Well I noticed a lot of contests on MLK go unnoticed and eventually die, mostly because no one really knew they existed in the first place. For example, while browsing through the Fan Art section, I noticed NTQL's Simba Contest for the first time as well as TG's Subcanon Character Marathon which almost no one participated in and seems to have been abandoned completely, and also mine which seems to be suffering from lack of participation >.>. Now I realize some of this inactivity may be due to the fact that not many people are willing to submit anything, but wouldn't it be nice to have some sort of bulletin up that announces all the current MLK contests? I'm not just talking about fan art contests either mind you.
I can forsee one problem with this idea: it would be annoying to constantly update all the current contests, and *cough* I don't really have a solution to it. Maybe we could have a Current Contests and Upcoming Deadlines box like they have on TLKFAA..? Or... some kind of e-mail notification? Sorry I must be sounding so lame for coming up with a problem and not having any way to fix it.