If the winner doesn’t supply a theme before Thursday 22:30 GMT, the organizer will select the theme. In this case, the winner’s theme will be used the next time we are lacking a theme on Thursday 22:30 GMT.
Having selected the theme, the winner will not be eligible to enter that week. They may however still submit an image, but it won’t be included in the voting.
(Open: The lizard man head was decapitated from a downloaded model. I made the rest, but going with “open” because the lizard head is the main feature.)
I don’t think so. At least, I’m not aware of a setting like that. And now that I think about it, depending on a polls topic and how this would be handled technically, this could lead to privacy issues.
speaking for myself, i would not want that info public. it’s one thing to have the info avail to moderators, so they can check for bot-spamming or somesuch, but mebbe peeps don’t want you to know they did or did not vote, regardless of for whom/what.
Depending on the circumstances, one could still infer the individual votes from this data. (e.g. by tracking the changes over time or by analyzing certain distributions)
It is probably better to keep it the way it is. (Even if it was possible to change it.)
If we’re going to see who voted - wait until the end; a running total/list is obviously easy to disect. However, I would simply not bother. 39 voters, so I don’t think it’s a uxed vote. I assume the moderator can see who voted and has the data to figure out if there’s an unusual pattern where someone uses multiple accounts to vote for themselves (rigging especially would be obvious over time, with multiple contests.)
All in all, sometimes I disagree with the result but I see the result does favour the better entries so I think it’s pretty fair.
Thank you very much @KDLynch and @fcharr and to everyone who voted. A lot of great entries, as usual. I hope you all enjoy my choice of theme for the next challenge.
Having never seen this kind of comment in any of the other challenges, I’m curious.
I’m assuming that you made this comment because you didn’t agree with the direction in which the poll was headed so you thought something untoward was going on. Firstly, making that implication is quite offensive. Secondly, why do you only have 18 minutes total view time on this website and no other activity apart from that comment? It almost seems like you are an alt account.
Congratulations on the win, @PMDesigns! I apologize for not getting your image up on the featured row last week. SIGGRAPH had my full attention so I dropped the ball on getting the featured image up.
Whaaaat? Oh wow. SIGGRAPH is (for now) my second favorite event to go to in a year (after BCON). As an organization, SIGGRAPH is a division of the ACM that’s a special interest group for graphics. There’s an annual conference (typically in Los Angeles ever other year… and other North American cities on the non-LA years) where researchers, artists, educators, and hardware/software convene share, take notes, and generally network with one another with courses, an expo, a film festival, and quite a few parties. It’s quite an experience.
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