May Contest 1 - No More Stereotypes!
Apr. 29th, 2006 04:31 amAs this is a fairly daunting contest, I'm getting it up early; any points earned will be added into May / the new term!
Contest Type: Graphics and/or Text
Specifics: Due to the anti-stereotyping sentiments our members often love to display, we want to revamp our 'Cheat Sheets'! The current ones, while lovely, are outdated and contain a lot of stereotyping on all of the Houses. Your job is to come up with a new set of 'cheats' for sorters to use when trying to peg someone into a House here at HiH! Include common traits, most often affiliated zodiac signs, even tiny things such as the way an applicant words their answers. Whatever you feel makes someone belong in that House -- put it down!
Our current sheets can be seen here for reference: G - H - R - S
Also, for a good idea on what sorts of things members find stereotypical (in a bad way), you can read
tsukinofaerii's essay on Slytherin here!
Size Regulations? Please make any graphics large enough to have readable text, but small enough to load without much hesitation - max of 500x500; any text-only entries should be short enough so that the reader isn't bored and doesn't bother to read!
Deadline: Friday, May 5th, 2006 by ten p.m. US Central time
Points/Knuts: 50/40/30/10 points and 20/15/10/5 knuts for 1st/2nd/3rd/participation
Submit entries in a comment to this post; all comments are screened! Do not forget to sign with your House!
All general rules may be found here.

Contest Type: Graphics and/or Text
Specifics: Due to the anti-stereotyping sentiments our members often love to display, we want to revamp our 'Cheat Sheets'! The current ones, while lovely, are outdated and contain a lot of stereotyping on all of the Houses. Your job is to come up with a new set of 'cheats' for sorters to use when trying to peg someone into a House here at HiH! Include common traits, most often affiliated zodiac signs, even tiny things such as the way an applicant words their answers. Whatever you feel makes someone belong in that House -- put it down!
Our current sheets can be seen here for reference: G - H - R - S
Also, for a good idea on what sorts of things members find stereotypical (in a bad way), you can read
Size Regulations? Please make any graphics large enough to have readable text, but small enough to load without much hesitation - max of 500x500; any text-only entries should be short enough so that the reader isn't bored and doesn't bother to read!
Deadline: Friday, May 5th, 2006 by ten p.m. US Central time
Points/Knuts: 50/40/30/10 points and 20/15/10/5 knuts for 1st/2nd/3rd/participation
Submit entries in a comment to this post; all comments are screened! Do not forget to sign with your House!
All general rules may be found here.
