Originally Posted by
More Champagne Sir?
May I suggest that the handle of each photographer is removed from the list? Just so as to ensure equal fairness, and no unintended bias.
If I could think of a way to make the contest totally blind I would do that. Short of having people e-mail me the photographs to be posted I could not think of a practicable way to hide who publshed which image.
The reason I decided to arrange the images by number at the PBase site was to at least make the comparison process itself a blind one, even though there is nothing to stop people from referring back to the posting thread if they want to do that.
PBase itself has a voting system that works quite well, but I could not think of a way to limiting that to only FlyerTalker participation.
In the end, I think the relatively low stakes in the contest does more to keep the voting fair than anything.
Still, if people feel strongly about the names being listed, I can remove them.
birdstrike