Number of Votes in Photo Competitions

[Pete Eeles]

Given the sheer number of amazing photos this month, I'm wondering if we should move from people voting for their "top 3" to their (say) "top 5". That should mean that the voting is more-representative and that all of the deserving shots get voted for.

Cheers,

- Pete

P.S. Not that I'm miffed about getting zero votes last month

[Charles Nicol]

would it be possible to allocate 2 votes for 1 picture or all 3 votes for a really good picture ?

charles

[Pete Eeles]

Unfortunately not. We're currently using the forum's poll mechanism to give votes. I know that a better mechanism would be to vote for the top 3 (or whatever) and then apply a weighting based on whether a photo received 1st, 2nd or 3rd vote. Unfortunately, that would take some time to implement. It's on the list of things to do!

Cheers,

- Pete

[Hamearis]

Everyone should have to use one vote on their own piccie.
That should even it up a bit!
Ham

[Gruditch]

Say good night Ham
I know we all like to get votes, but they should be earned not given away, it is a competition after all. if there is no way of setting a poll for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, then it should be just one vote for your winner.

Gruditch

[Susie]

I wouldn't vote for me.

[Ian Pratt]

3 votes seems fine. There are some outstanding photos which receive no votes for whatever reason and that will always be the case.

[eccles]

Three votes is fine by me as well, although last month I had a short list of five, one of which was yours, Pete, which unfortunately got dropped as I pared it down to three.

[Pete Eeles]

Sounds like the obvious think to do is leave things as they are for now!

Cheers,

- Pete

[eccles]

One thing that might be interesting is that our three votes could be applied to less than three candidates. In other words if there is a single outstanding entry we would be able to award two or even all three votes to that one.

[Pete Eeles]

Unfortunately, the mechanism doesn't allow that

Cheers,

- Pete

[eccles]

I've just noticed that Charles Nicol suggested the same thing. Sorry for the repetiton.