Hello everyone on RU. Many of you know me here; I'm the guy that posts story after story after story. I like stories. And I've also recently had the honor of being promoted to moderator. Like any newly promoted executive, I had an immediate desire to make changes via pet projects, so here we go.
Starting at the beginning of July, I'm going to run the RavishU story contest. Hopefully it will become a cherished monthly event. In July, I'll post a few polls in which any registered RU member can vote for the best story of the past month in a few different categories. The winners would then have links to their stories posted in a special sub-thread that's updated each month. So any story posted in June would be automatically entered into the contest. Note: I am restricting this to stories started in June. There are a lot of long, multi-part stories on our board that are added to now and then. If we tried to include them all, we'd have many dozens. As it is, June has produced 31 potential entries as of this morning, and with a week left in the month.
Also, in keeping with the ravishment theme of the site, and considering limitations of the moderator, we'll only use stories posted in the following sub-categories: Gang Rape, One on One, Mixed Groupings, Supernatural Rape, Gay Male Rape, Lesbian Action!, Women Raping Men, EXTREME stories, BDSM Stories.
What I'd love to hear now are suggestions and feedback about the details. For instance, I was thinking of the following categories:
- Best Overall: Perhaps this one could have two winners. Sometimes it is hard to narrow down just one best. I think I can set polls to allow two votes each.
- Literary Excellence: Plot, character development, emotional context, etc are key here. Which stories could be taught in Creative Kink 101 at the local college?
- Super-Fap: For the stories that get hot and intense quickly. The winner will be that one story that made you hurry to get your underwear off.
- Best Mind-Fuck: Which story really poured it on with dark mental states, heavy and harsh events, and just plain made you go 'Holy fuck!'.
- Cleverest: For stories with tricks, turns, or that just make us go 'huh!'. Maybe also for Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or other genres that add some of the fantastic to the tale.
Now these are categories I came up with off the top of my head. But they're not set in stone. That's why I'm hoping for feedback. Post a reply letting me know if you'd like a different category, or have an issue with one of these. Obviously I can't guarantee to please everybody, especially if there are conflicting requests, but I would like to know what everyone thinks.
Another featured category I'm going to include is Best Story by a New Author. All of the stories in this category will be among the stories offered for the above categories, but this one will be limited to a 'new author'. I'm thinking that a new author should be defined as someone who has posted their first story on RU at some point in the past 3 or 4 months. Originally I was going to say the last 1 month, the same range as for the story contest. But that seems very limiting. We would have only a handful to pick from, and some fairly new authors here have been making great efforts to work their craft, but started a little over a month ago. So I'm thinking that although only stories posted within the month of June will be included, any author whose
first story was posted in the past 3 or 4 months would be eligible. Will it be 3 or be 4 months? I haven't decided. Opinions? So all of you would-be authors who want to write something someday maybe when it's perfect, now you have an incentive to start typing.
The most important thing is that this be fun for everyone. I don't want this becoming cutthroat. There is no prize money here, just a special link and a congrats by the RU team. So let me know your thoughts, and then get ready to vote for the stories you really like.
SoftGameHunter
