Monday, April 27, 2009

Tweet the Meat News: Submission stats; about themes

The first submission period was a rousing success. We have finished the first round of reading, and we will soon start sending out letters.

Here are some statistics:

Submissions: 111

Outright rejections because the sub was too long: 23

Outright rejections because the sub was WAY too long: 2

Number of people who wrote to express outrage at the sub auto-reply: 2

Number of stories involving decapitated heads: 14 (That's not a bad thing, mind you.)

Number of dead babies: 6

Number of vampire-themed stories: 8

Number of stories submitted in TXT SPK: 0 (Thank you!)

The first user-submitted story will appear on Friday, May 1st.

Themes

Starting next submission period, we are introducing themes. Each week we may have a theme from which we will accept the majority of the stories. You do not have to follow the theme if you feel you have a great submission. From time to time we may also have a weekend-only 'secret theme.' Only people who submitted the week before will learn what the secret theme is.

Theme for 5/2: Wet

As always, if you have any questions, ask. Tweetthemeat (at) gmail.com

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6 comments:

  1. Yay! That is a great submission response. I love the idea of 'secret themes'. :)

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  2. That is hilarious! Glad to know I'm not the only one that wrote about a dead baby, by the way.

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  3. Seriously though, the automated reply would be fine if each sub wasn't a separate email, but no one needs to get 5 auto-replies. :p Just don't bother with it, if people receive a reply in the end, I'm sure they'll trust you read it.

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  4. Yeah, I'm going to try to figure out a way to see if I can limit the auto-reply to 1 per email address per day. It's all gmail-based, so I'm not sure if I can do it or not.

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  5. If you would limit the autoreply it will be awesome.

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  6. the stats and the whole concept of the post, all the things are tremendous.

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