03-07-12 – Instant Inspiration

Fluffybunny we have these discussions regularly, and you are correct – the more entrants/entries a contest gets, the more voting there is. Generally, we have a low spot for participation through the November and December holiday season, and then a spike in January which lulls down to “normal” ups and downs for the large part of the year.

What CISS is seeing about a decline since October is a little troubling. There’s two things I can see possibly affecting it – the theme choices (which have been pretty varied but may have leaned more on the “must shoot new” than archive dives which drives down casual participation a lot) and the voting change which may have decreased total votes.

We keep going forward though. With Legos being a popular subject for many people and Curves being a good archive dive thread, I am interested to see what happens participation wise.