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| Quote (dafrca @ 17 2003 July,15:13) | This might sound good amoung those here who "started" this thing. However, once we toss open the door to the "public" and ask/invite anyone who wants to join to send in pictures we have made our "goals" less important in the overall effect.
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By this I mean, if Mike the Painter (a fictional person) hears of this comp and thinks he would love to win all the prizes, he enters many items in each catagory. As someone who has painted for years and is a top class painter he will rise to the top of each catagory. However, he has not declared himself a "vetern" painter.
Yes the idea was to get lots of pictures, but along with this idea we were thinking this would be more then a one year deal, right? As such do we want to have people, not from this board, join it every year? Do we want to see it grow?
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Once we introduced prizes into the picture we increased the chance of attracting people who are not as mature/honest as those who are on this board. There are going to be people who join this comp *only* to win and could not care less about our desire to create a major picture gallery of painted minis.
I will follow the group on this, but I felt the need to voice this opinion.
dafrca |
An interesting post.
Firstly, yes I would very much like this competition to become an annual affair - hence the use of the date in the title and email addresses.
The primary goal of this competition, for my mind, is to showcase a load of pictures and minis from as many people as we can, and invite discussion. One thing that I mentioned to Jervis is that the fourth edition has forced a lot of attention on the rules, and the minis (being unavailable in the UK) have been largely ignored.
Yes, by offering prizes we focus the thoughts of the people on winning, but the flip side of this is that we will get more people entering. If 'Mike the Painter' enters because he wants to win, and would not have entered otherwise, is this necessarily a bad thing?
Our goals are the reason for running the competition. If people have different reasons then we will simply have to make sure that we are aware that this could happen, and plan for it.
In addition, by the current rules (and by that I mean including the suggestion above of asking people to select their 'order of preference' for categories of winning), the scenario of Mike who enters all categories to win all prizes wont work, as he can only win a single category. Sure, we could get lots of people who do this, but that is the point of the competition.
I would like this to be as open as possible. I dont want it to be just a select 'elite' group of people entering. If Epic Magazine was running right now, I would try to get it mentioned there for those who dont spend much time online. The requirement of being a member of these boards is simply there to increase awareness of the forums. Anyone can join these boards and so this is not really a restriction.
Thanks for your opinions, and I hope that this explains my views. As it stands, I think that most of the bases are covered on this. If anyone sees something that I have missed, please do let me know. I want this to be fairly watertight - as I want it to be seen as fair and honest, for the same reason that we mentioned above, it wont just be the fine and good people of this community which enter._________________ https://www.cybershadow.ninja - A brief look into my twisted world, including wargames and beyond. https://www.net-armageddon.org - The official NetEA (Epic Armageddon) site and resource.
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