@the_hajduk: Offer a position for judges, and these judges need to be willing to write out why they vote for who they desire. Such as "It was the most well-written" or "It had me wishing for more" and such.
If you do post them publicly, you can do something similar, ask people exactly for, essentially, a review of the story instead of just dropping votes.
I may also recommend a 'tiered voting' system: Everyone gets three votes that they can distribute amongst different stories, or if they really like one story, they can give one story multiple votes. This way if one person has a story that a lot of like-minded people thinks is almost as good as another, but not quite as good, they don't get screwed out of votes in favor of say, another story far less people thought was good, but far more people were willing to vote that as their favorite.
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