On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:19 AM, Peter Ekman wrote:
> It seems to me that you can't possibly give a jury a 1,000 photos and expect
> them to come up with anything reasonable. That type of system would also
> drive away quality jurors - the best jurors simply wouldn't have time for
> all that. And if we're talking about 10,000 photos, it just gets worse.
> There has to be some sort of pre-screening, whether we like it or not.
A jury put in front of 1000 or more photos would have a difficult job,
but with a pre-screening you can get to a few hundreds of images and a
reasonable amount of work.
> A couple of suggestions for pre-screening:
> 1. Let the photographer decide which of his photos is best - say 1 for the
> entire contest or 1 for each day he/she uploads.
> 2. Have a contest each day, with a each photographer who uploaded that day
> nominating a single photo, and letting the community vote (I'd say +1 for
> each photo you like) then after a few days a selected screener from the
> community selects 2 or 3 photos from the group that has the highest score.
> After 30 days, you'd have 60-90 photos that the jury can deal with, each
> photog would have had the chance to nominate his best photos (multiple
> times), the community would have their say, and the screeners would not have
> to deal with 1,000s of photos.
Something like that would require a large organizational effort and a
large community, which is not the case for most of the participating
countries. Small teams and small communities will have to "Keep It
Simple and Stupid". [1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
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