Sounds like a good way to start an argument to me. The winner would be 
whoever 's work appealed to the most persuasive writers...

Voting isn't perfect, but at least it avoids judges unfairly biasing 
one-another.

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Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com

"Paul Bourke" <pau### [at] uwaeduau> wrote in message 
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> For those who have already contributed to the 2006 Short Code Competition
> and to those who plan to contribute ..... I had planned for the entrants 
> to
> simply send in their votes, I tabulate them and announce the winners, I
> can obviously still do this.
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> However I was wondering if there were some other more interesting ways of
> handling the voting. How about a private newsgroup on this server where 
> the
> entrants (who were the only ones with initial access) discussed the 
> entries
> and tried to come to some concensus. This assumes someone who has 
> managment
> control of the povray news server is prepared to set this up for us.
> Do you think this would work? Result in chaos, fights, bullying, ... or
> might be a nice transparent / fun way of deciding on the rankings.
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