Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
>   I have noticed, that some people name their entry file names so that their
> image will be at the top of the viewing page. For example some filenames
> from this round: 001.jpg, 00pfboat.jpg, 13youth.jpg, 1j_canal.jpg, 2000l2.jpg,
> etc. It seems clear that at least some people deliberately name their files
> so that they get at the top of the page (of course I'm not saying _all_ the
> people at the top are doing this, but I suppose that at least a few of them).
> 
>   Wouldn't it be a good idea to build the viewing page so that the entries
> are not in alfabetical order, but in random order? This way nobody can get
> advantage by naming his/her files with leading 0's.
>   Of course this makes it harder to find your own entry, but I think that's
> a minimal disadvantage... :)

For voters with Win95(98), Bob Franke's Winvote program does exactly
that.  It presents images to the voter in a random order, different for
each voter, until the voter has voted on all images.  It them allows the
voter to view the images sorted in any of several ways.  While it is not
a general image viewing program, it is handy for IRTC fans whether they
are voters or not.  I should also point out that Nathan O'Brien (No. 13)
does not name his images thus as a position trick.  According to him,
the No. 13 that has become his trademark originated from a slurred
rendition of his initials: N O'B that looked like N O 1 3.  The Winvote
program is located at: http://www.halcyon.com/wordsltd/pov/winvote.htm.

Jerry Anning
cle### [at] dholcom

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