Forum Community Competition - Winner gets a BigPic4 development board

[gadelhas]

You lose I voted on the first day.

Me too....

[HankMcSpank]

Me too....

To be fair, whilst the competition itself was obvious enough, the voting deadlines were'nt - I only stumbled upon the deadline today becuase I happen to have a question in the sub forum and wandered into this thread again. (I've since cast my vote)

It's a lot of work towards submiting an entry & I'm sure most forum posters would support/vote for the entrants *if* they had better visibility and reminders of the impending deadline .......perhaps something highly visible to alert all on the main forum homepage would yield more voting?

Anyway...good work to all those who entered & good luck.

[LEDave]

How about we call the winner at Midnight Pacific Time, about 21 hours from now.

That sounds far too soon to me

Then again I'm 10 -8 down

LEDave

[ScaleRobotics]

To be fair, whilst the competition itself was obvious enough, the voting deadlines were'nt - I only stumbled upon the deadline today becuase I happen to have a question in the sub forum and wandered into this thread again. (I've since cast my vote)

It's a lot of work towards submiting an entry & I'm sure most forum posters would support/vote for the entrants *if* they had better visibility and reminders of the impending deadline .......perhaps something highly visible to alert all on the main forum homepage would yield more voting?

Anyway...good work to all those who entered & good luck.

Hello Hank,

You are right. Yes, we will have to look for ways to make it more visible. I originally, naively, thought we could get all votes in in a day or two, and declare the winner. Boy was I wrong! And it wasn't till about two or three days before the submission deadline that I knew there would be more than 1 entrant in the competition! When the voting started, I made an "announcement" to last until I turned it off. But it looks like you can only see "announcements" if you click on FORUM and then the main topics, like mel PIC BASIC Pro for instance. I also tried a few pleading posts, begging for people to vote. But you are right, we need to do something better. Perhaps next time we will ask permission to take down the landing page info for PicBasicPRo, and replace it with the entrants submissions, etc. Definitely lots to learn from what went wrong, and what (hopefully) didn't. Lot's to do different if there is a next time. We welcome any and all comments for improvement.

As for the duration of voting ... How long do you think it should it last?

Thanks guys,

Walter

[mackrackit]

I am sure some will take offence to this... Oh well...

Folks that come here with the intention to learn and help will have seen this thread. The "New Post" button does work.

Those coming here only to ask a question and not give back to the community probably will not see this thread.