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Originally Posted by Jayne Osborn
(Chris, just wondering... don't the winning entries appear on the thread whoever wrote them? Occasionally The Oldie has none of us on the page but the thread still shows all the prize-winners' poems.)
Jayne
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Maybe I’m being overly cautious.
I have an online
NS subscription, so I could easily copy and paste all the winners every week. But in addition to being concerned about winning entries appearing here before they appeared in the magazine, Vicky was unhappy about my weekly post looking so much like the
NS comp page. In her view, that contributed to the illusion that we were operating some kind of unauthorized copycat comp. So I’m trying out ways of conveying the basic comp information each week without replicating the magazine’s format. That’s why I haven’t been posting anybody’s winning entries in recent weeks, but rather asking ’Sphere members to post their own if they choose.
I’m also happy to have people share non-winning entries, and I’m glad that’s OK with you as well. (I think you did once upon a time ask Brian to refrain from such after-the-fact posts, on the grounds that there was ample opportunity here to share entries ahead of time. Now that there ain’t no such opportunity no more, I think you’re right to go with different ground rules.)