That would work!

Hahahaha. This has yet to work on here. I mean, it's nice in theory, but you know people are sharing with friends off-site, also some people are wearing their HA entries as their HAs so like...how do you expect this to actually stay anonymous? We have yet to manage to make any of the anonymous entries entirely anonymous in previous contests.

Nothing is truly anonymous, but we're looking to reduce the obvious instances when we can. We had a few entries with people including their username or pet name directly in their description ("this is my pet Soandso" vs. "this is my kumos"), so we're just trying to reduce what we can of it. You should still be able to have your entries largely as they were, you may just need to tweak how some sentences are worded so it isn't super obvious :)

It's definitely something we dread every time we have a contest, and there isn't a ton we can do besides these types of (though minor) preventive measures. It's been really cool seeing the winners in the past though, often very broad and truly some amazing talent--not just someone popular. Then again, those with the huge followings are often very talented, so it's not even certain that they'd win just because of that anyway. FWIW, when staff have voted on contests it's so shielded from us that we have to have unravel the results at the end so we can even find out who won, haha!

Honestly, that's why I've personally been into trying to make more broad categories, so as not to just appeal to the same people and really give everyone a chance to utilize their niche and shine. I like being able to include things that everyone can do like create a HA, as well as the more complex tasks that involve making some sort of craft IRL.

Definitely! I expected that one to go over a bit better because it seemed fairly obvious that the more content you provided, the more you'd stand out. People also got insanely creative and it was so huge! Every contest we do we get more and more entries, so splitting it up like this and only allowing one entry per person should definitely help some of those problems.

I'm guessing scode is fine, ?

Yes! That's what I would probably do if I was going to enter. :)

yes, scode works!

sorry guys i've been a little distracted because of the flooding in louisiana!

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Do a collage! If you want to make sure people see more than one picture, best to have them all right there.

Any sort of adventure is fine! That's why we left it pretty broad so we'd have a lot of different interpretations of it. Outdoorsy is kind of the default since it's a "camp", but really you could be a space pirate or like on an adventure to find the best pie (which I've done and failed).