{"id":1808,"date":"2007-08-15T08:35:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2007-08-15T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:37:20","slug":"the-odysseus-medal-some-rule-changes-and-a-clickable-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1808\/the-odysseus-medal-some-rule-changes-and-a-clickable-button\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odysseus Medal: Some rule changes, and a clickable button"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was beyond delighted at the way things worked out in the first Odysseus Medal competition<\/a>. Even so, I want to make few changes in the rules.<\/p>\n

Ordinary weblogging carnivals are all about link-baiting. The idea is for you to get your weblog linked by the host weblog, and for the host weblog to get linked by all the entrants, and, with luck, some other weblogs as well. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, but it does explain why the quality of the entries can be of less than paramount importance.<\/p>\n

This is not what we’re about, so why should we approach things that way? I’m happy to link back to entrants, but I expect we’re linking back all the time to most of the people we will hear from, anyway. We’re not interested in linking, in or out, we’re interested in the best quality real estate weblogging we can unearth.<\/p>\n

So: The rules are changed to this:<\/p>\n

The Rules<\/b> (few and fair):<\/p>\n

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  1. The entry must have been posted within the two weeks before the entry deadline\n<\/li>\n
  2. The entrant need not be the author of the post\n<\/li>\n
  3. More than one entry from the same weblog is fine\n<\/li>\n
  4. More than one entry from the same person is also fine, with those entries coming from one or more weblogs\n<\/li>\n
  5. No second-guessing, no do-overs, no cry-babies<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Rules #2 and #4 have been changed. There’s no reason a third party cannot enter a particularly excellent post. When I’ve given out The Odysseus Medal in the past, no one was entering anything; I was picking out work I thought was worth celebrating. You should be able to do the same. The change in rule #4 simply acknowledges that some of the biggest names in the RE.net are writing all over the place. We want to honor their best work no matter how many examples of it are submitted.<\/p>\n

    I’ve also built a sidebar button, 160 pixels wide, that you can use to promote The Odysseus Medal competition, if you want:<\/p>\n