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Sweet! We also like bribes!

And well I must say I was suprised that you weren't atop the leader board :P

waZelda

Well, you did give my free-poem 7.5/12, so it shouldn't be all that surprising.

I think that ideally we should have had more judges, because poems effect people in different ways (I mean foolz gave Aida 10.5 while you gave it 7.5), so to get the right idea of how well it is, you should have an average score from a greater number of people. But well, it is a small union after all.

Fair enough, I guess my own stupidity expected you to be in first. Well I think that is the biggest difference and in a score of 12, having a difference of 3 is a 25% deviation, so that's not that bad. Correct me if I'm wrong though. I think we'd only have a problem if one of us gave it a 5, and the other a 12, then there are definite problems there. As for more judges, it may be too late for this, and well there are only a few people in this competition, it would be a little ridculious to have more than one more judge. I don't know though. What I do like is that both scores matter equally so they do average out ... And well, I hope the scores aren't that controversial :P

oookay it's getting weird for me now I'll just uuuuh.....:| I dunno what to do now:?th3d3c3ption

Nod, smile and say that the cake is delicious.

i don't know if we're allowed to criticise the results :lol: but i'd like to sharer my thoughts on themlerfish

Go for it.

 i actually thought this piece was very good and i would agree with foolz, i thought this piece was one of the poems in week one with the most substance. I thought it dealt with a very intresting feeling/subject and showed it very well, probably one of my fav poems from Gamergadge =] (not having a go, im just saying i liked it =])lerfish

The reason that Foolz3h and myself are judging this together is because we have vastly different tastes in poetry. We both appreciate style, and the flow that a piece has -- that's mostly an objective thing (and the scores mostly seem to reflect that), whereas the substance of a piece is something that we are divided on. What poetry does for us is vastly different.

I looked at my scores at the write you refer to, and it is not a bad write, it just wasn't amazing for me. Foolz3h loved it, and that's fair for him. I know Gamergadge is a great writer who has posted a lot of good stuff (which I really enjoy reading), but this piece didn't blow me away by any stretch.

We know that the ratings are subjective, and we did talk about where we were divided in our markings, but ultimately we decided that we held fair views about the pieces. I wouldn't say that anyone in this contest is a bad writer (in fact I'd argue the exact opposite with confidence), but pieces vary and thus reactions will vary accordingly. The beauitful thing about literature is that individuals can draw very different things out of it. We do our best to grade things fairly, and thus are bound to have differences in our ratings.

Hope that validates the markings for you :)

"fear of foreigners"?

...I kind of think that the metaphor was lost somewhere along the way. :P 

Congrats to lerfish for his first-place finish in the first week!

(By the way, since you misspelled my  name every single time, I thought I'd note that it's GabuEx... :P)

GabuEx

Oh damn. I'm sorry :(

Hey, I just heard this hilarious joke: What's the difference between Tiger Woods and Santa?

Santa stops after 3 "ho's" :lol:

red0584

Lol that's bad bro.

Yes, Aidan is fake :lol: This is all just a big joke :PCourtney817

So you're doing the photoshop for me? Sweet.

Sweet! We also like bribes!

And well I must say I was suprised that you weren't atop the leader board :P