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hope i wins, hope it loses.. i have a stock of 6,000 pictures that were doing nothing til farktography started.. using them up at the rate of 3 per week has some advantage..

anyways, 115 reads, 21 replies, there isn’t a lot of enthusiasm, i might be ahead of my time again

will the pole be next weds and announced during the contest? or maybe left up til then?

anyways, thanks for considering my question

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schnee wrote:

i see a lot of regular fark users (i win’t say liters) have won contests

Of all the 1st place finishers, 11 of them were posted after mainpage listing. 33 times such entries have placed in the top three. Surprising to me, but I’m glad.

i’m glad too, at any rate, i just wanted to toss an idea out…

it seemed choked last night

what would be the odds of emailing all farktograopjhy memebers and asking them/us about a rules change?

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i’m thinking that trimming things now leaves room to grow for number of people participating of course..

i don’t understand what limiting submissions has to do with expanding our participation base….maybe i’m missing something?

my thoughts on this stem from seeing a farker complain about seeing the thread filled with tf posts, some 130 by the time it went live

limiting posts to 2 means that ther could have been 80 posts by the time it went live vs 140, means that that person my not have been discouraged, and maybe others too..

one cool thing about photography, and it’s honestly why i am a photographer, is that you can do art even if you can’t draw

i cant draw, flunked out of art…

photography is kind of an equaliser, anyone with a camera walking down the street might take the coolest photo

so i think that anything that might open up a contest to more partisipation is sorta what photography is all about

when the rules were made up in the beginnning the first contest had 30 or 40 submissions

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btw, I also think that frustration was over the time the contest posted to the mainpage. I noticed that we had 43 something link votes before the link got greenlighted but today it shows as only 24 I think. Not sure what’s up with that, but I wish we could get some kind of arrangement to get greenlit by 10pm or midnight every week…

good point, so if it went live in an hour and there were 2 submissions the contest would remain accessible, even as the number of people participating grew..

i’m thinking that trimming things now leaves room to grow for number of people participating of course..

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but even last night when i went to the contest 4 hours after it
started there were already 125 posts, which could have been 80 or 40…
people post early because it seems the folks who post early get a few
more votes, not true i see a lot of regular fark users
(i win’t say liters) have won contests, and once you get the bug,
you join, as you say, it is only 5 bucks per month

limiting the number ups the ante
-which isn’t bad just more of a challenge

since farktography contests seem to be here to stay
any picture you don’t use in a contest today, you can probably use
in a later contest

i’ve found myself kicking myself in ther butt for using some pictures
already, but i am living off my stock photos, every picture i’ve
entered is one i’ve taken for the heck of it, only one i ever took
for a contest is the dog picture of my back yard

i think there should be a poll at any rate, and maybe a mass email
sent out about the poll

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i’m going to redoit again… back to the old drawing board..

mine used to look like yours, pshop galleries…

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sunny f16 rule, rule of thirds, join a photography club with judging

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Ha! That gave me a good chuckle.

i’ll take it that i didnt post it before

i didnt know i’d taken that picture til i gotm the film back

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i just looked in the archives, i know i used it in the photo shoot out that preceded farktography…

http://lotusimages.com/images2/some%20like%20it%20hot.jpg

tyia

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inspired by the upgrade here i want to update my links page… gots a banner?

didnt notice that it saw me as a guest…

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Congrats on your win Charlie! Groovy. 8)

i used to get kicked out of the house when she was ‘undermedicated’, i got lotsa good shots during her whatchamacallits

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this internal box thing is spiffy

oooh, paging veruca!

ardvaark = mascot?

That or I nominate monkeybort’s smoking baby. Haha. It keeps making me laugh.

why not use both? *grin* i could probably whip something up when i get back from FL.

but if you’re serious, let me know and i’ll email you the file. or you can just grab it from the forum if’n ya want to.

idle_hands and I were discussing some projects maybe for the future – mine was adopting a farktography mascot and sending it around the world to be photgraphed by our collective selves in odd/weird locations. what do you think?

that, in addition to idle’s idea of sending a disposable camera around the country/world to our various participants, sounds like SO MUCH FUN.

Reminds me to set up a section for projects. Uno momento por favor…

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where’s the button to get back to the farktography main page?

hmmmm….that is an excellent question.

anyways, things work okay, i get emails teloing me you replyed to my message

are we going to have ardvarks too?

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