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(Originally posted on: 06-25-06 11:09:26 PM)
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For several years, INTL has existed as a stand-alone forum, bringing people from HG, SPSW, SA, and other assorted places together. That's great, but that sort of thing isn't going to help our user base grow. We need something that will attract people, and give them a reason to become an active INTL user.
Recently, IF0, ettyymyrxrisxys, and I have been tossing around the idea of a front page. In order to have a front page, we're going to need some content. In order to have some content, we're going to need some artists and writers. In order to get some artists and writers, we're going to need more INTLers. In order to get more INTLers, we're going to need a front page.
Fuck.
So, to jump-start this process, I hereby announce the
INTL Front Page Artist/Writer Recruiting Drive
Effective beginning now, and lasting until we get bored with it.
Let's keep this simple.
Before I turn the lot of you loose to save this god forsaken forum from becoming nothing more than a cloudy yet undying memory floating in the murky depths of archive.org, I have to set a one ground rule:
Keep your content work safe.
We want to attract as many people as possible, and we can't do that by having a flash animation of naked underage teenagers snorting lines of coke before exploding in a disturbingly graphic shower of flesh and organs sitting in the middle of the front page.
Sit the hell down, Brad.
To clarify:
If it's illegal in the US, then it's probably not worth writing an article over, unless you take some strange delight in spending time on writing something, only to have in painfully rejected by Rich's iron fist.
And, keep in mind, what counts as work safe at "Leeory's Bitchin' Barn of Bitches" doesn't cout as work safe at "Fraunhoffer and Associates Law".
For stupid crap like the copy protection schemes or pot, you can probably skate by.
Writers
We really don't care what format you submit your work in, as long as we can copy/paste the text quickly and easily. This means that DOC, RTF, and TXT files are fine. If for whatever reason you have to submit the text in another format, we'll figure something out.
Non-english articles are generally frowned-upon, since the majority of INTLers primarily speak English. This doesn't mean that a witty translation article about how every Spanish word really means "butts" is going to get the axe. Feel free to mix and match languages, but build the article such that it can be understood by us damn yankees.
If your article requires pictures, don't forget to send those too. If you don't send any pictures, we're going to assume that the article doesn't need any. See picture format/rules/guidelines below.
That being said, go nuts.
Artists
Same general rules as before.
Pictures can be submitted in just about any format, as long as we can read it.
This doesn't mean we've opened the door for you to send 800MB of uncompressed BMPs. You can spend weeks putting together some high quality pixel art in MS Paint, but if I have to convert more than three or four pictures to JPG/PNG/whatever, I'm going to run them through the Irfanview "batch convertor", which really should be called the Irfanview "Rancid Cat Piss Quality Filter" plugin.
However if you really do have a problem with converting your lovely pictures to a decent JPG image, send the BMP anyway along with a message citing the problem, and I might be nice enough to run it through Photoshop.
Flash cartoons are fine. We need more of these, really.
No non-work safe material. Pictures, being what they are, take much less time to offend than the written word. I don't care how many footballs you can fit up your ass, you shouldn't be taking pictures of such things, we are certainly not going to host an article/slideshow about it, and if you send me a picture anyway, I'm going to crawl through your cable modem and crush your head.
Fires, explosions, people get shot, whatever, is fine as long as it's not particularly gory/digusting/disturbing.
For both - I really shouldn't have to say this, but no stolen material. We are not the next goddamn eBaum's World. Submit only your own work.
So, for those of you interested in contributing, send your content to one of the following e-mail addresses:
theperfectcore@gmail.com
rchif0@gmail.com
Quote:
[21:34: 16] rchif0: "this message is IF0 approved"
EDIT BY IF0:
http://forums.interestingnonetheless.net/forum.php?fid=75
Post your possible contributions into that. They will be approved, critiqued, whatever.
Faggy_Brad said: And TPC, I'm pretty sure that God is just so amused by your angry mannerisms that he just pisses you off as much as possible.
Brad, go kill yourself, I am so sick of you and your shit
This reply was last edited on 07-05-06 07:33:14 PM by IF0.
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