[Leica] Photo contest rules/policy question

[jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Brian,
That is a good idea - it will tend to neutralise and even out bias.
Cheers
Jayanand

Brian Reid 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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