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Re: Winner
Good suggestions. Mike, can you ping me via email on how much that would cost? I guess I was a bit naive on this whole thing. I figured people would just vote for the captions that made them laugh the most. Hopefully we can still do the contests next year. Thanks again.
elizabethv
12/20/2016 9:13:52 AM
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Re: Winner
Yeah, I would agree to some kind of requirement for voting purposes. It just seems to make sense that if you aren't really actively involved in the community (yet) swaying a decision on it seems a little out of the ordinary. Though it would be nice to get more people voting too. What about a similar requirement that if you put in an entry you also have to vote?
mhhf1ve
12/19/2016 5:46:44 PM
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Re: Winner
BTW, does this mean there will be more caption contests for 2017? Looking forward to some more thought-provoking cartoons!
(and I'll volunteer to set up an mturk judging HIT, if we going to do a bunch more of these...)
mhhf1ve
12/19/2016 4:37:19 PM
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Re: Winner
I've run a few online contest/challenge projects before, and I'd say for simplicity -- farm out the judging to Mechanical Turk for a few bucks. It's not exactly a perfect system, but it works fairly well if you're going to need to regularly judge things that only humans can interpret. The wisdom of a (mechanical turk) crowd seems to be decent, and since mturkers are generally anonymous, the results are usually pretty fair/honest unless you have some bias in the way you design your mturk HIT.
cheers! (and congrats to faryl!)
Re: Winner
@Mike: I can roll with that or something similar to that -- particularly considering the final votes came from accounts created on the final voting day.
Perhaps a compromise to avoid turning off newcomers (and lurkers, for that matter) and still welcome them would be to instead have a cutoff period as to how old your account is. To be eligible for voting, your account must be, say, two or three months old.
But then you still have the other problems inherent to voting in an online community.
I think it's better to have no community voting, period. In addition to the problems of making sure enough people vote (against their interests, at that) among a finite collection of users, we've seen tit-for-tat voting, and we've also seen ill feelings harbored over votes. I've seen even worse with similar contests at other, unrelated websites where user voting is a factor.
I'd rather see a panel of judges, accordingly.
Obviously, that then makes *your* job harder, insofar as then you have to help judge the entries (unless you farm it out, of course). But it also strikes me as helping to avoid the problems of voting.
If voting is a non-negotiable, then I think the best compromise solution is to go back to having a judge or judges nominate a shortlist of, say, 5-8 captions -- which people can then vote on.
Some thoughts. My two cents. Take them with as many grains of salt as you need to swallow.
Winner
The winner for the last caption contest of the year, and a $200 Amazon Gift Card is faryl for: "I'd like to be the top hat please; who wants the sports car? The thimble?"
Thanks to everyone that posted captions this year and for voting. Going forward, maybe we should limit the voting to people who have 30 or more posts? I hate to exclude newcomers, but we do have some people that only seem to post when we have voting in these contests. Thoughts?
Caption contest Vote
I vote for Faryl 3
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I vote for Faryl 3
Pheritt
12/17/2016 1:51:22 PM
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Faryl 3
I vote for Faryl 3.
Pheritt
12/17/2016 1:48:51 PM
User Rank Steel
Re: Faryl 3
Faryl 3 - great!! Top hat, it is!
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