[Leica] Photo contest rules/policy question

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)]

Brian - As much as I like the idea of having a 
panel of experts do the judging,  I imagine 
getting the panel to fit the hard work of rating 
the photos each month into their no doubt busy 
schedules would be almost impossible.

So, I vote for the populist approach with the 
thought that anyone interested enough to submit 
two photos should be interested enough to assign 
ratings to the other photos on the site.

Dick



>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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Regards,

Dick