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OFFICIAL Guidelines for submitting Trivia, Photos, Quizzes, Articles and Quotes

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Matt Wallace |

Member since Jul 2007

Hi! if you have submitted something and never seen it, it is because it offended too many of the criteria below. Stuff that it is not acceptable, basically never gets seen.

TRIVIA
1. Trivia should be answerable by watchign the show. We realize there are hundreds of old trivia questions that do not fit this. they should stay, but we do not need any new ones.
2. No opinion questions. At all.
3. Check spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitals. We will not change them for you (well maybe an error or two!). If you don't bother, then you wasted your time.

QUOTES
1. No repeats.
2. Make sure the quote appears exactly as said!
3. Spelling, grammar, caps, punctuation.
4. They must be at least a little bit significant, not just random, uninteresting things someone said.

ARTICLES

1. Articles cannot be altered after published. If they are riddled with errors, then they will not be approved and therefore, never seen. If there are not many errors, or none, it will probably be approved, but you run the risk of judgement for poor writing which has happened in the past. Just type it on Word first and do spellcheck (or proofread yourself) to avoid this.
2. Should not be too short.

PHOTOS
1. We want MOSTLY just pictures from the show/screenshots, not billions and billions of pictures of Wentworth Miller...haha. Although, we do accept a fair amount of non-screenshot pictures.
2. No repeats.
3. No pictures of you and your friends. For some reason, We get them every day.

QUIZZES
1. No trivia in the quizzes. That is why we have tens of thousands of trivia and a ranking system. Quizzes are for things like, "Which character are You" type things.
2. spelling, grammar, blah blah

Thanks,
Matt
Officer, PB Application
Matt Wallace |

Member since Jul 2007

AMENDMENT

Triva Questions should be answerable by WATCHING THE SHOW. I am well aware that there are hundreds which do not fit the criteria. We will leave them be, but not accept new ones.

Most of the other similar applications use this policy and I think it is an important one, beneficial to all. We do not all have the mags, dvd's etc.
Matt Wallace |

Member since Jul 2007

AMENDMENT TO QUIZZES GUIDELINES


Trivia-type quizzes are allowed, due to the new scoring feature, but only those that fit a very SPECIFIC THEME (ie. "How well do you know T-Bag"). Do not duplicate quiz ideas.
Brandon |

Member since Sep 2007

So I am confused about posting discussion topics. You cancelled one of my topics because I said that if I was wrong about something, I knew that Chris Boston Arts Academy would be sure to let me know. You said this was attacking another user. However, he has free reign to call people things such as "cum stain." Seems like a double standard to me.

I am not trying to argue with anyone here. It is pretty much a fact - if I post something that is not true, Chris will be sure to say it's not true. Sometimes using profanity. So what is the standard for posting discussion items?
Matt Wallace |

Member since Jul 2007

I didnt cancel your topic because you were wrong! Take another look there.

And as for the "cum stain"comment, I have no idea what you're talkign about, or what this double standard business is.
Matt Wallace |

Member since Jul 2007

Nevermind. Found it. Naturally of course, I would work my way down the topics.

Thinking I have some sort of double standard just because I hadn't gotten to that topic yet is absurd. You shoul dhave been able to figure that one out by the timing. I don't live online.

Standards for Discussion boards? Behave somewhat... And no more "Is Michael Gay" topics.
Donna |

Member since Dec 2007

Hey Matt,
Im just wondering if you can help me out here, i have creatd over 100 questions frot hetrivia quiz, but my total says only 64, can you let me know how that works or what im doing wrong when im writting them so that they arent going through..like, do you guys check all the questions and decide which ones go in? how does the process work, because my questions seem to have just disappeared??? x
Matt Wallace |

Member since Jul 2007

They all get to go in unless they:

have already been submitted (it is getting real hard to make new questions, as thousands upon thousands have already gone through)
MOST of them fall under this category. I do have a checker to make sure so i do not delete them not really knowing.

Too many errors. I can fix a few, but if I have to rewrite the thing, I do not bother because I shouldnt have to.

Opinion questions- all are refused.

Donna, I cannot remember for sure, but I think a fair amount of yours were repeats. I kow its hard to remember them all. Unfortunately, you guys do not have a checker, but I do.
Donna |

Member since Dec 2007

sweet as Matt - thanks for letting me know.....i thought i must have been doing something wrong!!!!
Matt Wallace |

Member since Jul 2007

AMENDMENT:

You are now allowed to make trivia-related quizzes, because of the scoring quiz option.

However, like normal trivia, you need to use proper grammar and spelling. I will not make them right for you. Do that on your own, and your trivia quiz will surely be kept (as long as the answers are right...even more importantly!).
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