RTH Cab Contest - winner board and data

Just chiming in on the prize- I'm with the others, I agree with the cabs benefiting RTH.

Yeah I get that - I think if it becomes a 'thing' I will try to integrate it into the regular contest better and maybe lose some of that 'bracket' feel. Someone else suggested that we devote December to the runoff between the winners of the year and I thought that was a good idea and helps keep it a bit lower key.

I thought I'd add in further food for thought.

Although I'm a relatively newcomer to the forum, I've been watching the contest for a number of months, and only just started entering .
I wonder if the voting should be "categorized".

Here's what I mean - As it is now, you vote for an individual cab, yes or no, and are supposed to consider many areas:
contest theme, cab itself, photo, etc .

So what if people, instead of voting yes or no (with a check in the box), instead they voted with a numbering / scoring system - In fact, they could vote for more than one cab even, in different categories.
Maybe only being allowed to vote for 1 cab in each category.

I'll give a for instance, using the current voting criteria list below, that voters are supposed to consider.
With the following changes:
Voting could be categorized such as the below list (Maybe with further additions / changes)
Each category would be voted separately with a numbering system 1-10 - With 10 being the highest.
The person with the highest total score at the end, wins.

1) How well was the theme challenge of the contest theme met ?
2) How well did the shape of the stone meet the general contest requirements, or any special theme-based shape requirements?
3) General appearance, beauty, artistic creativity.
4) Photography - is there a direct and focused front shot and a direct and focused side shot for voting purposes?

Of course I do see one large problem - I think it would be be a lot of work for Tommy to even set up.
It might also mean that less people vote overall, since it's not a simple check, but a thought out vote or score in each category.

OTOH - I for one would think it would be more educational that way, and help (me anyway) strive to do better.
It might also take a little away from the unspoken "material rules" aspect - Which in some ways would be more fair, seeing as we all don't have the 20+ year rock stash :-O

Patty, probably making things difficult, as usual.........

Hi Patty, thanks for the very good and interesting feedback, it's very much appreciated. I would love to be able to set up a weighted voting system like you described but we are limited to one "check mark" poll per thread and there are no plugins that I've ever found that can change the Proboards software poll system to allow numbers or type-in fields. The only way I can think of to accomplish this would be to abandon the poll all together and require that votes be PM'd in and hand sorted. If I were able to handle this time-wise, it would make sense to go all in and make it the 100% anonymous contest which several members have asked for over the years. Right now such changes are way beyond me and my limited time management skills but I'll keep thinking about it and see if there's anything out there as far as forum software goes.

As a side note a while back I asked what people would think if I set the voting poll to allow folks to vote for up to three entries - my thought was that allowing everyone to vote for three would cause a weighting of the votes. Not as clean as a true 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place votes system but it would still sort out into the stone that got voted for the most times wins.

Anyway, the idea sounded good in my head but it was resoundingly rejected by the community so I guess it wasn't that great

Keep it simple so more new RTH members want to participate. Have a separate contest for tumblers that don't cab.