Re: COMPETITION thoughts/ideas...
Firstly Steve, thanks very much for the competition, I personally appreciated it but was disappointed by the answers being made public so early. Since they appeared correct, it removed the incentive to try to better them.
I tried to have factual answers. No which picture is better.. type "questions".
Do you want subjective questions ? ie which photo is better ?
Good plan to avoid subjectivity, unless the judging is by public voting but there needs to be a 1-vote-per-username system
Do you want questions that have to be guesses ? ( eg what is Steve's waist wrist size ? )
LOL, always good to avoid a tie-breaker and add some unpredictability (& fun!)
I didn't want a competiton where the first answer wins, because after, say, 4 days no-one has an incentive to even try. That's why I had 3 prizes.
Agreed, I wouldn't want a race.
It was a BIG mistake to make the answers public (thankyou BG & SJACKAL for pointing this out ). Future competitions will be run differently.
Agreed
Maybe I made it too difficult ?
Maybe there were too many questions ?
Maybe all the questions should have been about modern seamasters/James Bond ?
Maybe there is simply no interest ?
Maybe the prizes were crap / uninteresting for the forum members ?
Maybe no-one trusts me enough to send me their snail mail address if they win ?
I don't think any of these are true. It was more the fact that the game was up after the first poster that I personally didn't enter. I couldn't disagree with any of those answers (and didn't want to just be a sheep and get a prize for it!)
Should I exclude competition winners from the next competition? So John, Jason & Sam can't enter the next competition ?
This might avoid repetitive winners, unless the type of questions naturally add some unpredictability. The gentlemanly thing to do as a winner would be to back off on the next competition anyway.
