May Photo Challenge - Discussion

[hopewrites]

More days for votting would mean fewer for entering. I think starting and ending them at midnight is so we can use the autoclosing feature on the poll.

[anivid]

No, not more days for voting - just another starting time.
And if not specifying any time length - as did Mr. Alchemist - one just collect when the poll is over (midnight something).
Or one can choose the length of time to after the voting is over and do the same (collect when the poll is over).
I cannot enter the poll setting up system now, so this is as far as I remember - did you/others make a poll and remember more ??

[StormFeather]

Crikey!

Have been off the grid so to speak for a few days, and come back to find that I'm in a tie with Moonbat!!! Thank you to Perp Man, Taly, TP & Wybren for the votes and Alex for the shortlisting! Am a happy bunny!!

How exciting (and slightly scary!) Mind you, it'd be lovely to get more Chronites involved with this competition . . . . although that would only make the voting harder, but I love the variety that each theme brings.

Anyway, am falling asleep at the computer again, so need to get some shut eye!

[alchemist]

We just trust that people won't vote after the allotted time.

And somebody puts up a congratulations message as soon as it's over!

[Teresa Edgerton]

You can automatically set the amount of time the poll remains open in terms of days, but it will close exactly that many days to the hour and minute after you post the poll.

So if you want it to close at a certain hour and minute, you either have to post the thread at that exact hour and minute (x days earlier).

Or you can leave the actual poll open indefinitely, tell people when it officially closes, and one of you be there at the exact time to announce the winner.

Or you leave the poll open indefinitely, and talk a moderator into locking the thread at the specified time. I don't think you will have a lot of luck with that. I've stepped in this time, but I'm not going to make a habit of it.

The software being what it is, I don't think you have any other options.

[hopewrites]

We really appreciate you stepping in this time TE
However we solve this for future, we should keep it so mods don't have to be involved. Not in their official capacity anyway.

[David Evil Overlord]

Okay, voting has closed, so I can comment.

A couple of people commented on the photo I posted of a pond with fish in it. It's not meant to be a pond. It's actually part of the church. Those mosaic floors felt the tread of Christian feet way back in the fourth century.

Sometime between then and now, the lowest floor of the church flooded. It's remained like that ever since. Seems water preserves those ancient mosaics better than air and feet do.

Or maybe it just protected the mosaics from the Renaissance, when mosaics were seen as pathetic, primitive art that should be torn down to make way for newer art. Maybe the "modern art" movement of the fourteenth-seventeenth century didn't want to get it's collective feet wet. To say nothing of the difficulties involved in painting underwater...

[alchemist]

Looks like you got the most out of your Italian holiday, DEO.

So, congrats to Moonbat and Stormfeather! You two shake hands or clasp wrists or something. By my calculations, with Moonbat having won recently, Stormfeather has the honour/trauma of posting the next challenge.

[anivid]

Congrats to the two winners – Moonbat and StormFeather J
You now entered « The Hall of Fame » for this thread J

Whou – I got three votes, exorbitant - I’ll savour them over and over again J
Alex, Lilmiz and the Zebra – you all have a VERY good taste J
Thank you !
It seems the peers are very diversified in valuing pics.
That's interesting.

[Mouse]

Congrats to SF and Moonbat!

[Talysia]

Indeed, congratulations Stormfeather and Moonbat - looking forward to seeing what the new theme is!

[anivid]

To those who didn’t get any votes THIS time, I’ll say : don’t get disappointed or embarrassed – there’re things just as bad as beeing forgotten.

I once won a national sharpshooter obstacle course competition with a VERY mediocre number of points – to say it mildly J
The sun shimmered, the hills exuded heat, and the sand flew into every little muzzle – on the humans too.
So I decided to take it easy J
And then it happened.
All the good marksmen were disqualified /had functional problems one way or another.
Me and my relaxed points was announced winner !!
Needless to say my inner child had red ears when walking up the aisle for receiving the silver plate.
But the worst was yet to come : my name and points were engraved in the silver thingy (challenge cup) for all the future to see !
Exercise in non-attachement J

[Moonbat]

Thank you guys n gals, for the votes and the congratulations.

I get the best of both worlds, I am officially a winner and yet I don't have to choose next month's theme, easy livin.

[StormFeather]

Originally Posted by alchemist

So, congrats to Moonbat and Stormfeather! You two shake hands or clasp wrists or something. By my calculations, with Moonbat having won recently, Stormfeather has the honour/trauma of posting the next challenge.

Originally Posted by Moonbat

I get the best of both worlds, I am officially a winner and yet I don't have to choose next month's theme, easy livin.

Wow! Cheers Peeps!!!!! Happy, happy me

*dances round room in celebration*

Delighted, and slightly dazed about picking a theme (thanks MB!)

Am afraid I've been stupendously busy today at the school, where I've spent the majority of my hours helping out with one thing or another, from 8:15 to 4:30, culminating with the Jubilee Party for 400 kids, which included jelly and cake. Tremendous fun, but absolutely shattering, and I now need an early night, as I'm too tired to think straight.

I have an idea or two for a theme, but will need to do a bit of research as to a) whether either has been done on here before, and b) whether either actually make a good idea at all.

I promise to post a theme by end of tomorrow, however, I suggest that you all get out and about with your camera's over the the weekend and take pictures of whatever takes your fancy . . . .

[alchemist]

(imagines theme of "Red, white and blue")