Welcome to the House Cup thread for August! Please read through the information below so you will know what types of posts gain your house point and what types of posts lose them. As always, if you have a question, please PM me or any other staff member.
Last month's winner was Ravenclaw! Congratulations!
Please feel free to use these avatars in your signature or as your avatar. You will need to copy the image to your computer and upload it onto an imaging site before using. Thanks! Last Months House Cup Avatar winner was sadie_urlady523!! Congratulations!
Best of luck to you and your house!
Please send me any submissions for the design for the August House Cup avatar! This is another good way to gain your house points as both submissions and the winner receives points! Please make sure you put include an indication of the month, year and house as well as including VTM House Cup. I know it's a lot to fit in, so be creative!
As you know, we strive to provide a safe and fun atmosphere for people who enjoy Harry Potter to hang out and get to know other fans. The staff often brainstorms ways to make your time here more enjoyable. We've come up with something new that we think you will all be excited about!
The VTM House Cup!
The staff of VTM are going to be patrolling the forums and awarding or deducting points from the four houses that you were either sorted into from the sorting quiz or the house that you claim.
Here's how it works!
All you guys need to do is continue posting as normal, abiding by the rules. As the moderators and Head Aurors (and admins) go through our daily jobs, we'll keep an eye out for exceptional posts and rule-breaking. Following the rules could potentially earn your house points. Breaking rules might get points deducted.
Here are a few things that will get points awarded to your house: Great posts, fanfiction of the month feature, winning the fanfiction contest, certain Quidditch Pitch answers. . .pretty much anything! At times we also award random points for things that amuse us!
Some things that might get points deducted: One-liners, netspeak, rude posting.
If you earn your house some points, you will see a staff member post in this thread telling everyone who won the points for which house and how many points are awarded. If you lose your house points, you will see a post that merely says the certain house has lost points. You won't be singled out. You may receive a PM telling you that you've lost your house some points, or you may see that information in the moderator edit in your post that has broken the rules. We will not single you out in this thread.
Mistakes happen, so please bear this in mind if your house loses some points. Do not search the forums to rant at the person who has lost points.
Awarding points is totally subjective. Not every post will earn or lose points even if some of you think the post should do one or the other. The points are at the sole discretion of the staff member who is awarding the points, so please do not start PMming staffers to tell them about a post you think deserves points. Though most of the staff members have been sorted and also have a house, we promise you that we award points without any bias towards a particular house. Half the time, we don't even know what house a person belongs to until we PM them to ask.
At the end of the month, the house with the most points will win the VTM House Cup for that month! The House Cup will be an avatar you can display, provided you follow the avatar/signature rules, in your avatar or signature. You'll be awarded the Cup in this thread where you can copy the image to your computer and upload it to your choice of photo sharing sites to use on VTM.
Please do not post in this thread but do check here often to see how your house is faring.
If you have not been sorted into a house, consider taking the sorting quiz or at least claiming a house. If we do not see a specific house, we will contact you via PM to see if you have a house that you prefer. It makes it a little easier on us if you have your house listed somewhere, whether it's in your signature or in your profile.
We will update the totals periodically throughout the month.
Triad
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House Points: August
RAVENCLAW: 55
GRYFFINDOR: 75
HUFFLEPUFF: 130
SLYTHERIN: 125
