Hello, @Swissclive. You disqualified my text becouse it doesnt have a plot. Here is the link for other people to see and join the debate: https://steemit.com/story-300words/@decomoescribir/the-drama-of-the-communs

I would like to discuss, and hope that Steem is also about creating valuable with debate and not just about writing "your are great, your are amazing, nice post..." give-me-monney'ish kind of stuff...

What do you understand by a plot? so if i write: "it was a boy, who went into the school, got bullied and became a murderer" that would apply for the contest? that has a plot, rigth? By your definition, many great contemporary authors would also be desqualified, like Faulkner, by following your advice...

Im defending the time it took me to make an idea into its simplest form, and i know thats ficition, becouse ive being 10 years into reading and writing, and i can make an argument with evidence of authors who i got inspired from...

What i think you meant by desqualifying my text, is extension, you want people t write with the extension you purposed... well, then my advice is to be clear... say: at least 100 to 300 words... then, that would make sense...

I dont mean to offend, but to expand, debate and share knowledge... Your contest, your rules, and that's ok... it just feels really arbitrary that someone comes and says: "your art is not art, becouse art is what i understand of art"... thinking as mainstream as that art would never took forms like surrealism, impresionism, romanticism, and we would still be landscaping like 1600 years ago and making counted-verse poetry... dont you think?

i would like to hear a good counter-argument so i can expand my knowledge, and if im wrong, to accept it...