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So in the new Blog Contest by Planet Minecraft, there is a 250 word count, if you exceed the word limit you can not submit. I don't see the point of this and it is causing me problems.
Firstly, the judges have to read every story so having them put the story in a word counting website or a program would be very little extra effort, plus with this limit you can not add anything else like an introduction or having the video link in the description so people don't have to go looking and can watch the video if they haven't and then can read the story, etc.
Now, back to my problem, it is having issues and saying my word count is exceeded and is 253 words long when I keep putting it in different word counting programs along with counting it myself and it comes out to be around 543. Now, I finally got it to upload but I didn't finish editing, when I went back to edit I changed the size so it's easier to read and such and it wouldn't let me go through with the edit saying once again that it was 253 words even though it accepted it as less a minute ago.
So all around I've found the word count to be nothing but frustrating to me and do not see how it makes anything better.
Firstly, the judges have to read every story so having them put the story in a word counting website or a program would be very little extra effort, plus with this limit you can not add anything else like an introduction or having the video link in the description so people don't have to go looking and can watch the video if they haven't and then can read the story, etc.
Now, back to my problem, it is having issues and saying my word count is exceeded and is 253 words long when I keep putting it in different word counting programs along with counting it myself and it comes out to be around 543. Now, I finally got it to upload but I didn't finish editing, when I went back to edit I changed the size so it's easier to read and such and it wouldn't let me go through with the edit saying once again that it was 253 words even though it accepted it as less a minute ago.
So all around I've found the word count to be nothing but frustrating to me and do not see how it makes anything better.
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The word count is ridiculous, yes.
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Might be something with the BBCode. Do you have bold/italic/color text? Pretty sure multiple people are having this problem. It would be better without the word limit, but asking judges to copy and paste the entry in a program to see the count seems a little too much. Good luck.
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I totally agree with you dude. That's why im not entering this
EDIt I am entering
EDIt I am entering