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Community InformationBelow is information about the "The Icon Ritz" community on LiveJournal. To join this community, click here. You may leave the community at any time.
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| User: | the_icon_ritz (638913) The Icon Ritz
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| About: |   Hello & welcome to The Icon Ritz, the LiveJournal icon contest community dedicated to recognizing those better-than-the-rest icons & those who create them! Here, icon creators & admirers alike can enter individual icons into a competition for a chance at winning one of our various weekly awards. The Icon Ritz boasts having many diverse categories under which an icon can be nominated & with so many ways to win, it's no wonder we have such a magnificent, growing community!This community was founded on July 22, 2002 by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} merulu and is currently maintained by emissivity, with lenabee and yogurtpixi as co-moderators.  At ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} the_icon_ritz, there are many different categories to choose from if you are looking to nominate an icon. Below is a list of all of the current categories at the Ritz along with previously used categories from the past months. For a category description, just click on the title of the category you would like to learn more about.
The categories listed here are never permanently set in stone, so if you have a suggestion for a new category, post about it in the community! Remember though, that this is a community for individual icons, not icon sets! Best Winter: Icons depicting anything that has to do with the season of winter In addition to the aforementioned categories, the Ritz will periodically announce a new category in honour of certain holidays. The majourity of these categories will be open for one week after their announcement.  All award sets are uploaded to our own servers for viewing purposes only, therefore, we at the Ritz ask that you please upload all awards to your own servers when choosing to use them.Ideally, if you're interested in making an award set, it would be a good idea to make sure that your set has an award for all of the categories listed thus far. However, we know that categories are constantly undergoing change & in addition to a new category each month, periodic contests/categories can be a bit of a hassle to create new awards for. Therefore, in order to allow the moderators of the community to create awards for later categories using the same template, we ask that you do the following when submitting an award set. Post your award set in the community or e-mail with the following information:
 1. This is an awards community for individual icons & not a forum for icon requests or general awarding. There will be absolutely no requesting of icons here and nominations for "best layout", etc will result in prompt action by the moderator. There are other communities catering to those needs, and as such, the_icon_ritz will not tolerate any sort of deviations from its stated purpose.2. Weekly nominations will be cut off at 10:00 PM EST every other Friday. Any nominations made after this time will be placed in the next week's round-up. The results of each week's round-up will usually be posted before the following Monday night, if all voting has been completed. Due to the size of the community, some delays are to be expected in conducting both the weekly round-up as well as the winners' announcements. 3. Only members of the community may nominate icons, however, the people being nominated do not have to be as such. Membership in the community is open to everyone, provided that users follow the community rules. 4. Icons that are acceptable for competition are those that can be uploaded to the LiveJournal servers as a userpic. This means that all icons nominated must meet the following requirements:
5. Any one user can only make up to 10 nominations every two weeks. Out of these ten nominations, only three may be self-nominations, meaning that you can only nominate yourself three times every two weeks. If a user posts any number of self-nominations, it is then required to nominate at least one icon that is by a different user. Any posts containing more than ten nominations will be disregarded, unless otherwise allowed by a moderator. For clarification as to what is permissible for 10 nominations, please see this FAQ. 6. The icon that you are nominating must fit into the respective category under which you are nominating it. This means that an icon nominated in the Best Video Game category must be from a video game, an artistic icon must be made entirely by the creator, etc. If the icon does not fall under the conditions of its category, it is not eligible to win. Note that this rule applies only to the technical aspects of the category, and individual interpretation of certain categories will not disqualify an icon. 7. An individual icon cannot win the same category twice within a 6 month period of time. Therefore, the moderators humbly ask that before nominating an icon, please check the community ritz_winners to see if that icon has previously won in a specific category. The moderators understand that in some cases, previous icons have been lost or cannot be viewed, and in this case, this rule will not be enforced for that particular icon.8. If an icon has not won an award, there is no limit as to how many times you may nominate it from week to week. Any one icon can be nominated as many times as one feels is necessary, provided that any one user is only making up to 10 nominations per week. Once an icon has won in a category, it may no longer be nominated in that specific category. There are no exceptions except those mentioned in rule 7. 9. A user may not nominate an icon set as a whole for an award. If a user nominates five icons from an icon set (in different or in the same categories), his or her nominations are acceptable, however, one may not nominate an icon set as if it were a singular icon. 10. Advertising that pertains to the subject of icons in this community is allowed in moderation. Please do not make this community a plugging board as community_promo is made specifically for that purpose. If one is unsure about whether or not their advertisement pertains to icons, ask one of the moderators for clarification. Any advertising that is in violation of the LiveJournal Terms of Service is not allowed & will be dealt with according to what the moderators feel is necessary. Excessive advertising or solicitation will result in a user's banning from the_icon_ritz. In order to maintain a fair yet competitive environment, the_icon_ritz has a group of 50 judges who vote on the nominated icons during each week's round-up. Judge filtration is done in order to make sure that all judges are fair & active in the community, and judge removal does occur if inactivity or bias is evident. The following users are listed as judges at the Icon Ritz:Undergoing massive reconstruction If a user is interested in becoming a judge, please note that judging positions are limited & have a high demand. To be added as a judge, a user must have taken the specified judges' bias test and passed. However, due to the specific amount of judges allowed at one time, there are instances when a user has passed the test & was not able to become a judge. In this case, their username will be added to the Judges' Waiting List in the order of which they took the judges' test. Note that all judging occurs in the community ritz_judges & is not posted within the_icon_ritz.          If you are interested in becoming an affiliate or partner of the Ritz, please contact the moderator of the community at the-ritz@bonbon.net. If you want to be linked, you must send us a 88 × 31 pixel button to use (it will be uploaded to our own servers).   We at the Ritz ask that you please upload all links & awards to your own servers when choosing to use them.  How do I post an image in my entries? I want to become a judge! What do I have to do? I think a judge is being biased! What can I do? Where do I put my awards? Is it required to always have them posted? How do I make a nomination? What's considered X number of nominations? Can I use the icons nominated here in my personal journal? If you have any questions regarding procedure here at the Ritz, feel free to either post your question or e-mail the moderators. We will try to answer your questions as quickly as possible.Special thanks go out to merky for buying the community 2 months of a paid account!Version 03, "100×100 Karat Gold" of the_icon_ritz was made by digitalised. The graphics were done using Photoshop 7.0 & the coding was done in Notepad.
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