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[Kashi]

It's Rules and Guidelines topic says that we must follow this criteria:

Theme
Size Limit (550x200 pixels)
Deadline for entry submission
(and a link to this thread in the SOTW Entry Thread)

But I don't get what it means by: and a link to this thread in the SOTW Entry Thread. It's to link the deadline to the topic, right? But what it means by the last part: in the SOTW Entry Thread. I'm really sorry, I don't understand the word thread much.

[Strategist]

Thats if you are the creator of the current Signature of the Week competition. You don't need to worry about that section of the rules, this is the section you need to worry about:

Spoiler

Submitting an entry:

(i) Creating

Be sure to create your entry in accordance with the guidelines set by the person running the SOTW. Entries that don't match the criteria set will be regretfully declined. Contestants may re-apply until their entries meet the criteria set, but only before the deadline is up.

We encourage the use of stock images incorporated into your entry. Please refrain from just taking an image (which has been completed and is generally copyrighted anyway) and slapping some text and a border around it, as this will be considered as ripping someone elses hard work and calling it your own. Anyone found to be doing this will be disqualified from the current SOTW. Multiple occurrences will result in banning from future SOTW contests. We would like for entrants to further their skills by stepping outside their comfort zone and trying to learn new skills. There are plenty of tutorials out there to use Images taken from places like Deviantart.com can sometimes have restrictions set by the user who created them and this means you CANNOT use them in any way, shape or form for your own work, regardless of how much you change it. See this thread for examples.

DO NOT include your username in your submission. We want this to be a fair competition, and including your username could result in biased voting.

DO NOT openly post your work or PM to others for C&C. This will result in you being DQ'ed from the current SOTW comp and on further offences, banned from entering all together.

I have been asked a few times now if vertical signatures are allowed in the competition. I will allow them simply due to it being a different style and they can be quite interesting, however, we do not allow vertical signatures for regular forum use as they take up way too much room.

(ii) Submitting

When hosting your image, we insist you use a hosting service that gives your submission a completely anonymous URL, to ensure that we have a fair and unbiased competition (imageshack.us, tinypic.com etc etc BUT NOT PHOTOBUCKET/DEVIANTART as these are easily traceable). Once hosted, your submission will then have to be sent by way of Private Message the person running the SOTW who posted the guidelines that your entry was made in accordance with. Only then can your submission be valid.

The creator of the current SOTW must double check each URL submitted to them and make sure they aren't hosted by Photobucket, as it is very easy to trace who made the signature if they use PB.

Please be sure to use "SOTW #[number] Entry" as the subject of your Private Message when you submit your entry to ensure that it doesn't get left out.

Also, a thread is a topic on the forum, its just another way of calling it a topic

I'll change it just a bit to clarify.

[Kashi]

Thats if you are the creator of the current Signature of the Week competition. You don't need to worry about that section of the rules, this is the section you need to worry about:

Spoiler

Submitting an entry:

(i) Creating

Be sure to create your entry in accordance with the guidelines set by the person running the SOTW. Entries that don't match the criteria set will be regretfully declined. Contestants may re-apply until their entries meet the criteria set, but only before the deadline is up.

We encourage the use of stock images incorporated into your entry. Please refrain from just taking an image (which has been completed and is generally copyrighted anyway) and slapping some text and a border around it, as this will be considered as ripping someone elses hard work and calling it your own. Anyone found to be doing this will be disqualified from the current SOTW. Multiple occurrences will result in banning from future SOTW contests. We would like for entrants to further their skills by stepping outside their comfort zone and trying to learn new skills. There are plenty of tutorials out there to use Images taken from places like Deviantart.com can sometimes have restrictions set by the user who created them and this means you CANNOT use them in any way, shape or form for your own work, regardless of how much you change it. See this thread for examples.

DO NOT include your username in your submission. We want this to be a fair competition, and including your username could result in biased voting.

DO NOT openly post your work or PM to others for C&C. This will result in you being DQ'ed from the current SOTW comp and on further offences, banned from entering all together.

I have been asked a few times now if vertical signatures are allowed in the competition. I will allow them simply due to it being a different style and they can be quite interesting, however, we do not allow vertical signatures for regular forum use as they take up way too much room.

(ii) Submitting

When hosting your image, we insist you use a hosting service that gives your submission a completely anonymous URL, to ensure that we have a fair and unbiased competition (imageshack.us, tinypic.com etc etc BUT NOT PHOTOBUCKET/DEVIANTART as these are easily traceable). Once hosted, your submission will then have to be sent by way of Private Message the person running the SOTW who posted the guidelines that your entry was made in accordance with. Only then can your submission be valid.

The creator of the current SOTW must double check each URL submitted to them and make sure they aren't hosted by Photobucket, as it is very easy to trace who made the signature if they use PB.

Please be sure to use "SOTW #[number] Entry" as the subject of your Private Message when you submit your entry to ensure that it doesn't get left out.

Also, a thread is a topic on the forum, its just another way of calling it a topic

I'll change it just a bit to clarify.

I feel quite dumb. Heh. Well, another question: I must put the source of the images in my submission? And about this new SOTW, I need to put its image (which I saw that must be trackable to the submission) source indeed?

[Strategist]

Yeah you do. When you PM your entry to the user running the competition, you are encouraged to include the stock image you used so that we can see whether or not you've ripped someone elses work. This current SOTW competition, yes, you need to use the stock image provided by mintpro in your submission for it to qualify as an entry

[Kashi]

Ok. Thank you very much.