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If You Ran a Photo Contest on Flickr…
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How would you do it?
We’re planning on running one for a client, and we’re thinking of just hosting the thing in a Flickr group. Contestants will add photos to the group to enter the contest.
We were thinking that we’d enable the community to choose the finalists and then have our client pick the winner. We could select the five or ten finalists based on the number of times a photo had been ‘favourited’.
Do you see any flaws in that plan?
Here’s one. Users will have to either take new photos, or upload old ones again, because existing Flickr photos may already have accrued some favourites. Do you think that’s a problem?
Flickr does track when people favourite a photo. However, that’s a lot of manual pain on our end in counting the number of favourites during the period of the contest. And it could be confusing for other users if a photo newly added to the group has, like, 15 favourites.
Any suggestions? What have you seen that works well on Flickr? Cheers. DB.
Posted at 1:57PM, 26 July 2007 PST
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DBarefoot, You need to speak with our Business Development team about what you're planning before you proceed given that you'll run afoul of our Community Guidelines regarding commercial use. Please select "I have a business proposal that I'd like to share" and drop us a line with your proposal.
Posted 29 months ago.
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Thanks for that, Heather. Does 'commercial use' include not-for-profit projects?
Posted 29 months ago.
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"Do you see any flaws in that plan?".
Yep: "We were thinking that we’d enable the community to choose the finalists and then have our client pick the winner. We could select the five or ten finalists based on the number of times a photo had been ‘favourited’".
So, User A has several hundred contacts, and solicits each to "favourite" his entry. User B has only one or two contacts. User B's photo is markedly better than User A's, but doesn't make the cut as finalist because User A gamed the system...
Posted 29 months ago.
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Dr. Keats (love your poetry by the way): Yeah, but that's pretty much a problem in any such popularity contest. A person might have a few contacts in Flickr, but a reasonably popular blog or Facebook account or, imagine, a whole bunch of friends in real life.
I'm not sure how we could avoid this issue and still permit community input.
Posted 29 months ago.
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How about letting each contestant be anonymous to the voters each contestant submits a pic, and gives you permission to repost under a number system, that way voters can vote for the one they want by way of submitting a vote for the contestants number, still a popularity contest but, fairer than than above proposed system. Each entered pic has a better chance. You can pick lets say, the top 10 or 5 from the voters choice, let your client(s) pick the top one(s) to win.
Posted 29 months ago.
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Lady: Thanks for the suggestion. That would increase the anonymity factor a bit, but I still fear people would just locate their photo and point their networks (whether Flickr contacts, Facebook friends or whatever) at it.
Posted 29 months ago.
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That is a factor in any contest, even in a local state beauty pageant on rodeo day. There really isn't a way to avoid it, as everyone entered would indeed promote their own pic. I guess you could take off a percentage of the votes for people that are entered that have lets say over 400 to over a thousand contacts verses someone with only 10 contacts, the more contacts you have could be penalized( a voting count curve) as to make it fair to those with only less than 100 contacts. which in turn would keep the more popular contestants at bay on self promotion and limit them selfs on who they advertised their own submission to. It could be workable with someone who is good at the numbers game behind the scenes.
Posted 29 months ago.
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Perhaps you should have a nomination thread in your group? Group members can nominate one photo from the pool for the final selection process. At a given deadline select ten or twenty photographs that have ben nominated in the thread to go forward. These should be chosen based on your own criteria and do not have to be the most nominated, just nominated at least once. Your judge then chooses the winner(s) from these finalists.
This way you have the community helping to choose but it cannot turn into being just a popularity contest.
Posted 29 months ago.
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How about an algorithm!
Then again...
The idea is certainly interesting, but there are so many ways in which nitwits will try and rig it in their favour
Posted 29 months ago.
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On Thursday, July 26, I sent a query to Flickr support on the question of non-profit organizations forming pools and running photo contests. I sent a follow-up this week. I haven't heard back. How should I proceed?
Posted 29 months ago.
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Hi DBarefoot. I am trying to do a similar contest, do you have any news from Flickr?
How are you planning your contest?
I would really appreciate if you can share your thoughts on this.
Tx in advance.
Florencia
Posted 29 months ago.
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