"Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] panoramasde> schreef in bericht 
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>
> I guess Steve and Colin are already trying to work something out. Web 
> applications can be a pain to modify.
>
>
> Two thoughts:
>
> 1) either all entrants must complete their voting on all entries for the 
> points system to work, or none at all - that's where "panel judges" become 
> necessary. A partial vote obviously puts the entrant voters into 
> disadvantage.

Yes of course. My impression was (but I didn't control at that stage) when I 
voted (sept. 1st) that all(?) images had got 8 votes... But I seem to be 
wrong there.
>
> 2) Voting needs a second timeframe (deadline thru deadline + 1 week sounds 
> reasonable, i guess) so that the line-up doesn't change after voting has 
> started.

Indeed. That seems obvious. I thought this was also Steve's intention, but 
as there was a problem with the site at closing time, maybe that dropped 
out...

>
> Well, if 2) gets implemented, it shouldn't be a problem to have another 
> voting period on the last topics by simply tweaking the timeframe's 
> end-date...
>


Thomas

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