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Loving the new rules, back to being a caption game, keeps it simple. Also thumbs up for PMing the entries; too many entries "inspired" by the last one.
F1 Caption Game - Archive ThreadFormula 1
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Question: Can you submit an edited picture as the winner of the last round?
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I like it. 👍
It's returning the "caption" competition to being just that, a contest to supply a witty or amusing caption to a given, undoctored picture, not a show of superior photo-editing skills.
In the interests of everyone's amusement, I'd say that if you want to post your amusing edits of the picture here that's no problem, however, they shouldn't be eligible for winning the "caption" contest, that should be open to textual entries only.
That's myanyway.
Sounds like a plan.
SUPER NUMBBER - I see no problems with that, no. Although I do check any picture submitted for the next round by the previous rounds winner, but as long as it's not utterly stupid, I see no issues.
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New season, new rules, no problem.
The new points system sounds good, and I can understand how the PM submission will ease the management of this thread.
However, I have a little something (cant find the appropriate wording) about the unedited/restricted aspect of the picture. Not really because of personal results from last season (using additional pictures) but because we could probably miss some really good inputs, like Omniss hilarious strips to name one.
Anyway and despite lack of winter testing, consider me in at the very first round of the season.
The new points system sounds good, and I can understand how the PM submission will ease the management of this thread.
However, I have a little something (cant find the appropriate wording) about the unedited/restricted aspect of the picture. Not really because of personal results from last season (using additional pictures) but because we could probably miss some really good inputs, like Omniss hilarious strips to name one.
Anyway and despite lack of winter testing, consider me in at the very first round of the season.
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You can still post the edited pictures, so we can all still laugh at them, but they won't be a part of the actual competition, this is so we just get humour, rather than clever photoshop skills 
I've updated the rules in the OP, I think they are clearer with deadlines.
I've updated the rules in the OP, I think they are clearer with deadlines.
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Indeed, it's pretty clear.
You could post 20 provisional entries to the competition in this thread, however, if you don't decide which is your final entry and PM that to Nigel before the deadline, your caption won't be included in the voting and you won't have the opportunity to score points for that week.
Don't send a PM? Your entries are still provisional, and thus not eligible for the final vote. Simple as that.
This saves him the time of trolling through multiple entries by the same user over multiple pages to figure out which one to use, which happened fairly frequently towards the end of last year and added extra work & confusion to an already complex task.
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I don't think it's really plagiarism when people think the same way. I think the only instance when it came close last year was the European GP round where I re-jigged the Ezekiel 25:17 speech from PULP FICTION just after Smallhorses had without realising it.
Besides, if people all make jokes about the same thing, it only hurts their chances because everyone will see it happening.
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At least when you PM the entries there's no doubt. You can't look at two similar captions without thinking one might've been partly copied from the other. Now if they end up being similar, you can give the prize to the best execution, maybe even both, knowing they're original.
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I fear exclusive PM could harm the dynamic of this thread.
By the way, plagiarism should not be confused with brainstorming. I really dont mind if a posted caption leads to better one, even if the latest partially recycles a previous input. Its all part of the creative process in my opinion. Hopefully people will continue to public post their final caption.
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Yes, but there were times last season when captions were literally copied.
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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To Narnia?
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Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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So, when does the 2010 season begin?
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