WET Sticky

[Levina]

In the title field: Weekend Task #XX followed by your theme

In the thread: Repeat the theme and give a description of what you are looking for with your chosen theme for the challenge.

As host be sure to mention if this will be a voting week or a pick the winner week!

Copy/paste the below text:


This challenge begins when posted and ends at midnight GMT on FILL IN DATE. The winner will be announced shortly thereafter.

The WET Rules: ​

The General Image rules:​

1. Camera: Any CAMERA is allowed (images from scanned film are also allowed);
2. Post only ONE photo;
3. Time: Any on-topic photo taken at any time is eligible, although photos that have won other competitions should NOT be entered (meaning won competitions here, so no problem as of yet!);
4. Size: Maximum image size is 1600px on the long end. Minimum size is 800px;
5. Post Processing: Do whatever you like, and the host will decide if it works;
6. Title your image;
7. Posting: ONE PHOTO per photographer per challenge. List camera model & lens used. Post brief EXIF data: ISO, shutter speed and aperture (when images are attached the EXIF will be added below the images automatically);
8. Commenting: No commenting and/or Likes during challenge. After the challenge is closed discussion is encouraged;
9. Keep it clean, and both family and work safe;
10. Have lots of FUN;
11. This text is available in a sticky. Copy the text and paste it in the new thread.

The rules for choosing the winner in a voting week:​

1. Once the challenge is closed on Monday, anyone may cast their votes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places;
2. People who didn't enter a photograph are also allowed to vote;
3. The votes will be tallied as follows: 1st Place = 3 points, 2nd Place = 2 points, and 3rd Place = 1 point;
4. The host of the challenge may also enter a photo and is encouraged to do so;
5. Should the host win, the runner up will host the next challenge, so as to avoid the same person hosting in two consecutive weeks;
6. After the challenge has ended, everyone is invited to comment / provide feedback about your vote choices!

The rules for choosing the winner when the hosts chooses the winner:​

1. When the hosts decide to choose the winner him/herself, the rule is simple: he or she picks the winner;
2. The host is encouraged to give us his/her thoughts on the competing images;
3. The host is not allowed to submit an image of his/her own.

Hosting:​

1. The challenge host is the winner of the last challenge;
2. Once your win is announced, go to Games, Competitions and Challenges and choose "Post thread";
3. In the top (title) line, enter Weekend Task #X - Your Topic
4. Copy / paste the sticky in your new thread, fill in the right data (title, description, data etc.) and click "Post thread", at the bottom of the page. Or simply click the QUOTE button and then in your new thread choose INSERT QUOTE, toggle off the BBcode, remove the QUOTE buttons and toggle on the BBcode button again. Instructions for that are here.
5. Soon after noon GMT on the next Tuesday, post the sum of the votes for first, second, and third place. No ties, please;
6. If the winner can't be contacted and doesn't respond by Wednesday noon GMT, the second-place winner will host the challenge. If both are unavailable, the third-place winner will host.

Link to Sticky with template.

>> THE WINNER ALWAYS SETS THE THEME FOR THE NEXT CHALLENGE AND HOSTS IT - BE PREPARED <<

 

[Levina]

Explanation of how to QUOTE the sticky and remove the QUOTE tags.​

Go to the Sticky and click the QUOTE button.

Open a new thread to start your challenge. Type in the title in the title field: Weekend Task #XXX - followed by the theme.
In the editor, click on INSERT QUOTES:

And in the pop up window click on QUOTE MESSAGES:

You will now have the full text of the sticky in the editor. But it is quoted and we don't want that. Here's how you can change it.

Go to the toggle on/off button in the upper right corner of the editor and click on it:

This will turn off the BBcode and you will see the plain text with the code itself. Now it's simple: remove the QUOTE tags at the beginning and the end of the quoted text. The QUOTE tag is between square brackets. The opening QUOTE tag has some information in it (here in blue) but you need to delete everything within the brackets, including the brackets itself.

The end tag is very simple, it's just this:

Delete that too.

So basically just remove the [QU0TE] and [/QU0TE] tags.

If you did it right your quoted text is no longer quoted but a normal text. Don't forget to toggle the BBcode back on so the code disappears!

That's it.

Let me know if anything is unclear.