How to vote for the purplest prose

[reph]

The Purple Prose Contest has a sticky thread for entries and another sticky thread, the Peanut Gallery, for comments. This post in the middle of the Peanut Gallery thread tells how to vote:

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showpost.php?p=328088&postcount=52

[MacAllister]

Oh damn! I thought you were going to give us little scorecards where we could givea predetermined number of points for things like extra adverbs and adjectives, unnecessary obfuscation, and other verbal curly-cues.

It would have been such a tidy approach...

[maestrowork]

It's an art form, Mac. You can't judge art that way. ;)

[robeiae]

Wait...isn't there some kind of diagram to judge the greatness of poetry? (think Dead Poets Society) Could we use something like that?

Rob :)

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