Congratulations to all the winners - I'm slightly disappointed I didn't make the top ten at least, that whole project took me 2 days (don't worry I can re-purpose it!)
I did wonder whether something so analytical rather than just individualized would be 'valued' by the judges, having looked at their profiles I had a feeling it wouldn't be, not their thing I guess. Then again, that's subjectivity.
But don't worry, I've awarded myself the prize for the most sociological video! Large Cappuccino on me later.
Something else I've found that's interesting is there's not much intra-competitor viewing and voting and commenting going on - which is maybe more disappointing than not winning!
Thanks for the upvotes on both of the vids btw (including the one that dtube messed up!) Appreciated.
I totally get what you are saying and actually the next contest will encourage more to engage with one another! That is something we as a community may lack, some users engage a lot with higher rep members but not with same rep users (i dont know if im getting the idea through).
Well, i did like your video hence the vote, but i cant decide who wins otherwise it would defeat the purpose of having judges and trying to be as fair as possible... you are right, it is subjective, that is why i try to make the jury as diverse as i can (while they ask for nothing in return).
Hopefully the next contest will be as interesting as this one and you join it again my friend :) Enjoy the well earned capuccino!
Thanks for the response - unfortunately the platform encourages us to 'network upwards' - I'm currently reading the white paper - it has a very cynical view about human nature, and the whole platforms basically designed to leverage human self-interest and enable people to profit from it... in other words while the platform does enable collaboration and communication, that IS NOT its primary purpose! Those of us who do so are somewhat discordant!
I'll look out for the next contest, I'm still on holiday, although I even now may not have the time to enter as I need to get back to maintaining my main blog over at revisesociology - it takes quite a lot of input.