Our initial impression from the above post is that it seems overly convoluted. There's a set of rules in here, where rules #1 and #2 link to four other sets of rules, and it feels unclear, which feels to us like a rule overload.

Then the actual contest is hidden inside hiders, in such a way that we actually missed it on the first time through, thinking it was the author's signature, not anything related to the post.

What exactly is the goal of the contest? to write a story featuring pride? to follow the specifications in hider #1 exactly? #2 exactly? Or is it something else?