G'day
This is somewhat allied with the current post: Noncontributing members ( 18,092 ) http://lumberjocks.com/topics/34832 but more specific in terms of its question.
In the recent "Your Inner Child" contest there were a grand total of 98 votes cast.
Now in a purported membership of 38,000, reduced to 20, 000 by rmoore and then down to 2800 fairly active members by WudnHevn's estimate, I am still perplexed. One out of 28?
Hell, the entrants almost equaled the votes!
I'm perplexed as well because we vote thousands of time a day as it is. We click on interesting projects, we vote again by leaving a comment, favoriting it even; then go on to watch the post, send a note to the poster, be their buddy and be buddies back - votes in every single way. So with $500 and bragging rights at stake, no small cheese it would seem to me - wondrously, no one bothered.
$500 is nice walkin around money to anybody and even if you weren't entered you all still gotta have your favourites.
I'm not disappointed in my own result#, the best man certainly won, so much as wondering about the few people down at the bottom of the list, those with a discouraging 1 or 2 or no votes whatsoever. With worthy entries, they deserve a little more positive feedback than that for their effort. That is mostly why we come here and stay here imo.
Now take real participation in a contest and imagine the 70th place guy that now sees 10 or 20 people vote him in 2nd place. Still the same position on the list but what a difference.
There has been disappointing participation in the last 2 or 3 contests and perhaps others may notice this pattern come time for the next one, and pause and think; "Will my entry be good enough that I'm not embarrassed?"
So why is this so and how can it get better? There was certainly no lack of serious entries.
gene
#(sure, I would have loved to win but was really hoping for a random T-Shirt, real good odds they were)
and well, why not; a big shout out to my sole first place voter
This is somewhat allied with the current post: Noncontributing members ( 18,092 ) http://lumberjocks.com/topics/34832 but more specific in terms of its question.
In the recent "Your Inner Child" contest there were a grand total of 98 votes cast.
Now in a purported membership of 38,000, reduced to 20, 000 by rmoore and then down to 2800 fairly active members by WudnHevn's estimate, I am still perplexed. One out of 28?
Hell, the entrants almost equaled the votes!
I'm perplexed as well because we vote thousands of time a day as it is. We click on interesting projects, we vote again by leaving a comment, favoriting it even; then go on to watch the post, send a note to the poster, be their buddy and be buddies back - votes in every single way. So with $500 and bragging rights at stake, no small cheese it would seem to me - wondrously, no one bothered.
$500 is nice walkin around money to anybody and even if you weren't entered you all still gotta have your favourites.
I'm not disappointed in my own result#, the best man certainly won, so much as wondering about the few people down at the bottom of the list, those with a discouraging 1 or 2 or no votes whatsoever. With worthy entries, they deserve a little more positive feedback than that for their effort. That is mostly why we come here and stay here imo.
Now take real participation in a contest and imagine the 70th place guy that now sees 10 or 20 people vote him in 2nd place. Still the same position on the list but what a difference.
There has been disappointing participation in the last 2 or 3 contests and perhaps others may notice this pattern come time for the next one, and pause and think; "Will my entry be good enough that I'm not embarrassed?"
So why is this so and how can it get better? There was certainly no lack of serious entries.
gene
#(sure, I would have loved to win but was really hoping for a random T-Shirt, real good odds they were)
and well, why not; a big shout out to my sole first place voter