I've thought as hard as I could, and I've come to decisions. I hope they're good. I'll post them before I go to bed tonight.
We're going to play challenge-style. A challenge lets people join in later (or drop out) seamlessly, with no pinch hitters, and with the opportunity to promote the game throughout its run, and with no hurt feelings by bad matches. We'll nominate and vote for 3 challenge prompts (1-10 words per prompt, not counting any citations needed for quotation prompts).
Because it will be a challenge and therefore no one should feel short-changed, I think we should also reduce the required minimum words to 500; I think most people will write 1,000 or more, regardless, but perhaps some people who are nervous to commit to 1,000 will commit to 500.
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We're going to play challenge-style. A challenge lets people join in later (or drop out) seamlessly, with no pinch hitters, and with the opportunity to promote the game throughout its run, and with no hurt feelings by bad matches. We'll nominate and vote for 3 challenge prompts (1-10 words per prompt, not counting any citations needed for quotation prompts).
Because it will be a challenge and therefore no one should feel short-changed, I think we should also reduce the required minimum words to 500; I think most people will write 1,000 or more, regardless, but perhaps some people who are nervous to commit to 1,000 will commit to 500.