Photo Contest

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  jsandifer · Member · Jul 17, 2007 at 10:14 pm

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  I would like to host a photo contest on my blog that will have people vote on up to 30 images…is this possible with WordPress?

  Any ideas are much appreciated!

  J

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  timethief · Member · Jul 17, 2007 at 10:32 pm

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  We do not have voting widgets or poll widgets at wordpress.com.

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  mark · Member · Jul 17, 2007 at 10:54 pm

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  If you had comments for each image and had people vote that way, sure, go for it.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 17, 2007 at 11:00 pm

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  Ahhh, of course! Sometimes I can’t see the trees for the forest … lol :)

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  options · Member · Jul 17, 2007 at 11:46 pm

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  just don’t forget to inform your electorate that each comment means a ‘PRO’ vote, if they don’t like any particular image and would like to vote against it, then let’em just go elsewhere in this case.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 17, 2007 at 11:51 pm

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  Or you could suggest graphics or + or – signs as the first item in the comment; then you could just scan through the comments and collect all the ones that are each. Ignore the ones that don’t follow the instruction.

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  options · Member · Jul 18, 2007 at 12:08 am

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  yeah, and periodically you could publish updates on a special contest results page. just provide/still yourself with a pen and paper if there will be a fair amount of votes.

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  neath · Member · Jul 18, 2007 at 12:43 am

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  I have thought of doing something similar in regard to a certain highway interchange (the ultimate photo challenge:P), but am not sure I would want to go through that much trouble. I am not sure even if potential voters would want to go through that much trouble. It sure is nice on message boards to click a vote and see all the results pretty much instantly.

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  options · Member · Jul 18, 2007 at 1:00 am

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  actually, you need a host and something like the ‘Coppermine Photo Gallery’.

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  jsandifer · Member · Jul 18, 2007 at 3:31 am

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  Thanks for the information and ideas!

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  weirdscience · Member · Jul 18, 2007 at 6:29 am

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  isn’t luckypolls format supported here? You could just have all the images and then ‘which image do you vote for? and then 30 options to choose from.