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No voting until all entries have been received.
We already have this option.
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Additionally, I have an issue with the small size of the thumbnail images. They are really too small to properly indicate which images are worth a closer look.
That's true. But I'm not sure what would be the appropriate size. If I make the thumbnails bigger, then people on slow connections would have to wait forever to load, say, 200 images just to see what's in the contest.
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I don't have the math reference off hand, but I remember reading that a better way to have an election was to give each voter a certain number of votes, say 10, and let them use them however they wanted. One picture could get all 10, two almost equal favorites could get a 6 and a 4, or 10 pictures could get one each.
That's the kind of stuff I'm aiming for. A way to split the voting power among multiple pictures. We need something that's not complicated, not boring, and at the same time mathematically fair. Ideally, without having to resort to arbitrary limits (like top 5 or only 5 votes, etc.) as any such arbitrary limit would be flawed.
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Sounds good, top five have a vote off at the end.
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This seems to make the most sense. Raw score gets you to the finals. Once the top five have been selected for the run off the 1-5 makes mathematical sense as long as each person has to rank all five photos.
I think multi-stage voting would be too complicated to manage.
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Maybe allow everyone one vote but no tally till end of contest.
We already have the means to implement something like that with the current system. But it's not working out because of the specific circumstances of UHH contests.
Normally, the ratio of voters to contestants/candidates/etc. is very high.
Imagine some small town mayor elections. There might be 2 or 3 candidates with 20,000 voters. So one vote per voter works out really well.
But on UHH, we have something like 300-400 people who are ready to vote, with 150 of them submitting their own pictures. And even if I bump up the internal marketing of the contests to make sure every single UHH user is aware of an ongoing contest, the overall numbers would increase, but the ratio would probably stay the same.
So rather than having a ratio of 20,000:3, we have it as 400:150 (or 8:3).
That's why one vote per user isn't working out well. And five votes per user won't improve the contest system either.
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I personally think it would be better to have a scoring system, but it becomes problematic when we want all members to score 150 photos.
Yes, the scoring system would be the best and the most fair way to rate entries. But I agree, it's simply unrealistic to expect a user to go over all images in the contest. Additionally, having to keep track of which picture you think should be 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and which one should be ...57th would drive people crazy. So that's out.