Strange happenings on the contest voting

I’d support those voting rule changes.

-- www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com

I’ll add my support – “Sunshine is a great antiseptic” -

-- Mike, Maryland, www.thewoodenquill.com

Thanks for pointing to this, Dave. I like your suggested idea and will initiate discussion about this once this contest is over.

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

A big “Ditto!” from me, to all the above.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

ok.. so after careful consideration I decided to moderate some ratings. I removed all ratings submitted by 2 recently registered jocks (I don’t want to disclose names here because the voting is anonymous but none of them belongs to the active jocks).

These jocks rated one of the projects with 10 stars (not the same project) and that’s ok. But then they dropped down some other projects by rating them with 1 star and all these ratings were submitted very quickly after the registration. I’m sure you’ll agree that this is very suspicious and I think it deserved moderation.

Now I’m sure that we will have no more LJ contests with anonymous voting system…

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

I concur in the rating adjustments and in some revisions to the voting in the future.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I like that the rating system allowed us more attempts at an overall winner, perhaps more fairly than just voting on our favorite, but adding some transparency would definatley be a good thing. At the newspaper, we’ll see lots of “ballot box stuffing” in our local contests, and have no qualms about disqualifying such obvious attempts.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

It might be a good idea if all projects were presented at the same time so all would be voted on at the same time. More like a woodworking show.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Hey Dennis,
That sounds like a good idea. they could be shown when entered, but no voting until a closing date. Just like election day. You can study the entries, & then decide which to vote for. That way no one will know who’s in the lead until after the election.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Yes.. very good idea – it’s definitely worth considering. Thanks for sharing, Dennis.

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

How unfortunate that someone would feel the need to “fix” such a contest. I am glad someone caught on.

-- Duane Kohles

I showed up too late to see the show and to vote on the projects, so is there a blog I can go to to see the final projects?

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