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From: St 
Subject: Re: TC-RTC Stills Competition November 2008
Date: 1 Jan 2009 18:03:11
Message: <495d4baf@news.povray.org>
"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:495c9da7$1@news.povray.org...
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> "Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message 
> news:k73pl4l6rrmd508l7f1pub1mj6hmnvdqiq@4ax.com...
>> Sack Colin (the web developer) ;)
>
>       Nah, he's valuable.  :)
>
>        I'm not sure what's happened, but I wonder if it's anything to do 
> with the extra leap second?

     Ok, it was nothing to do with that leap second, it was the test image 
that Colin uploaded on Clipka's account to check that the upload was working 
for him. He's fixed it so that it can't happen again. :)

      ~Steve~


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: TC-RTC Stills Competition November 2008
Date: 1 Jan 2009 23:25:00
Message: <web.495d96af72c9212c5510c690@news.povray.org>
Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
> If individual voter does not vote for all entries {except their own (if any)}
> then discount their votes. Should be the only rule here IM(Not So)HO.
> I don't see the need for adding the 20-20-20 now every member can vote.

Wouldn't be to fair, because then you can boost your competition standing by
simply not voting. Say for simplicity's sake that every vote would be 10-10-10,
and we had three contestants A, B and C. Both B and C vote, A doesn't (or his
vote is incomplete and therefore discounted). Makes:

A:  30 + 30 = 60   (from B and C)
B:  30      = 30   (from C)
C:  30      = 30   (from B)

Fair? Not really, I think (at least as long as the ranking is according to total
points instead of points per vote). So to discourage *not* voting, *voters* get
the advantage. Everyone can get it, by becoming active himself, instead of
relying on others to get active.

(OTOH, placing all "1-1-1" votes has quite a similar effect as not voting at
all...)


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: TC-RTC Stills Competition November 2008
Date: 2 Jan 2009 09:02:34
Message: <3j7sl4p6819hcbj4uvsqc4356ampmnv9iq@4ax.com>
On Thu,  1 Jan 2009 23:23:11 EST, "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

>Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
>> If individual voter does not vote for all entries {except their own (if any)}
>> then discount their votes. Should be the only rule here IM(Not So)HO.
>> I don't see the need for adding the 20-20-20 now every member can vote.
>
>Wouldn't be to fair, because then you can boost your competition standing by
>simply not voting. 

True, I was thinking more along the lines of I would like to see the actual
highest score. Now that I think of it I would like to see all of the scores with
comments, if any. I also don't think that it needs to be a secret vote, either.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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