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Submitted by zeedaam on Sat, 2006/06/10 - 2:17am.

I have a news item about contest and prizes for a couple of weeks and no one even questions it? hmmmm. Oh, and some one could have told me I had the wrong date on it LOL. Oh well, just to let you know that the contest has started now. Check the home page. Prizes for this contest will be announced on June 16th next friday. I wanted to have the prizes "in hand" before saying for sure.
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Good luck everyone!

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mac16's picture
Submitted by mac16 on Sat, 2006/06/10 - 6:02pm.

Woo Hoo!!! Competition!!!! I'm in!

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Submitted by LosdaBear on Sun, 2006/06/11 - 1:43am.

So basically whoever has the most time to spend on the site wins... LOL Good luck whomever you are.

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Submitted by Timelode on Sun, 2006/06/11 - 1:57am.

Ohh ooh!

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Submitted by RebeccaBridges on Sun, 2006/06/11 - 2:11pm.

So then what are the prizes?? If I need a claim form for taxes - then they must be good!! LOL! This is really cool!

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Submitted by jimt on Sun, 2006/06/11 - 2:38pm.

great idea, but i hate to think that you are having to award prizes out of your own pocket..you are going to have to advertise..i have prints to offer you as rewards if you need...also a small telescope..

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Submitted by carlomuscat on Sun, 2006/06/11 - 6:16pm.

WOOHOO! Great idea! :-)

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Submitted by RebeccaBridges on Sun, 2006/06/11 - 6:24pm.

Ok - I missed that part - SOooooooooooooo would there happen to be a Canon 20D or 30D body involved anywhere's???? :)

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Submitted by mac16 on Sun, 2006/06/11 - 7:13pm.

I don't think it's about who can spend the most amount of time on the site. It's about getting people to participate. It's about encouraging comments & critiques & uploading of images.

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Submitted by KevD on Sun, 2006/06/11 - 8:36pm.

Great news about the prizes :)

It seems to be working already looking at all the new images and comments going on already.

Good news for the site

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Submitted by zeedaam on Sun, 2006/06/11 - 11:23pm.

Thanks everyone, like most of you have determined already, I'm trying to build some site traffic. My advertising dollar wasn't doing to well, I think because the site was getting a little slow. People show up and don't hang around.


So I decided to spend my money differently. It's a good way to reward all of those who have been, and are currently participating in the community. My hopes are that people will comment on some of the older images too. People usually get emails that they have a comment on their image and they'll visit the site to view it, and maybe they'll comment some too.


Also, there aren't any big prizes like a Cannon D20 or anything like that yet. But when the site gets bigger, the prizes will grow with them. I'd like to hold other contests, but not all the same. Variety is nice.


FYI, the points awarded currently are (2-image) (2-comment) (1-vote).

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Submitted by zeedaam on Sat, 2006/06/17 - 5:46am.

Ok, prizes are listed on the contest page now. Thanks for the idea for offering prints Jim. And thanks for offering yours too. That may be a good idea for upcoming contests. As for this contest's prizes, you know that the purpose of this contest was to drum up participation and the prizes are all 'approximately' the same value. I'm very happy about the increased traffic on the site, I see more contests in the future. And of course as we get bigger, the prizes get bigger.

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Submitted by RebeccaBridges on Fri, 2006/06/23 - 10:18pm.

So how's about a contest just for fun, maybe not even a contest, but say we pick a theme or subject, and we just all submit a piece of artwork for it? I think it would be really neat to see different mediums used for the same subject. ?? Just a thought....

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Submitted by sysop912 on Fri, 2006/06/23 - 10:48pm.

Could be, but photographers might not find illustrators works as worthy of the vote as their fellow photographers. Likewise with those illustrators who have toiled with creating all their work from scratch, they in turn, may vote accordingly lower on the photography, which is capturing, no matter how skillfully, subjects that are already in existence, or "Just There". :)
Now the Photo-Manipulators would just end up flipping the already rocking boat, with the knowledge that they alone rule the day, as anyone can merely point a camera or doodle in vector.
Who would judge? Who would Vote?
Peer judging works better when there are no material prizes involved, I think.
Anonymous peer judging often results in voting misconduct as SOME only see the PRIZE and instead of voting for an image, end up voting against an image to better their own final position.
Out to lunch? Maybe I am, or maybe I've seen too much?
Just some things to consider.
A Just for Fun Contest? I think that would be great! pixeladdiction.com would be a great place to use as a model for such a contest. :)
Brian -

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