Plot - 10

How's that?


We can add more, hmmm

Characters - 15 x5
Creativity/Originality - 10 x5
Setting - 10 x5
Plot - 15 x5
Grammar/Presentation - 10 x5

There, switched the scores from Creativity and plot, multiplied across by 5, we now have a nice round three hundred . . . .three hundred?
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Postby Nationstatelandsville » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:39 am

Yoite wrote:
Conserative Morality wrote:Characters - 15
Creativity - 15
Setting - 10
Plot - 10

How's that?


We can add more, hmmm

Characters - 15 x5
Creativity/Originality - 10 x5
Setting - 10 x5
Plot - 15 x5
Grammar/Presentation - 10 x5

There, switched the scores from Creativity and plot, multiplied across by 5, we now have a nice round three hundred . . . .three hundred?


Sounds good to the Nat.
"Then I was fertilized and grew wise;
From a word to a word I was led to a word,
From a work to a work I was led to a work."
- Odin, Hávamál 138-141, the Poetic Edda, as translated by Dan McCoy.

I enjoy meta-humor and self-deprecation. Annoying, right?

Goodbye.
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Postby Yoite » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:42 am

Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Yoite wrote:
We can add more, hmmm

Characters - 15 x5
Creativity/Originality - 10 x5
Setting - 10 x5
Plot - 15 x5
Grammar/Presentation - 10 x5

There, switched the scores from Creativity and plot, multiplied across by 5, we now have a nice round three hundred . . . .three hundred?


Sounds good to the Nat.


Then let thy will be done, SO SAYS NAT, SO SAY WE ALL!
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Postby Nationstatelandsville » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:43 am

Yoite wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Sounds good to the Nat.


Then let thy will be done, SO SAYS NAT, SO SAY WE ALL!


Though, for simplicities sake, could we not just lower the 300 to 30?
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From a work to a work I was led to a work."
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:44 am

Yoite wrote:
Conserative Morality wrote:Characters - 15
Creativity - 15
Setting - 10
Plot - 10

How's that?


We can add more, hmmm

Characters - 15 x5
Creativity/Originality - 10 x5
Setting - 10 x5
Plot - 15 x5
Grammar/Presentation - 10 x5

There, switched the scores from Creativity and plot, multiplied across by 5, we now have a nice round three hundred . . . .three hundred?


How about:

Characters - 10
Plot - 10
Setting - 10
Creativity - 10
Grammar - 5
Style - 5

Or

Characters - 25
Plot - 25
Setting - 15
Creativity - 15
Style - 15
Grammar - 5

Or

Characters - 30
Plot - 25
Setting - 20
Creativity - 15
Style/Grammar - 10
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Postby Nationstatelandsville » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:45 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Yoite wrote:
We can add more, hmmm

Characters - 15 x5
Creativity/Originality - 10 x5
Setting - 10 x5
Plot - 15 x5
Grammar/Presentation - 10 x5

There, switched the scores from Creativity and plot, multiplied across by 5, we now have a nice round three hundred . . . .three hundred?


How about:

Characters - 10
Plot - 10
Setting - 10
Creativity - 10
Grammar - 5
Style - 5

Or

Characters - 25
Plot - 25
Setting - 15
Creativity - 15
Style - 15
Grammar - 5

Or

Characters - 30
Plot - 25
Setting - 20
Creativity - 15
Style/Grammar - 10


The second one could work.
"Then I was fertilized and grew wise;
From a word to a word I was led to a word,
From a work to a work I was led to a work."
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Postby Yoite » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:47 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Yoite wrote:
We can add more, hmmm

Characters - 15 x5
Creativity/Originality - 10 x5
Setting - 10 x5
Plot - 15 x5
Grammar/Presentation - 10 x5

There, switched the scores from Creativity and plot, multiplied across by 5, we now have a nice round three hundred . . . .three hundred?


How about:
Characters - 25
Plot - 25
Setting - 15
Creativity - 15
Style - 15 10
Grammar -5 10


That one's good. I just thought it would increase the accuracy to expand the point scale.
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Postby Conserative Morality » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:49 am

Yoite wrote:That one's good. I just thought it would increase the accuracy to expand the point scale.

I don't like making style and grammar worth the same amount if I can avoid it. =/
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