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From: "Ned Gulley" <gulley@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Spring 2009 MATLAB Contest, April 1st-April 10th
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:21:01 +0000 (UTC)
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"Michael Bindschadler" wrote 

> The voting system seems to me to be seriously flawed, however.  
> For each entry, I have the option of voting for it (applying the tag) 
> or not voting for it (not applying the tag). 

One of the nice things about tagging is that it is perfectly reversible. You can remove a tag as easily as you add it and there is no record of it ever having existed. So I hope you will tag things that you find interesting as you go, and then you can shift around your votes as more entries come in.

Keep in mind that you can also find all the files that you personally have tagged vis2009 (as opposed to those that everyone has) by going to the advanced search page and filling out the section "Tagged vis2009 by user ID <your user ID>" And when you've done that once, you can keep it as a bookmarklet to review all of the your favorite files as needed.

See 
  http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/advanced_search

Your suggestion about vis2009_final_vote is interesting. If there is widespread support for this idea, we'd consider it... this is a very flexible contest... but I'm hoping we can just use the one tag and see how that goes.