View Poll Results: Which story do you like the most?
Veloci la France 2 2.70%
Thank Goodness for Time Travel 6 8.11%
By the Rivers of Babylon 10 13.51%
The Chronicles of Imhotep 54 72.97%
Empire of the Rising Sun 2 2.70%
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Old November 20, 2001, 22:53   #1
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First Story Contest Poll Nov. 12-18
Here are the top 5 stories for this week. Please vote for the one you think is the best.
By the way, we still need a third judge. Anyone interested?

The stories (not in any particular order)
1. "Veloci la France" by Velocyrix
2. "Thank Goodness for Time Travel" by deater
3. "By the Rivers of Babylon" by dr. charm
4. "The Chronicles of Imhotep" by HawaiiFive-O
5. Empire of the Rising Sun by Dom Pedro II

I'll check the number of votes after five days and then post the winner.
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Old November 21, 2001, 05:40   #2
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First of all, I'm flattered that my story is on this list, and I also appreciate all the kind words I've received for it.

My thoughts on the third judge is, why not have the weekly winner be the third judge? I'd assume that if you win, you wouldn't be eligible for a month or so (if ever again), so why not let last week's winner help pick this week's winner?

Just an idea. Of course that doesn't help us in the first week of the contest...

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There's no restriction on the number of times you can win the contest so write as many stories as you can. Your idea about having the winner judge for a week sounds okay but what if the person doesn't want to judge? Then I have to go looking around for someone else. I think I'd rather have a full-time judge. How about you?
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Quinalla has volunteered to be the third judge for the contest. Thanks for helping out Quinalla!
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Excellent work, FiveO. I think you would be heartened by the poll results thus far. I think each of the stories that made the final list are deserving of special praise. Please keep sending them in, they truly are providing a positive experience to this community.
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The link to the 5th story goes to the 4th story - chronicles of imhotep
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Here is the correct link for the 5th
"Empire of the Rising Sun" by Dom Pedro II

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The 5th link in the first post has been fixed. Sorry for the error.
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i really liked the chronicles of imhotep. i hope my story -a bad day-
can win next week...
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The Chronicles of Imhotep, for sure!
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Everyone:

Thumbs up to HawaiiFive-O and his "Chronicles of Imhotep."

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whens next, wait, this weeks poll going to start. i will vote for fabulae romanae...
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this week's poll
I'm just waiting to hear from the other judges. Hopefully that'll be today or tomorrow.
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some notes:

1) given the amount of stuff posted, i'd suggest that we have 10 candidates for the next vote
2) since you used the feature to close the poll after X days, it would be better to wait for the poll to close automatically before announcing the winners
3) hold the new vote until i fix the issue with votes counting twice(sometimes in the next 18 hours)
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Quote:
Originally posted by MarkG
some notes:

1) given the amount of stuff posted, i'd suggest that we have 10 candidates for the next vote
2) since you used the feature to close the poll after X days, it would be better to wait for the poll to close automatically before announcing the winners
3) hold the new vote until i fix the issue with votes counting twice(sometimes in the next 18 hours)
1) OKay, that's no problem.
2) I thought five days had passed by and there was a bug in the poll. I'll wait until it's definitely closed this time. Luckily, the winner won by a large margin so there's no room for debate on the winner.
3) I have the ten stories ready to post so please post a message when the poll is fixed.

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So much taking the time to help narrow the selection down so it would be easier to conduct a poll of finalists. Might as well just have a freeform poll rating all of the stories.
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Hmmm . . . . after thinking it through I believe Steve has a good point. What's the purpose of judges if everything gets in?
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Hmmm . . . . after thinking it through I believe Steve has a good point. What's the purpose of judges if everything gets in?
do you mean that this week we have exactly 10 new stories?
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do you mean that this week we have exactly 10 new stories?
No, thirteen or fourteen. I should have said 'almost' everything gets in.
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Of the 13-14 stories that I read and scored, there were 5-6 that were really good (scoring a 7 or better). I believe each week we will find that there will be 5-6 stories that are truly exceptional and worthy for everyone to read and polled. Anymore than that, you will 1) have more of a popularity contest and 2) less pollers because of the volume, I think. As with any contest or awards, you always have a list of nominees or finalists for everyone to vote on. That was why I reacted against going to 10 because, imho, there were not 10 exceptional stories this week or last week. Perhaps if the stories really pick up (which I doubt since the newness of Civ3 is wearing off), then maybe we can have 10 exceptional stories out of a pool of 25-30. Now before anyone reacts my perceived elitism, that's the point of being a judge. I was chosen because Anatolia admired my writing skills and plus my background afforded me many chances to write articles and to critique/edit other articles and papers as well. I think you would agree that the 5 finalists last week were the best of the best. Just my .01
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I agree Steve, if there were actually 10 really good stories, they we should definately put those up to vote, but if there are only 5 or 6, then only those should go up. Also, the more stories in the poll the less chance they will all be read before someone votes and that isn't fair. Anyway, I am sure Anatolia will do whatever he thinks is best.

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It has been years since I have visited apolyton and had forgotten about this. I am very happy to see that the Civ3 Stories/Contest continued on.

It's funny, despite my intense involvement in the early days of pre-release Civ3, I had not even heard about Civ4 until just now. So much time has passed....
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