Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Colen suggested: Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo contest rules/policy question > Go with a small number of judges, but change them with some regularity.<< Brian, I agree with B.D. on this manner of judging, less is more! Simply because judging by committee and not from experienced judges creates chaos! No offense to the LUG population, but I'd much rather have 3 judges with experince than a bunch of whatever number of inexperienced who like a photo just because they like it without being able to expertly say why the photo won! Yes there are time the simple "Well I like it is all the judge need comment." But he or she should be able to explain why they selected the photo for it's photographic attributes and why they like it and what made it work to win. I notice you're having a problem with judges? Well good sir count me in for a start and as B.D. offered ... "change the judges with regularity." This is the point where without question the plan absolutely requires the KISS principle! Too many cooks screw-up the pudding! ted > > > 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.5/426 - Release Date: 23/08/2006 > >