I have had a brainwave! What if we had a contest where all the regular artists can upload one image under a generic name, and we all have to try and guess which image was done by which person? Not exactly sure how it would be done, I guess we would have to email them to caedes and he could upload them or something, but it would be cool if we could do it!
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
To answer a few q's (this is just the way I pictured it personally): It would not relace the upcoming contest, and I don't think any rules or prizes would be necessary, just for a bit of fun is all. noobguy, I guess anyone could enter, but if the person has only uploaded one or two other images it would be pretty impossible to guess which one was theirs. Haven't heard anything from caedes yet, I think he is busy with other things at the moment. prismmagic, I thought maybe caedes could just put them all in the "etc" gallery, under "Guessing contest" or something. The tricky bit would be figuring out how to upload without the artists name being displayed, but I'm sure he can think of a way.
As for the artists who should be included, I don't think it would work if anyone entered. For instance I would consider myself a regular artists now, I post pictures regularly and i have a good bit of pictures now, but I dont think I would be very good for the contests. I have not posted for a very long time and have high variation in my gallery. I think its a great idea if the artists are chosen well, maybe if you go by the first few pages of the Author List, as that seems to be organized well by who are the most regular artists. You could probably pic up the style of anyone on the first page of the Author List.
Yes, you are right. The number of artists would really need to be limited anyway, it would be too hard if there were more than about ten at a time. We could run several seperate ones though.
I like the idea Samatar. I think that if the decision was made to do this all you would have to do is create a generic name such as "WhoamI". Give the password to the ones that were selected to post. And let it role. And i guess on decding a winner for who guess' all of them right the first. It would just have to be like a pm or a subscription to someone who is in charge. Know for the people to view the images. i guess you would just have to make a post in the discusion board or on the front page with a link to the generic user names gallery. Maybe my idea helps. :)
Sounds like a plan bigjon. I think we will limit each one to eight artists, and all the names will be displayed on each image, so all you have to do is link the name to the image in the comment field. Before we start I guess we should decide who the first 8 will be. Nominations anyone?
Know what should we make the user name. here are some suggestions. whomademe,
whoamI, contest, guess, just a bunch of things thrown out. if anyone else has any just post them.
Oh and i also guess that instead of making a new name for each group on contestants we can either delete the images or move them to the correct persons gallery.
Fun.Very good idea Samatar.
I suggest : Frelu,Cain,Samarn,Johanna,Mayne are some of them.They have a style which can be feeled.
Well if you ask someone whose images are almost impossible to guess because makes every image in a different style.Me of course.I dont have a style. ;) L.O.L.
Okay, I think we should start with the artists that have shown an interest so far; that would be +cc_Beowulf, ::CaptainHero, +WinterNight, mum42, philcUK, mckinleysh, ::Piner, prismmagic, noobguy, ::bigjon, ::Marideath, cemkarahan and +ppigeon. Could all those in this list respond if they want to be involved, once we have eight confirmed we will begin. Anyone who misses the first round will have first dibs on the next (assuming it works).
Mary, in answer to your question, I have a feeling it will be hard enough withhout anyone having to cheat! Everyone should try thier best to make their image as "typical/normal" as possible I think.
I think since several people will be contributing and a standard caedes name can only submit two pictures a day, you may want to make several names, ie: GuessTheArtist1, GuessTheArtist2...
Also the contributing artists should not be allowed to comment on guessing. (they would guess on every pic but they're own ...)
Agree about artists not guessing. As there are only 8 artists, it would only take 4 days to upload all the images, and I would be surprised if they were all ready at the same time anyway. It will be easier having them all under one name I think. I will create the username now, I will call it "Guesstheartist" and PM yourself and Mary the password. I will upload one two, so that makes three so far.
Agreed. I will include these details in the PM so that all the uploads look the same; after they are all done I will go through and number them 1-8, then the artists will have to PM me letting me know who did which number. Then all the "contestants" have to do is match the number to the name.
I will also put all the names of the artists in the description field on each image, to make it easy. People can go the "Guesstheartists" personal gallery to veiw all the images, and leave their guesses on th profile page.
If you know how could you make a like hyperlink that goes straight to guesstheartist gallery. to make it easier otherwise how would you find there gallery.
Also somewhere on the user profile should be placed a link to each of the artists galleries, this gives the user easy access. Maybe you can do this once all of the 8 users are decided. Good luck with all this, great idea.