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Pick My Best
The Icontest Where Icon Makers Compete Against Themselves

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by beauty_untold (May/June 2008 Header Contest Winner) The Icontest Where Everybody Wins
Welcome to Pick My Best!
pickmybest is an icontest community that works a bit differently from other icontests. Instead of competing against other iconmakers, you're competing against yourself to find your top three icons according to the voters. All icon subjects (aside from Adult) are allowed--Books, Movies, Celebrities, Anime, Manga, Music, etc. It's all about quality. For more information, check out the FAQ. The only time you'll be up against other makers is in the header competition. Once a month the moderators of Pick My Best will nominate ten batches of icons, and the winner will have their icons featured in the community's header. The competition is voluntary, so if you don't want your icons entered simply opt out. Learn More. If you'd like to post your icons for judging, read the Maker's Rules and Maker's FAQ, join, and then apply for posting access. If you'd like to vote, read the Voter's Rules and the Voter's FAQ, then start picking your favorite icons! A Round lasts 2 weeks. Submission run for one week, or until we reach 90 batches. Following that, voting week opens immediately afterwards for another week. All openings and closings are done at 8PM CST. Ribbons for the previous round are handed out durring the next round's submission week. Detailed dates can be found on the side menu on the most recent entries page. Note: All icons belong to their creators. Check their rules on sharing before taking any icons.
Voter's Rules	Maker's Rules
State your 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st choices in that order by commenting on the same entry where the icons are displayed. You can find the code for voting here. Be certain to give your reasons for picking these icons above all the rest. Brief comments are fine, but should be something more insightful than, "It's so pretty!" Try something like, "Your use of coloring in this icon really grabbed my eye." Feel free to vote for as many different batches of icons as you'd like, but you may only vote once per batch. Flaming and obnoxious behavior will not be tolerated. Please treat all makers and fellow voters with respect.	The maximum number of icons in a batch you can post for judging is 50. The fewest you can post is 25. You can only submit one batch of icons per round. Do not re-post any icon if you included it in a previous batch. Posts with broken image links will be deleted. Keep this in mind when deciding to display your icons here. You will receive a warning letting you know an image isn't showing up, but if you do not respond within a week of the warning, the post will be deleted. If it's a problem with bandwidth, let us know and we'll allow the post to remain for a month before deleting it. If the problem persists, you won't be banned, but we will encourage you to find alternative hosting. This should be obvious, but if we find out that any icon posted under your name is not your own creation, you will be banned. All icons must meet LiveJournal standards. 100x100px max, and less than 40kb. Since we'd like this community to be open for as many people as possible, adult icons aren't allowed. Artistic nudity is alright, but please put a warning before the lj cut. Mild swearing is allowed, and it will be up to the mods' discretion. It must be placed under the lj-cut with a warning. No posting of brushes, textures, patterns, gradients, or anything else besides batch entries. If you have entered a round, voting in at least two other icon maker's batch submissions is required. If you choose to code your own icon table, please put the numbers above your icons to keep confusion at a minimum. Flaming and obnoxious behavior will not be tolerated. Please treat all voters and fellow makers with respect. Make sure you have joined the community and read the Submitting Batches FAQ. Tell us your favorite color in the subject of your application to post so the Mods know you've read and agree to the rules.
June 2006 LiveJournal Spotlight

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Special Thanks
77words for her fabulous patterns, one of which is used in the layout. everything_lj for teaching me how to code S1 free layouts and showing me a new way to set up these crazy information pages. premade_ljs for further inspiration on the layout, especially with the navigation menu.