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This section is just fine the way it is; a contest wouldn't really do any good for it.
No, it's not: the fan fiction section hasn't been "fine" for a while now.
I've only been on KHI for a while now ... back before it was KHI actually, when it was just KH2.net. I started out in this section, and while I've drifted away, I still look back on memories where this was my KHI home.
Trust me, I've seen it progress, a lot. In early '05, it was a small and tight-knit community. There were a few good, long-term fics up where we all congregated: one big family. People like my own dear Krazy will remember those times, but not many others, because most of the good old crowd {Kingdom Clasm, DaRkNeSs2LiGhT, Winged Mirage} has left KHI forever.
Then, during the late summer/fall of that same year, a lot new people started pouring in. Like some kind of cyber migration. This section changed forever. There were a lot more people, and that was good, but there was also a lot more spam, and equally spam-fics. Quality of fics went down. Animosity rose.
I'm not saying the fan fiction section isn't good now. But compared to the place I used to know and love, it isn't the same, and I'm not happy with it. I've been watching its decadence from afar. A lot of us veterens have, and we've been talking about a revival lately.
And the question still remains: how do we spark this revival?
I think I'm a little too late. I doubt anyone here really knows me, but, as I've mentioned, my name used to be inseperable from Fan Fiction Forum. Not now: now I'm a role-playing fiend. So my word probably doesn't carry much weight anymore.
Listen anyway.
Everyone needs to stop worrying about how many people read their story and how many people review: STOP spamming everywhere just badgering others to read your own fics. A post of "ths is gr8 keep it up oh ya i have a fic to can u read it plz" means nothing.
What writers here need to be worrying about is the quality of their own work. Make it something admirable and worthwhile: that in itself will help to improve this section.