[Leica] Photo contest rules/policy question

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

Go with a small number of judges, but change them with some regularity.


On 8/24/06 3:04 PM, "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:

> Last week I announced the upcoming LUG Monthly Photo Contest, and then that
> very evening (before my daily backups had run) the server computer melted
> down. So I've had to rebuild the contest on the refurbished hardware.
> 
> In doing so, I got to wondering if perhaps it would be good to change the
> mechanism, and I wanted to hear what people had to say about this change.
> 
> I've only found three people willing to serve as judges, and that isn't
> enough. So I've been thinking about a more populist approach.
> 
> Suppose that I adjusted the software so that nobody could see the ratings
> assigned to a photograph except me, and that a large number of people were
> given a set of ratings buttons to click on. If we get 200 people 
> registering
> on the contest site (hoping someday to submit a contest entry) then perhaps
> anybody who had submitted more than 2 pictures could be given "judge" 
> powers
> (i.e. given a set of ratings buttons to click on). Or maybe all of you 
> could
> tell me who should be the judges, and then
> I'd simply put the ratings buttons on their accounts, without going through
> the formal process of asking people if they want to be a judge.
> 
> I trust that any LUG member will be gracious enough not to rate his or her 
> own
> photographs, and, besides, if that happens I can tell and do something 
> about
> it.
> 
> If we did this, then I'd imagine that there would be between 50 and 100
> judges, and they would assign a rating to any picture that they thought 
> needed
> to be rated (good or bad). At the end of the month I would declare the 
> winners
> to be the photographs that got the highest numeric rating score.
> 
> A scheme like this makes the contest more populist and less professional, 
> but
> my goal here is to get people to enter pictures, not to displace the 
> Deutsche
> B?rse prize.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Brian Reid
> LUG Saloon Keeper
> 
> 
> 
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