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Hello all, I also wanted to raise another controversial issue.  Andy has said - and I respect this conclusion - that the goal of the contest should be to encourage results, to improve the encyclopedia, rather than effort.  However, I'd like to add another way of looking at this issue.  I believe that defining "results" as just "pages created" ignores the quality and distinctiveness aspect of Conservapedia.  The reason I came to this site is because it's so unique; where else will you see content written by conservatives for conservatives, like this?  I'm of the mind that our rules, accordingly, should encourage original creation of content far-and-away above copied content.  Please don't construe this conclusion as "sour grapes" due to SSchultz's commanding lead, either - I'm about to do a copy/paste run myself :-).-[[User:MexMax|MexMax]] 20:04, 12 November 2007 (EST)

Hello all, I also wanted to raise another controversial issue.  Andy has said - and I respect this conclusion - that the goal of the contest should be to encourage results, to improve the encyclopedia, rather than effort.  However, I'd like to add another way of looking at this issue.  I believe that defining "results" as just "pages created" ignores the quality and distinctiveness aspect of Conservapedia.  The reason I came to this site is because it's so unique; where else will you see content written by conservatives for conservatives, like this?  I'm of the mind that our rules, accordingly, should encourage original creation of content far-and-away above copied content.  Please don't construe this conclusion as "sour grapes" due to SSchultz's commanding lead, either - I'm about to do a copy/paste run myself :-).-[[User:MexMax|MexMax]] 20:04, 12 November 2007 (EST)

:While I have always used the old fashioned hand typing method, it has been a regular part of past contests to do cut and paste from outside websites where there is no copyright.  The difference with this contest, that I see, is that SSchultz has raised it to a new level of efficiency.  I'd imagine there will be rule changes afterwards, but let's be careful that he doesn't get raised eyebrows right now just because he's been better at it that anyone else. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 20:14, 12 November 2007 (EST)

:While I have always used the old fashioned hand typing method, it has been a regular part of past contests to do cut and paste from outside websites where there is no copyright.  The difference with this contest, that I see, is that SSchultz has raised it to a new level of efficiency.  I'd imagine there will be rule changes afterwards, but let's be careful that he doesn't get raised eyebrows right now just because he's been better at it than anyone else. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 20:14, 12 November 2007 (EST)