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What, you thought just because it was Corgi's contest and he said there would be no SHAMING that there wouldn't be?

Because if you did, then you haven't been paying attention!

And holy shit there were a lot of you this time, some of you got twice SHAMED and one of you even managed to get yourself BANNED and SHAMED like a fucktard.

Let's get on with it.

PIT OF SHAME

3iguy

AllenKudzu

AmazingSeastar

Author4

awesomeness12

AzBaz

Bannerlord

betaband

Bilbo

bjhovey

Blazewhisker

BlueThread

Cat2002116

Claw2k11

curtain64

DerPrussen

DiniTheWizard

Doodled

DungeonLord

Everwriter

Fluxion

frank2

ISentinelPenguinI

JeffreyJabs

jep49

Journeyman

jster02

Kwism1127

Lallafa

Lancelot

lunamoonia1

NekoCat

Neverland

OriginalClamurai

p1_tjc

Providence

QingBo

RainGem

Raki

Rathalon1213

RedComm

resistor

Romulus

Serpent

Seto

ShinobiKun

ShowMeTheCode

SixtySnakes

SkullyZombies

Slasher

SpartacustheGreat (coins)

stargazer

Thotfodder

ugilick

unturned

WouldntItBeNice

XNeoBurritoX
 
 

TWICE SHAMED

BenCrucifix

Chanbot (Ford)

Ficsean_Chef

Flamenod

insanebutvain

lordkarstark

MasonJarGuzzi

MinnieKing

Mr.Mustachio

Plelb

RoyalGhost_007

Samyers0616

Yellowbelly

BANNED AND SHAMED

CallMeFriend (Boringfirelion)

Comply

Emo_Lord_Holocaust

LADYHEAT24

Malkalack

MrAce

Negative (multiple times)

temporaryaccount

Tot

And that's it for this contest's SHAMING, next time don't be so lazy just because you think there's no obvious danger. (And you're all still terrible)

We had not one, not two, but over three months, to get something out for the contest, and you faggots  couldn't manage to finish something in all that time?  Not even a last minute desperate piece of shit to at least give Corgi something more to read?  I sincerely hope your mothers don't know you are on here, because if they knew how spectacularly you failed, they would die of SHAME.  

Thanks for making me look good by comparison, I guess.  

You deserve nothing else but SHAME.

This makes me feel a lot better about my choice to not enter despite the illusion of no consequences.

I was actually trying to enter a couple days before the deadline to enter, but my internet was out and I can’t post messages from my phone on here for some reason.

On mobile, click the settings button (on Chrome, it's the 3 dots on the top right), and check the desktop site button.

Yes, I necro'd a site to say that. Sorry.

Well I'm certainly glad my "busy" schedule and "homework" didn't keep me from finishing something. Seriously though, I skipped a few happy hours and cut out video games until I was done. When you sign up for something, finish it... or you will be SHAMED.

Nuh uh, this got four entries instead of three.  See, improvements are slowly being made with these three month contests.

I really don’t though. I usually announce a SHAME penalty as a potential danger right away or I leave it deliberately ambiguous so I can add it later.

This however was Corgi’s contest who specifically said there would be no SHAMING.

Of course as an admin I decided to override this silly rule since I decided that there needed to be proper penalty for the slackers.

Really was a spur of the moment thing though. Didn’t even plan it. So the surprise still stands.

I love the fact that I'm still shamed despite the fact that I haven't even posted on the forums since 2017.

Well, then I guess I better get on writing in the next contest before the SHAME becomes too much to bear.

Then I'm certainly glad to have made it in time. And thanks to whoever awarded me 50 points for it. (It's half the first prize, it gives me the illusion that I'm half a winner already.) But I have a question. I understand that the shame pit is for those that couldn't deliver on their promise, a stain on their honor (so to say). Yet it seems that you can also get banned if you fail, I guess 3 times? How long is that ban?

For always and eternity.

Then that means you're screwed, if you have a large project that's not yet published? Isn't that too harsh? We do this for fun, there's nothing harmful about trying and failing. (Even if it's over and over again).

By the way, sorry for misspelling your user name (in my description).

I agree that a short 1/8 story that scrapes past the minimum requirements, isn't that hard to churn out in one day. But isn't that counter productive? People will just put in the bare minimum effort, with a subpar story as a result. The judges will need to read it and it will come between the "new story games", while the author didn't even care. Doesn't that encourage adding gutter to the site? Because as I see it, the minimum standards were implemented just to prevent this in the first place, while keeping the entry bar for noobs (like me) as low as possible. Besides, according to the list there's already 9 people that were banned. (Or all they all the same person in reality?)

Oh and congratulations, if you did cram out a featured story in a measly six hours. But this won't apply to everybody.

I joined an official contest once a year ago.  The night before, I wrote and published a now unpublished story in two hours.  Sure, it sucked, but it kept me out of SHAME, and it was nobody's fault but my own that I had even been in that position.  Had there been no SHAME pit, I might not have even tried.  I got some hilarious comments out of it, and I learned a lesson.

If you join a contest and do not make any form of entry, I'd even call it disrespectful to the other contestants and the one running the contest.  Almost any entry is better than none at all.  If there aren't consequences for making someone think there will be an entry when there won't be, then there would not be something that is actually a big motivator for many.

Well, in my case it was more like life came in the way of me actually writing that story oh so long ago, but yeah I agree with Cricket here. The SHAME pit is a good motivator for people to actually finish the story they started writing.

Some valid points are being raised and I completely agree with them. A short "Oh, Nooo!" is a good laugh afterwards and shame will motivate people. People learn best from their own mistakes, so that's why they should be allowed to make them. But I think shame alone is enough.

Perhaps I should be more clear why I'm so annoying about this. It's because I'm afraid this will happen to me. (Or somebody similar to me.) Because I'm wildly ambitious, everything I start for fun suffers from severe scope expansion and three guesses... It never sees the light of day. That's partly the reason I joined the competition so I could focus on a short funny story and get something finished. I think pretty any idea I get, will quickly expand beyond my ability to handle. So I can already see me failing with 3 stories were a lot of effort went into. (I realize a long story doesn't equal a good story and rather a high quality paragraph is better than a huge wall of text.)

But hey, there's this cool idea, why not add it? Ouch I didn't make it, well I'll make an even more awesome story next time!

Yeah only join a contest if you think you'll have the time and can muster up the grit to get it done.  But yes, embrace the fear of the SHAME pit.  For it is a horrible, horrible place.  Let it motivate you to write and succeed....or at least submit.

I was planning to add a LOT more content to my story...but then life got in the way. So I somehow managed to get 2 hours on a Sunday evening to finish 3/4th of my entire story. Result was that I made a half-assed terrible conclusion to the story and just 2 major branches in my story. So I could basically submit only a quarter of what I originally planned in order to meet the deadline. Because of rushing it and typing like a hooligan in those 2 hours, that quarter I managed to finish was choke full of everything wrong. 

So yes, before you enter a contest, just think in advance if you’ll have the time to do it justice; don’t make the same mistake I did with not at all planning in advance.

I am very disappointed in all who did not submit for the contest. Very, very disappointed. 

Whoa wtf had no idea CYS was gonna go full Game of Thrones with that one.

If I finish my original story I planned to enter can I have unshame plox?