GFSA Competitions. The composing/voting cycle

Bob-Dubery · 2010-08-11T13:36:32+00:00

Currently we have a week to prepare and post an entry for a GFSA competition, and then a week is allowed for voting. IMO this is not a good division - though there may be overriding practical considerations that force the current cycle. Would it not be preferable to maintain a total two week cycle per competition but to have 10 days for preparing the entry and 4 days for voting?

Bob-Dubery

Riaan C wrote
Renesongs wrote One of the problems with shortening the voting period is that some folks only have access to GFSA at home and some only at work so you need to include the weekend and at least two work days a 10 /4 cycle could work if challenge is set on Monday noon deadline is Wednesday week evening. Voting starts Thursday morning and ends Sunday evening
Valid point. Your suggestion seems the best compromise IMHO.

We've come full circle it seems. The 10/4 split I was I initially suggested.

Renesongs

I'm not sure how we proceed in implementing the 10/4 rule change do I have to to put this to a vote (yes all 20 of you that bother to vote) do I get Alan Norio and the Popes Blessing or do I use my moderator (benevolent dictator) powers and just do what I think is best. Suggestions anyone?

Bob-Dubery

I think it should not change immediately. This competition started off with one week for entries to be recorded and posted, and we should stick to that. Any change should be effective from a subsequent competition.

The various moderators on the competitions board need to have their say if they have strong feelings about this. I only have to get my entry ready, and would have more time. Rene has to collate all the entries, post them to GFSA, set up the poll and so on. That might be a big pain during the week, it may not. Only the moderators can offer us that perspective.

Wizard

Renesongs wrote I'm not sure how we proceed in implementing the 10/4 rule change do I have to to put this to a vote (yes all 20 of you that bother to vote) do I get Alan Norio and the Popes Blessing or do I use my moderator (benevolent dictator) powers and just do what I think is best. Suggestions anyone?

I'd suggest you use your benevolent dictator powers and change it for the next competition ...

Sean

Renesongs wrote I'm not sure how we proceed in implementing the 10/4 rule change do I have to to put this to a vote (yes all 20 of you that bother to vote) do I get Alan Norio and the Popes Blessing or do I use my moderator (benevolent dictator) powers and just do what I think is best. Suggestions anyone?

You'd make a terrible dictator ?

Renesongs

You'd make a terrible dictator Smiley

Yeah I know. I spent too much of youth amongst the lentil and tofu eating lefties so I haven't got a so called "mandate" from the "people" at a grass root level, to, as it were, "unilaterally" form a subcommittee to "facilitate "a decision on a course of action that would "resolve" the internal dispute of whether or not I have a "native" right to be a "dictator" or "dictatron" to be, more gender aware, or not.

Bob-Dubery

I think this is a good time for a vote of thanks to the competition board moderators and especially Rene for facilitating the competitions.

Thanks guys.

Renesongs

No need to thank me Bob I do it for the money I tell you. OK I've PMed the Gods and got the nod of approval, so after this cycle of voting is over I'm going to implement the 10 /4 schedules. Thank you guys for the participation and good suggestions. I sure that this will draw more entries into the competition.

Renesongs

The next thing I would like to think about is a different way to choose the topic. The problems at the moment are that once in a while someone comes up with a topic that is not going to inspire many people to enter and it then gets kind of awkward when no one enters. Another problem is that the person elected to choose the topic may be offline for a couple of days then we have find someone else to choose the topic and the whole cycle get's delayed. I have also found that some of our champions don't want to choose the next topic and it it seems to be more a burden than a reward.

An idea, I think I hatched from Don's post, is to have another poll that people submit topics to and everybody gets to vote for say 2 or 3 of the topics. The highest rated topic gets used in the next competition and removed from the poll. Or am I getting ahead of myself now?

Wizard

Renesongs wrote An idea, I think I hatched from Don's post, is to have another poll that people submit topics to and everybody gets to vote for say 2 or 3 of the topics. The highest rated topic gets used in the next competition and removed from the poll. Or am I getting ahead of myself now?

A great idea

Bob-Dubery

Renesongs wrote An idea, I think I hatched from Don's post, is to have another poll that people submit topics to and everybody gets to vote for say 2 or 3 of the topics. The highest rated topic gets used in the next competition and removed from the poll. Or am I getting ahead of myself now?

I'm not sure about that, but then I wasn't aware of the other issues that you mention that result in winners either not wanting to nominate or not being able to. The point about unpopular challenges is a valid one. I came up with what I thought was an interesting challenge a while back and there were two takers.

However I see a danger of the reverse situation manifesting - that the most popular style or theme will get elected repeatedly and then the variety aspect disappears and the challenges will all become "bluegrass chicken picking" or whatever else excites a majority.

The trick is to balance popularity with variety.

I would add that a while back I got concerned that turn outs for the competition were dropping, but I started going back through the competitions posted on this board and with the horrible exception I refer to above, I don't believe that average participation is dropping - or increasing for that matter. The names change, but that's to be expected.

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