-renapd- opened this issue on Apr 07, 2002 ยท 7 posts
Alleycat169 posted Sun, 07 April 2002 at 11:39 AM
Congrats to the winners, and no offense to you Rena, but... I didn't even know where to find the members gallery until after the voting was over. The official rules left out the URL for the gallery. Once I did find it I wasn't even able to view a single entry or winner without Netscape crashing with a Type3 error. I've tried a half dozen times today to navigate past all the pop up advertisements and cookies to view the winner's gallery, only to get the same crash everytime. I never have this problem navigating the Pay site, so I assume it is just the free site that does this. You might want to take a look at the site and see what the problem is. It just does not like Netscape. My other critique is regarding all contests in general that use member voting to pick the winner. They always turn into a personal popularity contest, and rarely have any bearing on the quality of the art submitted. From what I could see of the winner's thumbnails before my browser crashed, the three winning images were not the best images entered. They just got the most votes from other members. In the future, you might want to get a panel of judges to select the winners based on an established criteria of technique, concept, execution and originality. Member votes are always biased and beholding IMHO.