Article Submission Rules and Guidelines - The FINE PRINT
How To:
The Concept:
Rules:
Remuneration:
Added 9 June 2004 at 6.25PM EDT (Zulu -4 hours):
To satisfy potential liabilities in response to XXXXXXXXX complaint to the Ohio Attorney General's Office:
Should any other potential 'legal' aspects surface as a result of XXXX complaint, or any other complaint, I will post them in this thread and I will amend this post - Post 1 in this thread - appropriately.
24 June 2004
Please remember - This is not a contest per se. I am not the person 'voting' - YOU are. I want original content and I am willing to pay for an article. But I cannot pay lots of bucks. I'm not a big company. I'm Marc - A One Man Band, so to speak... So - I ask for article content submissions, and then you - the Registered Users - 'Vote' as a part of the Elsmar Cove Forums 'editorial board' and, based upon the results of YOUR votes, I pay the contributor of the article judged as best US$150.
If you submit something and you don't get the majority of the 'votes', please consider the response (the vote count) a 'Rejection Notice for This Month' {I really hate this but it's a legal necessity to say because of XXXXXXXXX complaint to the Ohio Atty General's office that this is an illegal 'contest'}. Submissions are journalistic submissions subject to 'rejections' by the board {all Registered users = 'the board'}.
Article Submission Rules, Regulations, and The Fine Print
How To:
- Every month a new 'sub-forum' will be started specific to the month. Start a New Thread in the forum for the appropriate month.
- Title the Thread Appropriately. It is the Title of your article. This is important.
The Concept:
- Any Registered User can submit an article - an original work - for review by all other Registered Users. If this proves to be popular, barring any significant drop in advertising revenue, I will happily keep the feature going.
- I am looking for original content from authors or others who would like to share their business systems knowledge, thoughts, experiences and beliefs.
Rules:
- Simple - Write an article. A bio would be appropriate to demonstrate your 'credentials'. Not required, but...
- Expected (Hoped for?) - Images and Data - Please use the Attachment feature. If you feel you need images inline, I can do that here - Please PM me.
- Original Writings ONLY - Copy and Paste of any copyright material is NOT acceptable.
- I do not want to have to monitor for links which go DEAD a year or more (or less for that matter) from now, so no graphics or other files linked to external sites will be accepted.
- Data - You must support your article / position with data. Preferably graphics data as post 'attachment(s)'.
- Articles are limited to 30,000 characters if you put it in the body of the post. If your article exceeds this limit, please PM or e-mail me and I'll help. Or,
- You may submit a 'Word' or 'rtf' document as an attachment if you wish, rather than just submitting text and attachments in a post, but if you do so please give us a good description of your 'article', including your premise (theory, hypothesis, whatever), in your post.
- You may submit an HTML or XHTML document. If you do this, particularly if you have graphics, I suggest you put the file and graphics in a ZIP or TAR or GZIP file and attach it to the post.
- Acrobat (pdf) files are acceptable, but I request they not be LOCKed in any way.
- PowerPoint presentation data files are acceptable, however, .pps (slide show limited files) are not.
Remuneration:
- At the end of the month I will start a thread with a Poll. In this thread, all Registered Users will have the opportunity to vote expressing your opinion of which Article (Thread) they gained the most from.
- The Poll will be open for about a month. The Close Date of the poll is stated in the poll.
- The 'Winner' of the poll will be sent a check for US$ 150.00.
Added 9 June 2004 at 6.25PM EDT (Zulu -4 hours):
To satisfy potential liabilities in response to XXXXXXXXX complaint to the Ohio Attorney General's Office:
- Void where prohibited by law.
- People under 18 may submit articles but their parent must be involved in the process.
- Children over 18 years of age are encouraged to participate.
- There is no charge or other requirement to submit an article in the forum other than to be a Registered user.
- Registration in the forums is open to everyone.
- Registration in the forums is free.
- Registration in the forums is not an inducement to buy anything.
- Article submission is not an attempt to get anyone to buy anything. There is nothing to buy which is in any way related to submitting an article.
- There is no requirement to listen to, or to read, a 'sales pitch'. For anything. For any reason.
- Voters understand when they vote their name will be recorded by the software and is visible to everyone - the monthly polls are OPEN polls.
- I personally do not vote in the poll so that no one can claim bias on my part, nor do I, nor will I, attempt to bias the poll.
- While moderators may monitor the poll, they are absolved of all responsibility - I assume all liability for the accuracy and honesty of the voting.
- If you submit an article and your article is not voted to be the best of those submitted, you can and may complain publicly in a post in the forums. If you e-mail a complaint, it will be posted in a public thread for discussion and resolution. I don't hide things here. If there's a complaint, let's all discuss it.
Should any other potential 'legal' aspects surface as a result of XXXX complaint, or any other complaint, I will post them in this thread and I will amend this post - Post 1 in this thread - appropriately.
24 June 2004
Please remember - This is not a contest per se. I am not the person 'voting' - YOU are. I want original content and I am willing to pay for an article. But I cannot pay lots of bucks. I'm not a big company. I'm Marc - A One Man Band, so to speak... So - I ask for article content submissions, and then you - the Registered Users - 'Vote' as a part of the Elsmar Cove Forums 'editorial board' and, based upon the results of YOUR votes, I pay the contributor of the article judged as best US$150.
If you submit something and you don't get the majority of the 'votes', please consider the response (the vote count) a 'Rejection Notice for This Month' {I really hate this but it's a legal necessity to say because of XXXXXXXXX complaint to the Ohio Atty General's office that this is an illegal 'contest'}. Submissions are journalistic submissions subject to 'rejections' by the board {all Registered users = 'the board'}.
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