Seasonal Writing Contest!

It depends on your perception of "biased". To be biased means you are *favoring one person or side over another;". I meant this definition when I said subjecting yourself to bias was what it meant to be judged.

Hind sight, probably not the best term to use despite only using it as a little joke. When I say the judges are "unbiased" I mean it in the colloquial sense "tendency [that] interferes with the ability to be impartial, unprejudiced, or objective.. In other words, bias is generally seen as a 'one-sided' perspective". This isn't the original definition of bias, but it is what "bias" is perceived as by most people - something that interferes with impartial judging or decision making.

In this sense, the judges are not at all bias.




Ah, I see. Well I feel I did Classy. I let in a wide array of different types of writing and in particular writings that are not considered you average contest entry variety. That said, if the writing did not have merit beyond trying to incite people's ire, or mocked the spirit of the contest, I didn't allow it. If the author of that piece was boarder line on their entry, I PM'd them. If anyone PM'd me or posted asking why their entry wasn't allowed, I listened and explained why not and even allowed their entry if warranted.

Nobody who blatantly broke the rules (unfortunately some people either just missed the deadline or forgot to submit a link to their entry) ever complained to me or asked for an explanation or exception.

Not one.

I hope that answers your question and the questions of anyone else thinking the same thing.

Mint condition? Pose-able? CHANGEABLE OUTFITS? SABER LILY?
How did you all resist. Good lord.

However, given that the rules for the contest were only that the work must be original, < 1000 words, relate to FAKKU, and be Christmas/New Years themed...I'm not sure if a winner can be selected objectively. No criterion is posted that the judges can clearly refer to to say "This work is better than this one."

How would you compare a good comedy over a good drama? A poem over a short story? It is a VERY hard thing to do objectively. Slightly less so if a list of criteria was stated in the rules explaining what the judges were looking for, so the writers could submit entries with the criteria in mind and be judged on how well they met the criteria, but this wasn't done.

In the end, who really cares. To get angry at whatever supposed lack of objectivity there is in the judging (EDIT: I'm not, though I sound like it) is stupid. If you were truly upset at that, you shouldn't have submitted an entry in the first place, or remove your entry from the contest.

I got to read some insightful stories, and my favorite entry was RBZ's. I can't rhyme for shit, let alone with proper cadence.

So apparently the word "bias" has 2 meanings who knew?

And I linked my entry and yet I wasn't put on a poll. I had Christmas in mine and I had Jacob (fakku) you really are unbiased. It's kinda sad how you try to dignify your actions even though I followed the guidelines.