With the contest done, next weekend means a new Jarl's Bounty. It's been a while since we've done one, and I've been thinking about changing up how the event works. I want to share my thoughts with the community first, so you can tell me if these ideas would make the event better or just ruin the fun.

In the past, the Jarl's Bounty has worked like this: there's a set of English words with no translations, and people who submit words for these earn extra gold. Later on, a rule was set so that you could submit a maximum of 3 words per list, so more people would have a chance to participate.

I think there are some problems with how Jarl's Bounty 1.0 worked, in relation to both community involvement and philosophy towards the language:

• The Jarl's Bounty encouraged thinking of Dovahzul as a word-for-word cypher.
  
  It limited creativity in that people could only create words with the definitions provided. People relied on the Jarl's Bounty to find out which words were "missing."
   
• Words were created on a first-come, first-serve basis.
  
  If someone already created a word you had a good idea for, you were out of luck. If you already submitted your 3 words and had ideas for more, you were also out of luck.
   
• Multiple people would submit for the same word.
  
  Related to the above, it was very common for multiple people to submit a word for the same thing. Someone would be declined simply because the other person submitted theirs first.

Going forward, I have some new thoughts on how the Jarl's Bounty can work.

When a Jarl's Bounty is posted, the words are first discussed in the thread. A period of time is set - let's say, 2 hours - dedicated to discussion only. During this time, anyone can share their word ideas or objections to current ideas bouncing around the thread.

Once a consensus is reached on a word, the Jarl will submit the word and add it to his list. After all the words have been made, everyone who participates in the thread will receive gold.

I think this will solve the problems outlined above. There is an element of personal achievement tied to the Jarl's Bounties, and I hope we can find a way to still capture that somehow.

Thoughts? Concerns? Let me know!

I can only be on once in a while, so can we possibly make it a... Day?

That's certainly a possibility.

That seems alot fairer than what i had seen in the past. That'd be cool.

That sounds like a good idea. One problem I can think of is that there's no way to state which words have been discussed. What are you to do if any certain word is left out of the discussion?

At any rate, I think that we should at least try this out to see if it works out as planned.

Similar to how past Jarl's Bounties worked, we can cross items off the list that are no longer up for discussion.

Alright, works for me.

Um, but that doesn't QUITE solve the speed of making words. Everytime I looked at The Jarl's Bounty, all words were crossed. Maybe if it would always be posted at a certain time of the day or something simmilar? 

For future Jarl's Bounties, discussion will last most of the day, so you'll have a chance to put in your two septims if you're around that day.