This is all been GREAT advice. I want to thank all of your for your well thought out suggestions. I'll try to address all of these ideas here.
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1, make who votes for what public so all can see
2, don't let anyone vote unless they make a comment in the thread about that song, so if someone votes 1 out of 5 or 5/5 they will have to say why,, this will help with any possible fraud votes and also give the poster of the song more feedback.
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I like both of these ideas. I'm all for personal accountability, and I do think that we should all discuss the songs that we rate or vote for.
Unfortunately, both of these would require me to pull out the PHP code and write some mods or pay to have them done. That opens up a pandora's box of cost, time, and who knows what. In an ideal situation, I would use the built in features of this forum script to handle the contest.
When you put it down on paper, is it worth $500 for me to pay someone to write a mod or worth 80 hours of my time to incrementally improve the contest? It's hard to say. With a little thought, I may be able to utilize the current forum without modication.
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3, maybe have a pre selected set of judges of say 20 people instead of a anyone can vote,
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I have to admit that there was a song that on Halloween day that I was my personal favorite but it's rating was low enough for me to raise my eyebrows and wonder if some tampering had been done. A part of me wanted to use my 10 test accounts I have here at RecordingReview.com to jack the score up to what I thought it deserved. I thought about this for about 5 seconds and decided that I do not want a "big brother" / "powers that be" mettling in the natural order of things.
As much as malicious tampering (if it existed at all) bothered me, I couldn't get myself to add my own not-so-malicious tampering to counteract it. (This is consistent with my own political / economic views.)
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i think its a shame that many many realy good songs had real low votes and while the idea of a anyone can vote online vote system is great, in realaty its never quite right for obious reasons.
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I'd love to think that we have a fun, happy community here where everyone takes 2-40hours and wastes it on making a recording for the contest in the spirit of having a good time. People asked me what I would do if I had won the contest and I have to admit that winning never even occured to me. To me, winning was actually writing, tracking, and mixing the song!!!
With that said, I did get outside sponsorship for the contest in an effort to give people motivation to enter. If people are motivated to enter, some people will have motivation to do "whatever it takes" to win.
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Why be able to vote for several songs? It simply tips the scales.
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You are right, but there are some ramifications from this "one vote" concept when it comes to the actual use and "fun" of the contest.
1) If I can only choose one song, I feel that I'd have to listen to them all, try to somehow remember which song was which. Take notes. Etc. It would be a dramatic pain in the ass for me, personally, as an active dude on the site to come up with that one single vote.
2) It seems that this may be a good way of doing it if the selection was narrowed down to 10 songs or something. With 80 songs, few people are going to listen to them all. It's also possible that this one vote could just as easily be cast for the "wrong reasons" as well.
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Submissions are posted... lets say for one to two weeks (of a campaign). Then there would be "Election Day."
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This isn't a bad idea at all!! I like it. It's essentially what I did although I had 2-3 election days simply because of the hours it takes to listen to 80+ songs. I do agree with this concept.
It sounds like I need to put some thought into this before I launch the big Christmas song contest.
Brandon