OK, here's an update in regards to the story contest that hopefully answers most of the initial questions. I'll write some specific help text for the Story Contest software sometime between now and the start of voting.
Contest name: Summer Vacation Contest
Contest description: Spanking stories with a summer holiday theme
Originator: Katie B
Last date/time for submission: midnight (GMT) Fri, 25th June
Voting: 26th June to 4th July inclusive. (GMT)
The story contest software will be accessible by clicking the Latest button from the site menu and then the newly added Contest button. When the contest is open for voting this button will be yellow, in the meantime there won't be much to see (except details of previous contests and of course we have none of those yet).
Submitting a story for the contest
Stories can be submitted either by using the Contact Us button and pasting your story into the message box or by sending them to our main email address. If you don't have our main email address then either message one of the site admins via the Activity screen (click the envelope icon to the left of the admin's name) who will message you back and give it to you or send us a brief message again using the Contact Us button and we'll email you back.
Whichever way you do it please make sure your site user name is provided and you make it clear that the story is for the contest. Preferred format for stories is plain text but as described elsewhere we can handle most formats including rtf, pdf, Microsoft Word and others.
Stories submitted for the contest also go into the library so if your story is the first you will have had loaded then please make sure you provide the author name you want it credited to. It can be the same as your user name but alternatively you can choose something entirely different.
Stories submitted for the contest will be pre-formatted and loaded to the library in the usual way except that they will initially be set to "restricted" so that they will not be visible to other site users.
When the voting begins the Story Contest screen will list all the stories that were entered but the author names will not be shown, just the story titles.
Users will be able to view all of the stories from this screen. Note that contest stories will not appear in the Latest Read table, nor will the Activity page show the story details of what is being read. Similarly, should you decide to comment on a contest story you will only see your own comment and not those of others, nor will the comment show up in the Latest Commented list. And finally, if you decide to make one or more of the contest stories a 'favourite' it will only show up in your Favourites list when voting has concluded. All of these measures are simply to try and not reveal the names of the authors until voting has finished.
Each user has a total of 10 points which they can allocate to the contest stories in whatever manner they see fit except that no more than 5 points can be awarded to any one story. Authors can vote for their own stories if they want to. It will also be possible to change the number of points allocated to a story either by voting on it again with a different number of points or by deleting the vote and starting over.
At the end of the voting period it will no longer be possible to vote any more and the story contest screen will then show the top 3 stories along with how many points each received. In the case of a tie or ties then more than the top 3 will be shown. Points awarded for the other entries will not be shown as it could well be demotivating or upsetting to an author if they received very few points. However, if a particular author really wants to know they can always send us a popup message and we'll provide the info.
I think that's about all .. if there's any further questions or any of the above needs clarification then shout out and we'll do our best to clear things up. | 
