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Contribute to E&N! Written By Marion and posted on: 10-11-08 So you may be wondering what the hell this is all about. Well I'm here to tell you what it's about, so stop nagging and listen! Here at E&N, we've all been where you are at some point. We've all read this kind of site and sooner or later were inspired to write stuff of our own. Now you too can follow in our footsteps, with 100% less webhosting fees and 57.3% less drama! If you would like to see your articles on this site, all you have to do is follow a few simple procedures and guidelines. First, you must be registered on the E&N forums. Hey, it helps us get more activity on the boards, and it's the only way we have to get user-submitted content on the site without making you individually mail it to me or Jew and have to wait on us to post it. Once you're registered, feel free to head to the contributor forum and post what you've got for us. From there, it will be subject to admin approval. Once it's cleared that hurdle, you're good to go and it's headed for the main page. So what kinds of things could get your article rejected? I'm glad you asked! We're pretty flexible with what kind of content we'll allow on this site, but there are some rules that we won't bend on. Some of the rules to follow (In no particular order, and not necessarily a complete list): 1. Have a sense of humor or at least write something worth reading. This is predominantly a humorous site, so the funnier your article is, the better. That said, not everything on the site has to be funny. If you are going to write a serious article, however, at least make sure it's something worth reading. A review discussing the various aspects of a hot, newly released videogame is a great fit for the site. A ten thousand word essay on why you think your city needs to clean up the water supply probably isn't the best idea for E&N. We also don't want to hear about your Posse. Take that shit to MX Classic! This also isn't a blog, so we don't give a shit what you ate today, how awesome it was the way Joey looked at you in homeroom, or what offseason moves you think the Cubs need to make to properly continue losing. 2. Follow the basic forum rules. This includes proper grammar, avoiding porn, avoiding racism, and not being a complete prick. The full list of forum rules can be found here and are updated as new rules are added. If it's something you can't do on the forums, you probably can't do it in your articles here. Absolutely no porn under any circumstances! You can talk about all manner of filthy, disgusting, vile sex all you want, just don't you dare show it. This will result in banning from the forums, and permanent loss of the ability to contribute to the main site. Also, since these will become main page articles, we're going to be especially mindful of the grammar and spelling rule. It's already hard enough having to edit Jew's articles. I'm not gonna completely proofread and spellcheck yours, too! 3. Follow the same basic format the rest of the articles use. This includes centering images and keeping images to a maximum of 500 pixels wide. We worked hard to get the site looking the way we want it. We don't need you breaking the layout with a wallpaper-sized picture of the inside of your anus. If you need to show your huge images, we can have a smaller version that fits in the 500px restriction and just make it link to the full image. 4. Don't plagiarize! We here at E&N have been subject to plagiarism of our own work and it sucks. Plus it just makes the person doing it look lame. We will not tolerate the posting of any plagiarized articles. If we find out you have been passing off 5. (For now) Use common sense. This isn't the only guidelines that should be followed, but merely what we've managed to think up so far. These rules may be subject to change at any time, and as more come to mind, they will be added to this posting. That said, just use some common sense when submitting articles to us. Look at the rest of the articles and try and follow a similar format and discern what is and is not acceptable from them. Stop and think for a moment if a pictorial of the history of child pornography is really something that should be posted (Protip: It's not). Use the information in these rules, but also combine it with some common sense and you should do just fine around here. If all else fails, just ask a staff member. With all of that out of the way, we look forward to seeing what comes of this. Head on over to the contributor forum and show us what you can do. If everything goes right, you just might see your work here very soon! |
