From: Tom C
I did this one.
Theme: Landscape.
Most "Likes" wins.
Should anyone care to register at the (relatively new)
camera-enthusiast.com forum, then they can "Like" their favorite
image. If it happens to be mine, I thank you, but there are many
worthy images there (and not a lot of Likes on any of them so far).
My entry is the previously well-liked PESO image I took of a Kansas Gust Front:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/4722534814/in/photostream/
The gallery of contest entries is found here:
http://www.camera-enthusiast.com/forums/useralbums/fuji-x10-giveaway-submissions.7/view
(Mine is in the last row, Waaaaaay down there, as I type this).
Darren Addy
Kearney, Nebraska
I like the storm shot Darren.
Photo contest rant follows.
There seems to be no good way to run a contest. Subjectivity always
enters into the picture. However this kind of contest seems to have
more problems than the kind in which a select set of judges passes
judgement.
A big complaint from posters in this contest is that images near the
top of the list seem to acquire more votes. That's entirely logical,
those voting are not required to look at every image before voting.
Hence as interest wanes or time slips by the images lower on the list
tend to get fewer votes, regardless of their merit.
A recent monthly photo contest run by an insurance company here in
Idaho had a similar format, except that anyone that registered on the
site was eligible to vote. So it was not really a photo contest, it
was a popularity contest. Those that could encourage or ask the most
number of friends to vote would garner the most votes, regardless of
image merit. How is that remotely fair? I wrote the company regarding
the issue, and their response was that they designed it to be a
popularity contest. So much for that.
Tom C.
If I didn't lose count, there are 177 rows of 4 images, with the 178th
row having only one image at the time I counted. Page position does seem
to have a real effect on the number of views an image gets.
Darren's image is the first image on the 172nd row.
The only way to overcome the inherent page position bias would be to
randomize the images each time the page loads so that every entrant has
a chance to have their image appear near the top of the heap.
Interestingly, when I refreshed the page, the last row now had 3 images,
with the image that had been alone there now the second image in the
row. The first image in the last row had previously been the last image
in the next to last row, so something got inserted between Darren's
image & the last image.
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