The cappuccino marks a post with the depth of a full article, earned automatically as you write. Depth has been this community's habit for thirty years — from the A.O.L. days to the T.M.F. days to Shrewd'm today, the posts that built it were the carefully argued ones, still quoted years later.
Article-length Awarded posts are highlighted in the Best Of list and greatly affect their chances of running in The Shrewd'm Weekly. Write the piece you would gladly read over a cappuccino.
How Article-length Awards Apply to You
The award above belongs to a post. These belong to a writer — they measure how much of everything you wrote in the
last twelve months was article-length. They appear beside your alias, they come and go on their own as your writing does, and each carries an
Article-length Score that is added to your
Honorary Rank.
10–20% of your last year's posts are Article-length
Readers of these Shrewds regularly find a piece worth sitting down with a Latte.
Score 3
20–35% of your last year's posts are Article-length
Writing at length is plainly something these Shrewds do on purpose rather than when the mood happens to take you. The stronger cappuccino is needed here.
Score 6
35–60% of your last year's posts are Article-length
More than a third of posts being Article-length — truly we are grateful to such Shrewds taking the time and care to express richer and deeper ideas. Marked with a small x2 beside it, the second shot was needed for the extra time pleasantly sitting down to enjoy.
Score 9
60–100% of your last year's posts are Article-length
Three posts in five — these rare Shrewds are almost incapable of writing a short post, and the community is entirely happy about. Spread your 3 shots over time though, and read back through some incredible writing by these top authors.
Score 12
A handful of posts in the year is needed before any of these appear, so that a single long post and nothing else does not quietly make somebody a Triple-Shot. It is a share rather than a total, so writing more does not earn it and writing less does not lose it — somebody who posts rarely and always at length stands higher here than somebody who posts constantly and occasionally at length. And because only the last twelve months count, the ladder is open to somebody who joined this year and has to be re-earned by everybody else.
