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Subject: Re: Spring 2009 MATLAB Contest, April 1st-April 10th
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:28:01 +0000 (UTC)
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"Ned Gulley" <gulley@mathworks.com> wrote in message <gr0lrt$oal$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "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.
(snip) 
> 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.

I think it would be cool if in addition to tagging their favorites, everyone participating in this contest also rated all the submissions that they looked at, and also left a comment if they felt like it. That way a person could look at the list of submissions with the 'vis2009' tag and see what entries other people are finding well-done and interesting by sorting the search results by rating, instead of having to slog through a long list of undifferentiated entries. It would also give the authors feedback on what people liked or what they could improve on when working on their next entry, making the contest a more collaborative community effort.