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CommentAuthorperthmetro
- CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
@ Sean, you're missing the point, and you're rationale of "you win some you lose some" is very uninformed. This is merely the same as having preferences as any normal election has, but it's by another name/method.
You say what's the point in having a vote if we can change on a whim... that's the whole point!
XSQueen has a great point in that their added themes can't be voted for... my system allows for this too - otherwise this vote is wrong already. Sean it is fair and it is the best way, I urge you everyone to agree to this otherwise the vote could be a sham like the last contest.
We need to drop the two votes and allow changes.
This is the only way everyone's vote will be equal, and the only way the vote can be fair. -
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CommentAuthoricyone
- CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
you all are crazy...lets vote on what we want and then tally...easy.
no changes, not second thoughts...done...no dragging it forever though the mud -
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CommentAuthorSean
- CommentTimeApr 24th 2008 edited by Sean on the 24th April 2008 at 20:32:55 EDT
@pete: i am not missing the point. i spoke my thoughts and that's that and i am not uninformed.
example, if we could change our votes for presidential elections, etc, a ton of people would do that... but when the day comes and we place a vote, we think about it, make our vote and hope for the best that our vote wins.
how is that thought process wrong here?
people need to think about what they want, make a vote and stick to it is my main point. if they don't have a decision made yet, then don't vote but don't wait until the last minute or your vote might not get counted.
if people have questions, ask before you place a vote. pretty simple. -
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CommentAuthorgreg
- CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
i agree with sean, a vote should be final - but that brings me back to the stupidity of people being allowed to add ideas whilst the voting is taking place. -
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CommentAuthoricyone
- CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
Posted By: Seanif people have questions, ask before you place a vote. pretty simple
yuppers
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CommentAuthorperthmetro
- CommentTimeApr 24th 2008 edited by perthmetro on the 24th April 2008 at 22:25:01 EDT
OK, fine... Then the vote needs to start again and Sean (or someone) needs to decide on what themes we can vote for after which there can be no more additional themes nominated. And since we're running this like a presidential election we can only have one vote. If we have two votes then we need to run the preferences as per a proper presidential election which is very complicated.
Over to you Sean.
Edit: Oh, and I'd love for someone to explain to me how exactly it is any less fair in allowing us to change votes during the election? If anyone has a friend in an election authority I'd love it if you could show them this thread. -
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CommentAuthorgnome
- CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
Lets make some use of the last one and ONLY put up ones which were voted for. Then we can start a tally. -
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CommentAuthorperthmetro
- CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
You've actually justified my whole point here Jason, if we do it your way we are in effect doing exactly what I want... changing our votes to make our votes worthwhile... you see it does actually make sense. -
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CommentAuthorgnome
- CommentTimeApr 24th 2008
Perth: I know. I _REALLY_ want the poll plugin back (Glitchy as anything, but still very fun).
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- CommentAuthorwfiedler
- CommentTimeApr 25th 2008
Huh, what a discussion friends! I always thought we Germans are complicated, but the rest of the world seems to be the same
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- CommentAuthorsummitr
- CommentTimeApr 25th 2008
Since I'm not a major contributor, I probably don't have much say here. However, I think a discussion (similar to this one) should be run for a time (say 2 weeks). At the end of that time a private poll (meaning you can't see the results before or after you vote) with the 3 or 4 most popular ideas should be implemented. Of course, something should be implemented to make sure a person can only vote once (logged in to vote?). Give the poll a couple weeks. It seems like a fair way to implement this to me. Anyone with me? -
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CommentAuthoraaroncampbell
- CommentTimeApr 25th 2008
Sounds relatively fair, but you are talking a lot more work for Sean before he can run a contest that WE asked him to run, since polling/voting isn't set up on the site. -
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- CommentAuthorUrgenus
- CommentTimeApr 25th 2008
Posted By: Sean@pete:
example, if we could change our votes for presidential elections, etc, a ton of people would do that... but when the day comes and we place a vote, we think about it, make our vote and hope for the best that our vote wins.
Example, in presidential elections, where any candidate won't get over 50% votes. Then there is another election between two best...
Here in od we don't have to be so stiff, and could change our votes so winner is chosen... -
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CommentAuthorarwen54
- CommentTimeApr 25th 2008
can we not put a poll up, for heavens sake..to make this way simpler?
anyway:
1. a colour theme (to be picked by Sean)
perthmetro,
kirby145,
ramblingsoul,
janpd24,
NickyD,
wfiedler,
DeanStev,
XSQueen,
greg
2. Aviation theme
3. 'No theme' theme
4. Bakie Cookie theme
JeremyD
5. Old Age Home (Charity)
6. News Paper (Not Blog)
bluecafe
kirby145
7. Mac Showroom website
8. Grocery Shop
9. Vineyard Website
10. Travel destination
Janpd24
Gnome
arwen54
11. non-blog theme
12. iPhone, mobile browser, small resolution theme
13. "OD Garden" (A CSS Zen Garden type contest that someone had mentioned in the earlier thread)
Janpd24,
conartistdesign,
NOWdesign,
aaroncampbell,
icyone,
DENiAL,
Urgenus,
yugnats,
bradm81,
JeremyD,
refueled
arwen54
14. Retro design
Gnome
15. MOOD theme (i.e. happy/sad/grunge/angry/gothic/romantic/sneaky/etc) to be picked by Sean
XSQueen
16. image-free
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- CommentAuthorNOWdesign
- CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
Just a couple of notes, who chooses the "template" for the "OD Garden", if that ended up being the winner?
Could we not have two competitions - the two most popular with the prizes split 50/50? -
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CommentAuthorcoollew
- CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
1. a colour theme (to be picked by Sean)
perthmetro,
kirby145,
ramblingsoul,
janpd24,
NickyD,
wfiedler,
DeanStev,
XSQueen,
greg
2. Aviation theme
3. 'No theme' theme
4. Bakie Cookie theme
JeremyD
5. Old Age Home (Charity)
6. News Paper (Not Blog)
bluecafe
kirby145
7. Mac Showroom website
8. Grocery Shop
9. Vineyard Website
10. Travel destination
Janpd24
Gnome
arwen54
11. non-blog theme
12. iPhone, mobile browser, small resolution theme
13. "OD Garden" (A CSS Zen Garden type contest that someone had mentioned in the earlier thread)
Janpd24,
conartistdesign,
NOWdesign,
aaroncampbell,
icyone,
DENiAL,
Urgenus,
yugnats,
bradm81,
JeremyD,
refueled
arwen54
coollew
14. Retro design
Gnome
15. MOOD theme (i.e. happy/sad/grunge/angry/gothic/romantic/sneaky/etc) to be picked by Sean
XSQueen
16. image-free
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CommentAuthorkirby145
- CommentTimeMay 2nd 2008
Can we start the contest please..
I thought of really good idea for a OD garden template, but its so good I cant tell you until contest. -
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CommentAuthorbakercad
- CommentTimeMay 2nd 2008
peteThe vote will be at least one week and a max of two weeks from the date of this first post (April 22, 2008)
Thus, look for this to begin shortly after May 6 -
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CommentAuthorSean
- CommentTimeMay 2nd 2008
Yes, just finalizing prize money, should be in hand by morning... speaking of which, be sure if you are going to be enterning this upcoming contest that you can accept your cash prize (if you are a winner) via PayPal. Payment will also be in US funds, so if you are outside the US, you are responsible for exchange rate information, etc., so when prizes are listed, they will be in US funds.
@Joe: One question, do we have the contest submission thing working again 'backstage'? If not, we need to get something in place for the upcoming contest... this thought just crossed my mind... -
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CommentAuthorlastlegion
- CommentTimeMay 3rd 2008
1. a colour theme (to be picked by Sean)
perthmetro,
kirby145,
ramblingsoul,
janpd24,
NickyD,
wfiedler,
DeanStev,
XSQueen,
greg
2. Aviation theme
3. 'No theme' theme
4. Bakie Cookie theme
JeremyD
5. Old Age Home (Charity)
6. News Paper (Not Blog)
bluecafe
kirby145
7. Mac Showroom website
8. Grocery Shop
9. Vineyard Website
10. Travel destination
Janpd24
Gnome
arwen54
11. non-blog theme
12. iPhone, mobile browser, small resolution theme
13. "OD Garden" (A CSS Zen Garden type contest that someone had mentioned in the earlier thread)
Janpd24,
conartistdesign,
NOWdesign,
aaroncampbell,
icyone,
DENiAL,
Urgenus,
yugnats,
bradm81,
JeremyD,
refueled,
arwen54,
coollew,
lastlegion
14. Retro design
Gnome
15. MOOD theme (i.e. happy/sad/grunge/angry/gothic/romantic/sneaky/etc) to be picked by Sean
XSQueen
16. image-free
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CommentAuthorkirby145
- CommentTimeMay 5th 2008
I still cant wait :D
I have looked back at all the contests that I didn't enter and realized how silly that was, I could have won some prizes! But this time I'm going to be sure to enter. I'll work on it the day it starts and not procrastinate. -
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- CommentAuthorSunRise
- CommentTimeMay 6th 2008
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- CommentAuthorconartistdesigns
- CommentTimeMay 11th 2008
will js be allowed? -
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CommentAuthorgnome
- CommentTimeMay 11th 2008
no -
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CommentAuthorbakercad
- CommentTimeMay 12th 2008
ok guys.....it's almost a week past May 6. Let get this contest going.
The winner of the vote with 14 votes:
13. "OD Garden" (A CSS Zen Garden type contest that someone had mentioned in the earlier thread) -
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CommentAuthorSean
- CommentTimeMay 12th 2008
On my comment above (May 2) I asked Joe about the contest upload link. I have not heard back from him, so we might need an alternate method for contest entries unless Joe replies or Christopher knows if the uploader for contests is working properly. We don't need contest entries not going to the right place. -
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CommentAuthorperthmetro
- CommentTimeMay 12th 2008
Sean, the worst thing can happen here is if the contest is delayed too long or god forbid doesn't happen. As far as I'm concerned (and I'm thinking most others) you should just go ahead and do what is needed without anymore consultation from the other 2 admins (if they were keen to see this contest happening i'm sure they'd be 'involved' with this discussion) to get this contest racing along. Maybe some of us here can help with resources to assist with uploading, polling etc. if you need any help - even it if it means setting it up offsite????.
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CommentAuthorSean
- CommentTimeMay 12th 2008
@perthmetro: I agree. I'll be looking into an alternate method for uploading the contest design entries. Give me a day or two and then I'll put something up for us. -
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CommentAuthoricyone
- CommentTimeMay 12th 2008
having a plan B is sooooo right....in every way
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- CommentAuthorRob
- CommentTimeMay 13th 2008
Can you explain in detail exactly what's meant by an OD Garden design? Preferably in a new topic with the rules etc :) -
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CommentAuthorSean
- CommentTimeMay 13th 2008 edited by Sean on the 13th May 2008 at 15:19:27 EDT
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