We are currently running an Article Contest at the Admin Zone. Prizes will include an owned vBulletin license, a lifetime Invision Power Board License, a PhotoPost license, vBAdvanced Gallery and vBAdvanced Links licenses, a Subdreamer Pro 2.0 license, an eXtremePixels all access pass for either IPB, vB or phpBB, and several year-long hosting packages (from NBSDesign, SB-Host, and PerfectSQL). Winners will be able to pick the prize of their choice from among those available in the order they place in the contest. Articles can include interviews, how-to's, or any information of value to online Community Administrators. When you come up with an idea for a topic, you are encouraged to send me a PM about it and I'll let you know if I think it's a good one. Each article must be original work which has not been published elsewhere. The minimum length is 500 words. You may enter as many articles as you like. Submissions will be accepted until the end of June. In the event there are less than 25 articles in the running by the end of June the contest may be extended until we get to 25. Prizes will be awarded to at least the top 10 article writers, and possibly more! There are additional details Here for anyone interested in entering.
Sorry, but why is this? If it's a contest why does it have to go through you to see if it's a good topic? Good way of gathering articles though
Oh, it's certainly not required. When we had our previous contest there were some people who were uncertain about their chosen topics so I added that bit to let everyone know that they could run a topic by me if they want to, that's all. Some do, some don't. It's all good...
You guys kill me! That's gotta be true. However, one would think it could be a way of getting a nice link for the publishing effort as well.