You should do it American Idol style. Don't let anyone vote until all contestants have had a chance to sing. Martijn, start practicing your singing for next year! :)
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Joe Lambe <[email protected]> wrote: > > @Martijn - I work at Atlassian and was one of the organizers of the > campaign. Thanks for your *awesome* entry and I appreciate your critiques > below. :) > > We did think about the problem of the community vote favoring the early > entries. Our rationale for having submissions and entries end at the same > time included a couple factors: > > * Timing: Due to internal timing constraints we knew the 4 week contest was > going to bump up against Thanksgiving, where a lot of US-based participants > would be out of town. > * Inevitability: Even a week or two extra could be too little to overcome an > early leader. So, like any community vote (e.g. > http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/ Moot's gaming > of the Time Poll ), it's often an imperfect balance. > * Non-voting categories: We made the community prize the least significant > and included two other judge-ranked categories to incentivize entrants and > reduce the impact of community voting / timing. > * Simplicity: We felt that entrants would most excited about sharing their > entry when they submitted it, and for those not interested in a vote rush, > it could've dragged out the campaign. > > As for how it ended up - the winner of the community award Walle-D entered > the contest about halfway through and upset early favorite Willow Creek (who > had a two week head-start). So the simultaneous deadline didn't end up being > a impossible barrier. > > That all said, we're listening to everyone's feedback and promise to do a > better job next time. Feel free to hit me up @ jlambe at atlassian dot com > with any other thoughts. > > P.S. It doesn't look like you filled out the > https://atlassian.wufoo.com/forms/the-ultimate-wallboard-tshirt/ Ultimate > Wallboard t-shirt form - I'd be willing to let you enter late if you want a > shirt - but you'll have to hustle and get it in today! > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Announcing-the-Topicus-Dashboard-tp3058300p3092976.html > Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
