Well I was wondering if I could run a photography contest where anyone who wants to enter would put a fee into the pot, relatively small, like 1 FG, and the entered photos would be posted for people to vote on and the winner would get the pot. Anyone know if I would be allowed to do that?

you need a mediator for that, but i dont think u get enough people for it

You'd only need 2 people to try and 3 to vote, so yea... But the mediator I don't have, oh well now I know.

I was going to actually do this and have TheBlackRose help me out with the text of the contest; instead we turned it into a monthly thing, where the winner gets their photo stickied to the top of this forum... so far only one person submitted photos and the month is nearly over.

I would PM any Mod and if they don't know they will most likely forward your PM to the correct one. I pm'd MotherofTwo and she forwarded me on to another mod. I am sure it's quite simple to set up, just maybe a little time consuming. I'd suggest having this contest run for at least a month to get some entries on it.

This post was edited by chantal7 on May 18 2009 08:40pm

Me and Chantal though of this, but, as stated, nobody would do it.

The current contest which has NO fee, doesn't even have 2 entries yet.
And it's been on for a month, and the sticky viewed over 100 times.

There already is one anyways, enter =] You win tons of exposure. FG isn't worth much to some of us here, we're mostly just photographers, not big time gamers.
And to add to it, I don't think the 10Fg (or whatever small amount from the very few who enter) will get them anywhere

sounds like a good idea..

I am that one person who entered, haha...

i was thinking about entering just haven't had any shots i like that fit in the entry reqs

Yeah - same.

Spencer, I would say keep the contests going... it will of course start off slow, maybe 1-3 entries, but that's a start, and maybe next month we'll get 5 entries, and then more later on. I think it just takes time for people to get used to the idea of a monthly photo contest.

there is only like 10-15 people who i'd say frequent this area there a more posting now but they aren't regulary frequenting this section; i'd suspect it will take a while to take off but thats fine i might go out and try and get an entry for this month just so its not as simple as 1 person wins
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does this mean that there is 3 images in the pool for any said user or you just decide on their best and judge against the other's best, imo the rules are a bit vague in wording (maybe not vague but unclear)

This post was edited by SS_avenger on May 19 2009 11:19pm