Contest 03/2012: AMERICA

[Till]

Still not joined....just no Idea. Every try failed. its annoing ....

[Janina]

30 pictures so far!
33 actually, but I think 3 of them have nothing to do with the topic...

The voting starts at midnight after Thursday (March15th). This is the first contest in this new gallery, so there might be strange things happening... but I will be online to fix it if it doesn't work like it should. For example the standard setting is you are allowed to rate but not to comment the picture during the contest. I will try to change this.
Let's just hope everything works .

I'm sure it will go swimmingly, but us Mods will be there ready to jump into action.

[Till]

I submitted a picture, but Im not happy with it, well lets see...

the worst thing about the contest is the "new" voting funktion. I really miss the 5 stars. I hope everybody knows how to vote so far.

[Janina]

I am working on changing the voting system back to stars till Friday. It's very complicated for me, because I have to edit code I don't understand - but perhaps I can get it working . It's worth a try.

Well, I wish you luck

[Eggyslav]

So, When the voting starts?

[Janina]

Midnight (GMT+1), so that's in 4 hours and 17 minutes from now.

[Janina]

You can vote now!
If everything works like it should you can not see the names of the uploaders yet.
Right now you cannot comment on contest entrys before the contest ends. I haven't managed to change this yet, but I am still trying...

It's good to hide the author and even the current puntuation of the picture, but I think that the description should be shown (but moderated to erase clues about the identity of the author). It may help to understand the picture.

I also should put the rating and comments upwards and the image url and image BBcode at the bottom because they are less useful.

And yes... unsurprisingly... a Joker appeared...

[Janina]

The descriptions should be visible, but many did not add a description to their submission. I think some of them just submitted a random pictures...

Edit: Okay, ist seems to be a general problem. The contest settings don't want you to see the descriptions... I need to change the PHP code for this (as well as for allowing the comments) and I cannot get it working. Does anybody here knows how to code in PHP?

I love this section. You have a great imagination! I've already voted.
I haven't seen tango neither samba or carnival. I have no time (not even imagination )
Good luck!!!

[Janina]

The description is shown now.

But... can you vote? Because I cannot

[Caribou]

Nope. When I try to vote, I get a message telling me I'm not allowed to access that area.

[Jetpack-guy]

same

[Till]

Me too. btw: dont you have to submit your vote too? If thats right there are no votes till its repaired?!? but i dont know.

[Janina]

Damn...

[Till]

so I combined right? - damn...

[Janina]

If you cannot vote and I cannot vote, that most likely means nobody can vote. And I have no clue why .

[Janina]

Voting works now! I am still working on the comment problem.

Edit: Good news, I found myself a PHP helper! He will have a look at the files. So you just need a little more patience. But at least the voting works.

[Janina]

The first contest in the new gallery worked - we have a winner! And it seems like it was fairer this time, because we had less "down voters". The good pictures have better ratings now. But remember this was only the first contest and the rating system is still the complicated one without stars. So we did not have many voters. But I am sure this will change when the changes to the voting system are made.



CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS:

1) Caribou
2) Ildorf
3) Eggyslav
4) bellaXraven
5) Till





Great pictures! And I picked a "Janina's choice" newbie: Strider.



Now you can comment on the pictures .
The prices will be assigned later today when I start the new contest. And I will update the News and Hall of Fame.
@Caribou: If you hurry I can include your wish tomorrow with the SP-Studio update I am working on right now.

Thank you very much, Janina, for the 'honorific mention'.
And also for the ones who voted my picture.
Congratulations for the winners.

[ADePALMA1251]

I did miss being able to comment durring the contest. I hope some sort of middle ground will be found for how the old contests were set up, and how the new contests will be set up...

[Eggyslav]

[bellaXraven]

AWESOME!!!! FOURTH PLACE!!!!

Look's like I'm improving and slowly climbing up the Top 5 ladder!

Congrats to Caribou, Ildorf, Eggyslav and Till!!! =]
Your pictures were amazing...I gave those pictures four stars!

[Janina]

[Till]

Congrats to the other winners & Strider, you done great great work, all of you! And thanks for any votes!
Eggy, Caribou, bellaX: Iknew this are yours... the style says everything. And Eggy, your my verry personal winner this picture is nothing but amazing.

and to all: i wish you much Imagination for the next Contest!

[Eggyslav]

Wow, Thanks Till! I'm really flattered by now. I'm so happy you guys liked it! Bella, Your Titanic Picture is wonderful, one of my favourites here.... And Caribou, you earned your first place, you really are the greatest artist in SPS Community.... Congrats everyone, bravo, bravissimo!

[Janina]

Sorry, I have a hell of a headache right now... I will start the new contest a bit later. I am sure I will feel better tomorrow.

[Till]

Oh, get well Janina!