The following is a sketchy draft of an idea... Getting too wordy in the rules. 20 voting items is possible, but any problems seen?I was tempted to be satirical with an image, but I then realised that I'd probably be too obvious with it. I wondered what
other people would come up with. And then I decided to make it a game.
Rules:
i) One image at time, the first is mine but once (if!) we get near to the end of the round I shall accept nominations.
ii) In the Answer Phase, up to 20 entries (may change based on ongoing popularity
and what I discover the limits of the voting system to be) can be submitted. This phase will last no more than seven days plus the time taken to remember that I need to close the phase (PMed nudges are welcome)
ii.a) Inititally it will be a Single Answer Phase, just one submission per person,
ii.b) At my discretion, I may change this to Multiple Answer Phase, with no such restriction, but please don't flood. Keep one entry per post and do not double-posting (unless you happen to be the last Single Answer and first to take advantage of Multiple Answer).
ii.c) Clearly state "Caption
N:
Your caption", or anything semantically similar, starting at 1 or incrementing upon the last answer, to quickly show how close to fully-subscribed we are.
ii.d) The aim is to be original, non-obvious and (above all)
funny. Do not be deliberately offensive, and stick within forum guidelines, but everyone should realise that opinions differ on what '"original", "obvious", "funny"
and "offensive" exactly mean.
ii.e) I reserve the right to arbitrate about unsuitability (PM me, if you think that's needed and I'm not doing it) and ask politely for someone to redact their own answer. If it has to get as far as a proper board Mod to intervene, we probably deserves what we get.
ii.f) I shall close things off (once the stated entries
or time has been filled) with a summary, and change us to Voting Phase. If redactions have occured, I shall
iii) Voting Phase is simply based upon thread voting, in whatever way that best works, to last
?one further week
?Yada yada yada... But after vote, top three (or more, with ties) get immortalised on front page, new image, new answers, new votes, repeat until abandoned. Or new thread per round?(Image came from
this page, if you're interested, of award-winning photos. But it there's an immediate Content Warning on the first image, and the one I've chosen is one of the rare 'family friendly' ones, in a general swipe-through of bleakness.)
No answers, please. Structural comments only!
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