Hi my friend, thanks for taking the time to explain.
I expressed my doubts because when I do creative work I spent time and put my passion in it (it took me 4 hours to do the moon celery gif, just to make you understand how long it might take). A good illustration can take until 5-6 hours. It is not like 15 minutes post content.
However, this is your contest, so I respect your decision, to do 7 rounds in the first week and as much as you like afterwards.
At the moment, I am just very discouraged because I see judges already voting even before I do my entry.
What is the point for me to submit entries for round 1 and 3 if I start disadvantaged?
I know you are a kind soul, but I think judges should only vote after all the entries have been submitted after 7 days, because again if you want quality entries and not 15 minutes post content, it takes time and I don't want to rush to post as soon as possible, if I want to post a good entry.
What do you think? Is there such a rule among judges to vote only after all the entries have been done?
You're welcome. I value you as a friend and as a player in this world.
That's both cool and I see your point in regards to how much time you spent, however.. I'm not really sure what to say there. I would HOPE that the people who spend more time on their entries get rewarded for it more than the quickies. Or just the best content in general regardless of how much time was spent.
Yet.. This is a difficult contest as I mentioned, you sorta need to decide how much time and effort you wanna spendon any given challenge. Some may be more suited to you than others, some you might wanna skip totally.. And some you might wanna spend 4 hours on! PS I was already thinking about voting for that one but knowing you spent so much time on it makes me even more likely to. However I still can't promise, I want to try to be fair and see as many entries as possible before I vote.
And.. I apologize for I think you're referring to harj?
I saw one vote by a judge and I told him numerous times I think it's better to wait until the end to see all the entries, but that's his choice.
I could ask the community or the judges or both if they think we should change it so that judges don't vote until the end.
Do you think they should not be allowed to vote sooner?
I agree with you by the way that the judges should wait and I am pretty sure I told all of them this.. So.. I guess if you think it's important enough, we can make an issue out of it and I can bring the subject up to those involved. I'm happy to try to work with you and others to make this better. :)
Yes, I am exactly referring to it. Now I am preparing a song for the round 1: a song means, preparing the lyric, the chords, practice and make a video out of it. It is time demanding. I don't want to dowload a photo of someone and share it just do to an entry. If for you the information finding championship is an exchange of information is another story.
I value my "comedy" (I don't even call it art) and I think that if you want to award originality and creativity, you should give the time to everybody to submit their entry within 7 days and then the judges will upvote based on the general level.
I don't want to make any issue, you guys decide.
A song, wow. That's awesome. Okay.. Umm.. What if a judge is going to be busy later in the week and can only vote earlier? Do you really think judges shouldn't be allowed to vote earlier?
If you still do after what I just said above, then I will make changes. In the end it is my competition and I can change the rules.
Lemme know what you think based on the argument that judges may need to vote early because they are too busy to vote later?
I'm a lil confused what you mean in regards to this part.
I'm not sure what you mean here! But I think some challenges are quicker and easier than others as well, like the one about picking a future contest, that shouldn't take someone more than like 5 to 10 or 20 minutes to think of something and they could do it while riding the bus to work or whatever.. I'm gonna do a funny selfie contest, that takes like a minute to take a funny picture of yourself.. I mean..Some of these are really quick and easy, I think it sorta depends on how deep you wanna go with it.
BY THE WAY... Since you like comedy so much, I'm going to give you a lil hint. A headstart, the next challenge is going to be about comedy. :) So.. I definitely hope you'll stick around for that one, but I understand if you're too busy!
PS I was just thinking..
Maybe we could make it so that the judges have to vote at the very end UNLESS they are too busy, and if they like have a family meeting or whatever and can't do it, then they can vote early. How does that sound? Is that a fair compromise?
YES! FAIR!
ANd I am completely out of tune at singing, it is awful auhauhaua
Great! :) Glad we got that resolved. And I agree the more I think about it.. The judges should wait till the end, BUT.. If they for some reason won't be available at the end, then they can vote early.
Alrighty.. I'll try to get that message through to the judges in the next day or two.
Cheers friend! :) Talk to you later and hope you're having a good day or night or whatever time it is where you are!