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Submission Guidelines
General: Be funny. Let me repeat that: Be funny! Also be satirical, tongue-in-cheek, ironic, bold. Challenge conventional wisdom and the status quo. Target dishonesty, greed, hypocrisy, vanity, stupidity... all the things that make us human. Don't submit editorial diatribes, political boosterism, wind-bag commentaries or advertisements disguised as content. Please don't submit more than once per category, per day. (The Specious Report doesn't send rejection notices, so please don't submit the same thing multiple times. If your contribution isn't approved, and you'd like editoral guidance, we encourage you to ask for it.)
Be original. Only submit your own work, not something you found. If it's from your own website, book, CD, etc., include the URL and we'll link it as the Source. If it was originally published on someone else's website, include their URL and make sure it's okay with them to rerun it. (Please note the "Copyrights" section in Terms of Service.)
Be current. Anything timely (or timeless): politics, popular culture, current events. Well-written parody news stories are fine, but we encourage you to think outside that well-worn genre.
Be as "family friendly" as possible. Excessively "blue" content can be accessed by registered members only, which will severely limit your audience.
Stories (text only*): Copy and paste from a simple text program; disable "special characters" such as open- and close-quotes, or ligatures. Please avoid ALL CAPS; if you're familiar with basic html, you may include italic or bold type where necessary. Double-return between paragraphs; do not indent. Do not double-space after periods. Spell-check and proofread before submitting.
There is no maximum length for a story, but shorter is better - 250 to 500 words is a good target. Your submission will be declined if extremely long, or extremely un-funny. Your text may be edited.
If you want to include a graphic with your story, send an inquiry for approval. (For copyright reasons, we will not publish unaltered news photos.)
Images (cartoon, illustration, photoshop, animated gif, etc.*): Your image can be a maximum of 572 pixels wide, at 72 px/in resolution. Accepted file extensions are .jpg, .jpeg and .gif only. Overly-large file sizes will be re-compressed.
Include a "Description" for your image (this will only appear on the Image Index page beneath the headline). A field is also provided for an accompanying caption, if necessary, but it is not required.
Video (movie, flash animation, flash game, etc.*): Your video should be no wider than 572 pixels. (If you do not enter a numeric value for dimensions, it will automatically be displayed at 500px wide.) Accepted file extensions are .mov and .swf only. If your file is larger than 10Mb, you must host it somewhere else (either on your own server, or on a video service such as YouTube) and submit an embed code instead.
Include a "Description" for your video (this will only appear on the Video Index page beneath the headline). A field is also provided for an accompanying caption, if necessary, but it is not required.
Audio (music, midi file, spoken word, etc.*): Your audio file should be no larger than 10Mb. Accepted file extensions are .mp3 and .mid only.
Include a "Description" for your audio (this will only appear on the Audio Index page beneath the headline). You may upload an image, up to 240 pixels wide, to appear with your audio (a photo or illustration, your CD cover art, etc.) but it is not required. A field is provided for accompanying text (lyrics, credits, a caption, etc.) but this also is not required.
*If you have a submission idea that doesn't fit any of these categories, submit an inquiry.
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