Night Life - Voting now open!

[Cyclone Boom 16,851]

Voting Now Open!

Night Life  (Weekly Challenge #23)
When the sun goes down, sims come out and play.

To vote, view the album below and rate the images as you'd like:

Voting will close on Friday 16th October.

 

Voting Rules

Votes will be cast by rating images inside the album. You may rate any images you wish at any rating value. All votes are anonymous. Try to rate as many as you can as this will help the results ordering. The winner will be the image which ends up first in the album after a 5 day period.

The final rank will be determined by a manual ranking system, currently being finalised. More details soon!
This will be used to announce the results for this challenge, and all previous ones (including Challenge #18, which will be recalculated).

We encourage you to vote on all images, as this will help keep the voting evenly distributed.

 

Winning Rewards

The reputation prizes are as follows:
 

Night Life  (Weekly Challenge #23):

Entries: 10
Prize Fund: 200 Rep
 

1st Place: 100 Rep
2nd Place: 60 Rep
3rd Place: 40 Rep

Prize Fund distribution:
(1st Place = 50%,  2nd Place = 30%,  3rd Place = 20%)
 

Good luck everyone!

 

[jmsepe 2,038]

Dang, I wasn't able to make it to the deadline. I still have final exams till Wednesday.

[Cyclone Boom 16,851]

Dang, I wasn't able to make it to the deadline. I still have final exams till Wednesday.

If you've got time, entries are still open until when voting closes (this Friday).

The more entries, the higher the rep prizes will be. It's just late entries might be at a slight disadvantage with gaining votes.

The new rating system will use a "baseline" figure, which limits the ranking of entries with less votes. I'll post full details of this shortly.

[APSMS 1,892]

can submitters vote?

[Cyclone Boom 16,851]

can submitters vote?

Sure, voting is open to all members of the community. Go for it!

[gviper 922]

can submitters vote?

can submitters vote?

Sure, voting is open to all members of the community. Go for it!

Respectfully, I think this isn't right. Having submitted an image for a contest should be grounds automatically for every participant to forego their opportunity to vote so as not to have a conflict of interest.  We're still members of the community even if we can't vote--we have submitted an image instead.

[TekindusT 3,809]

I think that this goes with the morals of each of us. For example, I submitted a pic, but I'm not voting for anybody. I could perfectly rate my pic 5 stars and give 1 stars to the others, but it would be quite an abuse of the system. I don't know if somebody has done that, though. To avoid this situation, I just don't vote any in the contests I'm taking part on.

I tend to say always that we are here to have fun posting pics and discussing, not to fight each other for ratings and stars and see who got 0.01 points more than the other.

[Cyclone Boom 16,851]

I understand the concerns that participants are allowed to vote. Although it wouldn't be straightforward to disable this option, as it'd require a fair bit of logic.

There is an element of trust involved with these contests. Of course, they're meant to be fun at the end of the day. Problem is, if people are willing to cheat, they'll try and find new ways around, even if a restriction was enforced. For example, using clone accounts to boost one's ratings.

If an entry had a abnormally high number of votes (compared to others), we'd consider disqualifying it from the challenge. However looking at the rating patterns so far, there doesn't seem evidence of this. Most of the contests are decided by very close margins.