Is there a way to see the likes a photo gets without looking at each post?
New here, but I also participate on a grilling/BBQ forum where we have contests. Judging has to be done based on pictures and not tastings, but it works well. The winner of each contest chooses the "secret ingredient" for the next. The site admin starts the thread once that decision is made. At the end of the contest period, the admin puts up a poll and everyone votes over a specified time period. Would something similar work here?
What I would like is to just have a specified theme but no "winner". I feel that as soon as there is an imposed theme, all participants are winning just by doing their best and comparing themselves with all other members. The whole concept of winners and selection is what makes this harder to administrate.
I look at it kinda like a personal challenge. Can I make 3 photos that I would enter. June was the first challenge that I participated in and I won three times by coming up with three entries. If one of mine would have made the top five, it would have been icing on the cake of the fact that I am the best photographer who's ever lived inside my head. It's a small world (inside my head) but we all know each other here.
What I would like is to just have a specified theme but no "winner". I feel that as soon as there is an imposed theme, all participants are winning just by doing their best and comparing themselves with all other members. The whole concept of winners and selection is what makes this harder to administrate.
How can you call it a contest if there is no winner? That's what "Post your (whatever ) shots" is for.
It was billed as an "assignment", not a "contest"