Hi been reading this thread with interest. Personally i have never had any problems with the rules for submitting etc.

For what its worth my opinion is "if it aint broke, don't fix it!"

Nogbad

Why not take a picture of the frozen river? The geography is a vehicle for the ice. Just trying to get you to think a bit differently, that's all. ;)

I think the competition as it stands seems to be quite successful.Look at the number of enties that were submitted last month.I myself would be against changing the rule to exclude older photograph.I find it convenient to use
something I took sometime ago with the view "that might be useful for a future competition topic".
Horace

My thoughts exactly, after all we are not playing for the Crown Jewells.

Ian

Aren't we. Oh!

and i thought it was only a bit of fun :confused:

Thanks Birdsnapper for the compliment about my "blue" entry. I didn't get any votes for this entry, but thoroughly enjoyed the experience of taking the photo, and learning new techniques.

I thought the idea of the comp was to have fun, or have I just missed the point completely??

Debbi

No doubt, the competition should be fun. But the fairer the voting system is, the more fun it is going to be. And in the end it should be about the best picture, not about the nicest lad or lassie.

I agree 100%

I am sorry if anybodies ego got bruised. My intention was purely to add support to those who would like to see some fine tuning to the system.

Stephen has done a splendid job in trying to promote the competition and at times it must of felt like he was flogging a dead horse.

We all have to remember that good communication is a two way process. Although in the past such suggestions may of been debated by admin from our side of the fence they appear to have fallen on infertile ground.

I am a member of a software development team. Among my many tasks of testing, bug finding and reporting, supporting engineers and project investigations I also have to act as a portal between the programmers and the real world. Over the years I have become a good judge on what software changes are achievable. But one fact of life is unless you ASK you stand next to no chance of getting what you want. The programmers response will be one of the following. YES OK the change is trivial or that change is non-trivial and needs Thinking about. On the otherhand it maybe NO because it will effectively wreck the code and we would have to re-start from sqaure one again. Which could be 10 years of work down the toilet.

A classic case is that it is easier to design an aeroplane to take 4 engines and only fit 2 than design it with 2 and come along later and ask for 4 engines.

A possible non-software option to achieving anonimity would be for entrants to e-mail their entry (together with title and any desired technical details or comments) to the Competition mod who could then upload them to the competition gallery using a unique login kept for the purpose.

Bit more work of course and I appreciate the burden that would impose but just a thought.