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Like Martin Reed writes on CommunitySpark, it’s important to make your community stand out from the competition. We recently announced over $300 in prizes for the winners of our forum posting contest, which puts a unique spin on forum contests.

Rather than counting posts, we’ve decided to use an algorithm to give each post a score, and take a total of each users’ scores over the contest as it runs for the 30 day period, from November 30th to December 30th. This is going to be perfect if you want to get some last minute Christmas shopping done!

If you watch the current standings of the contest, you’ll see the scores go up in almost real-time, they’ll be adjusted and recalculated every 10 minutes or so. Share this with your friends, too - we have no objection to people working together and posting back and forth in forum games, then sharing the prize if one of you wins.

Also, we’d like to announce that account merges are now made available. If you have any duplicate accounts that are not for specific characters, send me a PM and I can get your accounts merged for you (and even keep the one that has the earlier registration date ;] ).

There’s only one day left in the short story writing contest! Be sure to submit your story before the deadline!

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Taylor Mali has an amazing skit he does about proofreading. A large portion of our community roleplays online, and it’s veritably important, especially when roleplaying on the forums, to proofread your posts.

Taylor demonstrates why:

On a medium like forums, you have the time to proofread your posts. Not only will proofreading make sure you don’t come across like a newbie, but it’ll help you establish that you take your time and put effort into your posts.

Be sure to check out Taylor Mali’s Journal Blog and if you’re a podcast listener, subscribe to his Podcasts & Poems podcast.

Transcript of the skit after the cut.
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