Revenant
29th December 2005, 07:25
I have seen that there is a bit of a discussion the way terragen contest have to be voted. So let me express publicly my idea and explain once and for all the way you may cast your votes.
MY IDEA: I don't like the way we usually vote. I do use the votes in other contests and AOM, but the 5, 3, 1 pts idea doesn't really suit to my mind.
FIRST because I don't think that one single person saying that image (or artist) is number one for him/her, counts exactly as FIVE persons saying it is number three. This way there's much more space for "friends" behaviours (I guess you know what i mean), and anyway it sounds bad to me that being recognised by five persons (at the third place) is the same that being exalted by one person (at the first place).
FURTHERMORE, when I am judging artists and images, I don't like the "rigid" idea of my first choice counting five times my third. This because most of the times there's really a HARD time to decide between images/artists, and the call is so close they should almost get five points all of the three, or something like 5,5,4, or 5,4,3 not 5,3,1.
TERRAGEN VOTING:
If you partecipate with at least one image, you get three *points* to distribute like this: 1+1+1 (three images) or 2+1 (two images) or 3 (one single image), or even 1+1 or just 2 or 1 meager point, because you can chose not to use all of the points.
This is because it is up to each one of us decide whether there is one image *really better* than the others, or two great images, or even three images one can't really decide which is better. FLEXIBILITY is my one word. This way one may decide how to distribute points according to his/her feelings.
IMPORTANT: there's *no priority* in vote casting, if you vote three images, it doesn't matter which one you mention first: they all get ONE point!!! At the end I will just COUNT the points and decide the winner.
One last thing. While I see that it is quite appreciated the fact that those who did not partecipate still have one point to cast, I have read someone suggesting that points allowed should be proportional to the number of images submitted (one image - 1 pt to cast, etc...).
Don't like it, I think that someone prefers to work a lot on an image and submits just one, while others prefer to show more ideas and dedicate less time to each one and submit 2 or 3 images. I don't think we should privilege naked numbers and the spare time one has to dedicate to the contest, but quality and goodwill.
LASTLY: I am quite sure there is NO perfect way of voting, nor IT one, neither mine, but I hope you all may understand my point of view.
MY IDEA: I don't like the way we usually vote. I do use the votes in other contests and AOM, but the 5, 3, 1 pts idea doesn't really suit to my mind.
FIRST because I don't think that one single person saying that image (or artist) is number one for him/her, counts exactly as FIVE persons saying it is number three. This way there's much more space for "friends" behaviours (I guess you know what i mean), and anyway it sounds bad to me that being recognised by five persons (at the third place) is the same that being exalted by one person (at the first place).
FURTHERMORE, when I am judging artists and images, I don't like the "rigid" idea of my first choice counting five times my third. This because most of the times there's really a HARD time to decide between images/artists, and the call is so close they should almost get five points all of the three, or something like 5,5,4, or 5,4,3 not 5,3,1.
TERRAGEN VOTING:
If you partecipate with at least one image, you get three *points* to distribute like this: 1+1+1 (three images) or 2+1 (two images) or 3 (one single image), or even 1+1 or just 2 or 1 meager point, because you can chose not to use all of the points.
This is because it is up to each one of us decide whether there is one image *really better* than the others, or two great images, or even three images one can't really decide which is better. FLEXIBILITY is my one word. This way one may decide how to distribute points according to his/her feelings.
IMPORTANT: there's *no priority* in vote casting, if you vote three images, it doesn't matter which one you mention first: they all get ONE point!!! At the end I will just COUNT the points and decide the winner.
One last thing. While I see that it is quite appreciated the fact that those who did not partecipate still have one point to cast, I have read someone suggesting that points allowed should be proportional to the number of images submitted (one image - 1 pt to cast, etc...).
Don't like it, I think that someone prefers to work a lot on an image and submits just one, while others prefer to show more ideas and dedicate less time to each one and submit 2 or 3 images. I don't think we should privilege naked numbers and the spare time one has to dedicate to the contest, but quality and goodwill.
LASTLY: I am quite sure there is NO perfect way of voting, nor IT one, neither mine, but I hope you all may understand my point of view.