Questions tagged [contest]
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Weekly Featured Image: Ongoing Contest
After a continuous run of almost a decade, contest participation has gotten extremely low. See Contest is definitely dead. Now what? for more, and for possible next steps to revitalize it.
Also, you ...
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Contest is definitely dead. Now what?
So.... we had an idea for revitalizing the contest by moving it to the main site but the moderators (who of course need to be on board for it to work) didn't like it.
We've had plans to inject some ...
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New Photo Contest
Announcing the new Photo Contest! Rather than maintain a long ongoing contest in Meta as was done for nearly a decade, we have shifted to periodic themed contests over on the main site.
Submit a photo ...
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Time for a pic-of-the-week theme?
There are a lot of theme ideas queued up.
Maybe we could start having a theme the first (or second) week of every month?
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Want your work published at Lifehacker & Ars Technica? Stack Exchange needs photos for syndication
As maybe you've noticed, we regularly send out some of (y)our content to Lifehacker and Ars Technica.
But we always find ourselves asking this question: What to do about the header photo!?
Perhaps ...
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Weekly Featured Image: "Stale Entry" removal policy?
The new ongoing rolling voting feature for our Weekly Featured Image (Picture of the Week) contest has been going on for a couple months now. We did have a glitch with the winter hats contest, which ...
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What to do about ties in the photo contest?
So, what should we do if there's a tie in the contest at the time the winner is selected?
(Vote for your preference, or add your own solution.)
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Idea: change Pic-of-Week contest to continuously rolling voting
I think the process by which we vote for promising picture of the week themes is a very interesting use of the stack exchange engine for voting. I wonder if we could change the picture of the week ...
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Post production contests?
I'm a very new member to photo.SE and have been doing my best to answer some of the questions floating in. I truly believe in the SE format and think photography is a good fit. I have noticed however, ...
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Proposal: Rules for *New* Photo Contest on Main Site
The consensus of Contest refresh suggestion: let's take entries on the *main* site appears to be that taking the contest to the main site and attempting to expand on critique is something that we ...
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Ars Technica Photo Contest: "How do I review my own code?"
Q&A: How do I review my own code?
Submission Rules:
Images must reflect the question posed, the answer(s) given, or the
general content represented in the Q&A at the top of this page. Get
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Is there going to be a new contest soon?
I noticed that the last PoTW contest ran about a month ago. On that post it states the likely next theme but when is that contest going to run?
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One year anniversary contest
I know that some sites, such as Super Users, have had contests around their 1 year anniversary. Perhaps if we start now, we could talk a few companies into pitching in some cool photography related ...
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Lifehacker Syndication Photo Contest: Let's Go!
No Lifehacker contests are currently running. See below for the latest winning submission and check back soon for the next opportunity to have your work published and help us out.
“How to properly ...
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Should we [gently] critique images in the Weekly Photo Contests?
From comments on this week's contest - Photo Competition 2021-11-15: Landscapes
Should we be free to gently critique pictures posted in the contests?
I raised this initially because I really felt one ...
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What's the most fair way to deal with the fact that the Winter Hat freeze prevented us from updating the picture of the week?
The Winter Hat thing SE is running prevented us from updating the header with the contest winner. It happens that since that time, a different entry has overtaken the previous winner in votes.
What's ...
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Photo contest on Main (since 2021): What works? What doesn't?
Since committing to the New Photo of the Week Contest on Main at the beginning of 2021, we have attracted many great submissions, too many to list. I'm supremely thankful for everybody who has ...
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How do I submit a photo for the weekly contest?
I´ve been on the weekly foto contest page, but it´s not clear how to upload a photo.
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Should we elect an additional mod specifically to help with the contest?
In the discussion on refreshing the photo contest, current mod @MikeW says:
Available mods. There are periods when one or two mods don't visit for a week or more. I try to keep the "weekly" contest ...
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Crowdhacker Contest: "How to properly cook a steak?"
Q&A: How to properly cook a steak?
Submission Rules:
Images must reflect the question posed, the answer(s) given, or the general content represented in the above Q&A.
Images must be 640 x ...
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contest: watermarks and logos?
We have a restriction against artificial borders in the contest photos; do we also want to restrict watermarks and text? I thought we did, but on rereading, it's unclear. The original rules had:
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Stack Exchange employees: somebody do something about the contest
We're at the point where low-quality entries which did not even follow the contest rules are being selected as winners. We had a proposal with some energy behind it, but a moderator shot it down ...
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What exactly is landscape mode in the contest?
Images need to be 210 pixels high for the contest, and in landscape orientation. A user asks if that means 211 pixels is the minimum width.
Is that the case, or is there some other minimum to really ...
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How can I submit a photo for the new weekly contest?
I want to submit a photo for this week's contest, but I am not certain how. So, how, can I? And how big must the photo's maximum size be?
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SQL help wanted: data explorer query to find winner of (proposed) new contest
See Proposal: Rules for *New* Photo Contest on Main Site.
We need a https://data.stackexchange.com query which will show the current winner. Specifically:
questions in the previous Sunday-to-...
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Photo contest sidebar still links to the old, historically locked weekly ongoing contest here on meta
Per New Photo Contest, the weekly ongoing contest post here on meta has been shut down, and competitions are now held on the main site.
However, the "Submit photo" link on the featured photo ...
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Why is the photo contest in Meta and not in the Main?
I think the photo contest is the most interesting thing on the site and should get even more importance!
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Isn't the timeline for weekly photo contest strictly followed?
Is it like the timeline of the contest is not being strictly followed any more? The image on the site header was chosen on June 6. It was supposed to be there until June 13 when it had to be replaced ...
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Ars Technica Photo Conte$t: Ready, Aim, Shoot
There is currently one Ars Technica Photo Contest running. Please see below.
“How do I review my own code?”
Every couple weeks, Stack Exchange chops up some of our best Programmers content and sends ...
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Contest refresh suggestion: let's take entries on the *main* site
I'm taking inspiration from @xenoid's answer to Is there any hope for making this site about photography?:
Maybe the weekly contest is a wasted occasion? Instead of adding a picture as an answer to ...
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How to participate in weekly hall of fame contest
Hi I have been watching there is contest going on like hall of fame, winners photos will be displayed on the sites header.
Can anybody help me how to participate inthat contest (if really there is ...
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What happens when there are no submissions for PotW contest?
After 8 days into the 2-week photo contest, Photo Competition 2021-07-19: Inspired by Photography Stack Exchange, there haven't been any submissions. This is a first for the New (2021) PotW contests.
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