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Textkit Competitions

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The Ides of March competition seems like a great idea. As it says, it will encourage donations and promote interest in textkit.

But why wait until March? Surely it would be better to have more regular smaller competitions? How about essay/article competitions? These would stimulate interest even more, and rapidly increase textkit's content. One of the problems seems to be getting to people to visit the site regularly. I think this would help a lot. Competitions could be on any topic; a simple essay title; a translation.. etc. The best titles would be "open" titles because then everyone's entry could be put on the website (rather than having 20 discussions of why they like Greek or whatever...).

Just a thought.

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A poetry contest would rule.

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I love the idea of contests - especially creative ones. The Ides contest runs so long because it takes a lot of time to coordinate book donations.

I'll start thinking about other contests...



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Post by Episcopus »

Contests should be scarce since they will accumulate much anticipation; more frequent ones may be taken for granted. Creative classics-related contests, perhaps judged by experts, would offer so much more than prizes.

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Post by Thucydides »

Contests should be scarce since they will accumulate much anticipation; more frequent ones may be taken for granted.
True. How about once every quarter year? That should give enough time for decent entries, but make them regular enough for sustained interest.

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Can anyone offer help with judging entries?

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We should ask one or more of the elite.

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Perhaps we need to a survey of all the qualifications/experiences of the textkit users.

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