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by **deeknow** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:16 pm

BUMP!!!

Hey Doug, seeing as there are multiple prizes why dont you make the poll a "select multiple options" sort of poll?
It may be too late I guess if voting has already started, but I think we should consider this for next months comp

by **Adamski** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:41 pm

deeknow wrote:
QUOTE (deeknow @ Jul 1 2011,6:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
BUMP!!!

Hey Doug, seeing as there are multiple prizes why dont you make the poll a "select multiple options" sort of poll?
It may be too late I guess if voting has already started, but I think we should consider this for next months comp

I'm not sure whether the (in-built) voting functions allow anything too fancy

However - you could always split it ... take (say) the top 6 from round one then revote on those for round 2 ...

by **Esquire** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:02 pm

Crikey this ain't gonna be easy ... too many good screens to choose from, but some definite favourites. Good luck everyone ...

Cheers Esq.

by **dbcunnz** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:19 pm

deeknow wrote:
QUOTE (deeknow @ Jul 1 2011,6:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
BUMP!!!

Hey Doug, seeing as there are multiple prizes why dont you make the poll a "select multiple options" sort of poll?
It may be too late I guess if voting has already started, but I think we should consider this for next months comp

I think I have enough work doing it the way it is now without adding more to it.
It has been working OK so fare and isn't broken and I don't believe in trying to fix something that isn't broken.

If we get up to the stage where we are getting 100 or more entries which I don't expect will ever happen then maybe things will have to change.
As for multiple prizes that is not going to happen very often only when we get a good sponsor like the one that has sponsored the 4 prizes for this one and may I ad may do the same again for the Christmas one in December fingers crossed.

by **connor** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:59 pm

Dontcopy wrote:
QUOTE (Dontcopy @ Jul 1 2011,5:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Connor deserves my vote.. shh don't tell him

Thanks mate!

by **spongebob206** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 4:28 pm

Thanks all involved and Just Flight.

What an awesome screenie comp. Top 10-20-30-40+ are sooooo hard to chose from.

Well done

by **happytraveller** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 10:27 am

Not easy, but I have just voted (and not for my own shot!!).

Couple of suggestions for the next competitions. How about a competition with at least two aircraft flying in the shot, and how about an AirNZ competition? Just some thoughts for the future.

Going to be interesting to see how this month's comp. finishes!!!

smooth landings.

PS. We have to thank the sponsors again, and perhaps try to support them as thanks for supporting us at NZFF.

by **Ian Warren** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 1:37 pm

This is really cooking , hells bells - really have a race on now

by **toprob** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:15 pm

dbcunnz wrote:
QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Jul 1 2011,4:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If everyone voted on their own entry then we would all be winners and it would be very hard dividing 4 prizes up into 64 parts

Which brings me to my pet peeve -- does anyone who doesn't enter actually vote? Members total about 30 times the number of entries here, but we can't even push the number of votes past the number of entries. Think of this as practise for the general election later this year, and make it your duty to vote! All members can vote, it only takes a few seconds, go on, I dare ya!

by **Adamski** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:33 pm

toprob wrote:
QUOTE (toprob @ Jul 4 2011,2:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Which brings me to my pet peeve -- does anyone who doesn't enter actually vote?

Weird, isn't it? At the moment - there are 50 votes - for 50 entries.

by **Ian Warren** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:38 pm

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Jul 4 2011,3:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Weird, isn't it? At the moment - there are 50 votes - for 50 entries.

And course , we don't see any other members joining the fun all the 1700 plus ... as far as the GE is concerned ...

by **Bazza** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:50 pm

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Jul 4 2011,2:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Weird, isn't it? At the moment - there are 50 votes - for 50 entries.

Just as an example....ME.

No entry (lack of artistic merit) and a vote ...not easy either.

by **Ian Warren** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:56 pm

Bazza wrote:
QUOTE (Bazza @ Jul 4 2011,4:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
No entry (lack of artistic merit) and a vote ...not easy either.

Come on Baz

, you have 50 people here that can help you out and get you trained up , maybe that what we need is a school here to teach and show the tricks , just simply have to ask for a tutor and away you go

by **Adamski** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:17 pm

Bazza wrote:
QUOTE (Bazza @ Jul 4 2011,3:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
No entry (lack of artistic merit) and a vote ...not easy either.

I find the easiest thing is to put your aircraft in auto-pilot, jump into outside view and just watch ... scroll around .. hit that "V" key whenever you fancy. I'm constantly amazed at what FSX can serve up. Mind you - I have REX dynamic weather on all the time, so it's different every time.

As to "artistic merit" - sometimes the shot just composes itself

... anyway, though the entries are generally extremely high in quality, there still seems a huge variation in expertise - and often many votes go in unpredictable directions (such is democracy!!!) ... so it's always worth putting *something* in! Winning isn't the thing. In all my submissions, I think I've only one once ... but it's still great fun trying.

by **dbcunnz** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:09 am

OK guys and girls you have only got until midnight to night to get your vote in.

There are 54 entries and only 52 votes so far where are the rest of you members.

I have the results of the ballot from Scott and the 2 winners from the ballot are

yep you guessed it they wont be posted until after midnight when the 4 winners will all be posted

by **Adamski** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:14 am

dbcunnz wrote:
QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Jul 5 2011,12:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I have the results of the ballot from Scott and the 2 winners from the ballot are yep you guessed it they wont be posted until after midnight when the 4 winners will all be posted

I thought that the ballot wouldn't happen till after the vote was complete. Does that mean a vote winner could *also* get a ballot prize? Could be interesting!

by **dbcunnz** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:21 am

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Jul 5 2011,12:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I thought that the ballot wouldn't happen till after the vote was complete. Does that mean a vote winner could *also* get a ballot prize? Could be interesting!

Unfortunately each member can only receive one prize from this comp so if it happens that one of the top 2 in the vote were to receive a prize from the ballot then the next one down the voting list will pick up the other prize.

by **dbcunnz** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:55 pm

Where are all the votes not very good only 53 votes from over 1700 members that means that only about 1 in every 32 members are actually voting.
It would be nice to have every member who logs on to the forum over the 5 days the voting is open to have a look and cast a vote for the entry that they think has the best image, you don't have to have an entry in the competition to vote.

by **Adamski** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:04 pm

Considering it decides our *banner* - which is what everyone (the world over) sees for a whole month, I'd have thought people would be keen to have a say in it. I don't think it makes us look to good to our [very generous] sponsors either

Let *me* say this (as Doug can't) ... it'd be nice if people appreciated the *hours* of work he puts in on our behalf ... when all it takes is one click!

by **Bazza** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:52 pm

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Jul 5 2011,5:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Considering it decides our *banner* - which is what everyone (the world over) sees for a whole month, I'd have thought people would be keen to have a say in it. I don't think it makes us look to good to our [very generous] sponsors either

I think the issue here is that this forum is supported to a large extent by a pretty small number of regulars....comparatively speaking.

The last couple of years has seen a number of people join on and take over a very active part in proceedings, (thank god) and we know who they are.

Quoting the overall number of persons registered is a forlorn exercise that every forum I have ever belonged to has a problem with.

Many people join, post a couple of times and are never seen or heard of again - maybe someone told them to join to get a particular piece of "addon" and they
have never come back after that.

What would the membership be if every everyone who hasn't responded in the last 18 months was deleted...?

The other point is that of recent times, screenshots have become almost the driving point of the forum, especially after VLC was done and dusted. No problems for me as I like pretty, artistic pictures,
however there are other aspects to the hobby.

Bit of devil's advocate stuff here...hope it's not misinterpreted.

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