VOTING - Contest # 21 "Bad Habits"

tommykjensen wrote:
I've been thinking

Karina mentioned that the current administration is a bit clumsy so how about using a different album software to host the photos.

For example this one

This gallery can be setup to handle the voting instead of the manual voting used today. It would also be possible to allow registered users to upload their own photos - disadvantage though is that the name would be visible.

If there is an interest I could setup this gallery to run on one of my domains. I am not saying I would also run the actual contest just the technical setup.

Of course the site went offline just as I am typing this ....

That would be great!

And do you know what, there is no problem of identifying your photo. As a matter of fact, in that contest I mentioned, the photo will be deleted if it has no owner name. Not only that, but commenting is HIGHLY encouraged.

I just downloaded the gallery and am testing it.

The voting system can work in 2 ways.

One where voters have x votes to rank the photos. One rank can only be applied to one photo. So this is actually a top x list. Both number of ranks and votes per user can be defined.

The other way allows any rank to be applied to 1 or more photos. This means that if a user think 2 photos a top notch then he/she can give the top vote for both.

Here is a screenshot of the first method of voting.

http://photo.klein-jensen.dk/public/galle​ry.jpg

Hi Tommy,

If you ask me, I think putting a numerical values is better than descriptive ones.

I just used the standard values. It would be no problem using 1 to 10 or any other range of numbers.

That's a great start!

Let's get other peoples' opinion. I for one is supporting your intiative.

I am sorry! Number one was jmjmotorsport and number four was tannerb, both tied for first place I am not sure how to handle the tie....which pic to display on the front, or perhaps I leave it as is and just mark them first place inside the gallery

tommykjensen wrote:
I just downloaded the gallery and am testing it.

The voting system can work in 2 ways.

One where voters have x votes to rank the photos. One rank can only be applied to one photo. So this is actually a top x list. Both number of ranks and votes per user can be defined.

The other way allows any rank to be applied to 1 or more photos. This means that if a user think 2 photos a top notch then he/she can give the top vote for both.

Here is a screenshot of the first method of voting.

http://photo.klein-jensen.dk/public/galle​ry.jpg

I cannot tell from the screen capture...but is there anything to stop someone from casting more than one vote? If not, anyone could just keep bumping up there photo ranking (not that anyone would do such a thing!).

I think it will ensure that users can't vote more than once. But if someone where to attempt to bypass it it would probably be possible. But then again thats not something we do around here is it

I think Tommy is on the right track. He/we will irone out the details as we gain more experience with the s/w.

BTW, if no comments are allowed (for the photos) then I'm out of the contest.

Yeah I tied my first Photography Contest and im only 11 years old!! Yeah this is so cool Thanks everyone for voting for my picture!!

Congrats Tanner!

Hey TannerB, you got the 1st place!!! woohoo!!!

If it is OK with your co-winner, we would love for you to choose the next topic. Think think.

go for it little guy.. pick away at the next topic.

Hey, your co-winner gave you the green light! go for it (but don't make it hard, grr ).