LFGSS weekly photography challenge

well done everyone. props to the shitworkers!

good week. congrats @Vesalius and good adminning @mi7rennie .

hit me up with a new subject.

Wahey :)

I'll pick a theme and let those in the know sort out plans for a poll/voting system more easy on the eye haha.
As someone mentioned this is LFGSS though, when in doubt make a List™, it did the job.

This weeks theme shall be:

#Power

Interpret that as you see fit, looking forward to a variety of entries.

Also, can those who haven't submitted a photo, vote in the competition?

Not sure I saw anything in teh rulez about it

Congrats man!

Well done everyone, the level of participation was really cool. Looking forward to starting this next one.

I reckon do a "hashtag"photocomptheme so we can keep record of all the themes.
If you do @mi7rennie could edit one into his first post.

If I knew what that meant I would definately do it! haha

Like the theme.

I think voting should be open to all.

If you were to write "hashtag"photocomptheme (could be anything really) on every post that a theme was set then by searching that hashtag you would get a list of all the themes used. This would be useful to avoid overlapping themes leading to accidentally counting submissions from further back in the thread.

Obviously not that useful now, but maybe somewhat useful in the future.

Power is interesting. Stumped though.

Nice idea I'll but busy this week until sunday

Agreed

Woooooo congrats bro!

Indeed. In the end i didnt get the time to view all the entries and vote.

As i said before a new thread for each contest should be created and then a new thread with just the entries and a poll (if possible)

Congrats to @Vesalius and everyone who entered

Photography subbforum? If we go down the multiple thread route. @Velocio, what do you think?

A voting suggestion:

To vote, simply put a post on the thread, including the hashtag of the theme and a "vote" hashtag, with the name of the person or photo you are voting for.

I'll do an example in my next post.

#architecture #vote

@mi7rennie Stacks of Steel

That way:

We don't get pages and ages of lists.

You only get a mention on your following page if you are voted for.

Counting votes is a simple search for both hashtags.

Plus, I am also in favour of a sub forum and a thread per week.

I'm trying to decide how hard it would be to put together a quick website to display the pictures for each week.

@Sumo i dont think its necessary. now that there is a photography subforum all we need to do is create a thread i.g "LFGSS photography contest no.2 - Power" where we input all of our submissions. Then a new thread i.e "Voting for LFGSS photography contest no.2 - Power" where we just put the photos with the title and we vote either by poll or just stating our preference.

to do the second thread just save the images to your pc and the attach them to the new thread.

Better off keeping the system on the forum, as it's the place we all interact. A quick site might be easier to vote on and read votes from, but if the admin goes on holiday...

Liking the new theme! I'm gonna get snappy out there this week.

Perhaps someone would like to help me with some front-end JavaScript and Django?

One of the things I wanted to add to Microcosm was a Q&A thing.

Within each forum, today you events and conversations. I wanted another type, a Q&A.

A Q&A type had these features:

• An initial comment
  
• A list of other comments
  
• After the initial comment, all comments were voteable
  
• You could vote on as many other comments as you liked
  
• You could only vote once on a single comment
  
• You could change your vote in future
  
• You could vote: Yay, Meh or Grr... which is basically upvote, average, downvote.
  
• We would order all of the comments, not by date, but by the score each comment had earned.
  
• At some point in time whomever started the Q&A would be able to award one of the upvoted comments as "The Answer".
  
  

Essentially this is Stack Overflow or Quora built-in to a forum.

And some of the code is there for it https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm/blob/master/helpers/constants.go#L47 , essentially I duplicate the conversations: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm/blob/master/models/conversations.go and then I would need to finally put the YMG database table into use: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm/blob/master/db/migrations/20150930224827_initial.sql#L5020:L5046

What I'd need to do is:

• Duplicate conversations as Q&A (trivial)
  
• Edit that to return comments ordered by score (trivial)
  
• Create an API that takes the votes for authenticated users (trivial)
  
• Design the "Best Answer" and voting interface (difficult for me, I'm not a designer)
  
• Add the vote API and Q&A to Django (an annoyance for me, I'm very rusty on Python)
  
• Create the templates in Django (an annoyance for me, I'm very rusty)
  
  

If there is a Django developer here, I'll do all of the backend work and will help get you set up with the dev environment and grant you push access to the Github.

And you can see where this leads... each week you'd have one Q&A thread for that week's competition... and everyone could vote directly on the comments containing the photos. It would be obvious who the winner is (the most upvoted comment), but for posterity that would be recorded by selecting the comment as the best answer.

so @Velocio i guess a poll like a vbulletin forum cannot exist?

unfortunately i cant help regarding the programming..

I can build a vBulletin style poll as well, but it would still be weak at doing a photo competition (poll options can't really contain images so you're voting on textual labels and are expected to mentally correlate that to the image and comment in question).

And because a poll system is more complex and generalised than the Q&A system it would take a long long time to implement... whereas I could complete all of the backend work for Q&A this week it might take a couple of months to build the polls system.