{"id":135,"date":"2011-09-30T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2011-11-21T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:09:31","slug":"an-idea-for-improving-artprize-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/an-idea-for-improving-artprize-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"An Idea for Improving ArtPrize Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Idea: Check in via mobile at each piece of art you visit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most everyone agrees that the top 10 winners of ArtPrize 2011 are terrible. Why is this? I think it&#8217;s because the voting is so unrestricted. You can vote for anything and as many things as you want to. Heck, there&#8217;s no attempt to even determine whether you&#8217;ve actually seen the exhibit you&#8217;re voting for or against.<\/p>\n<p><em>I think checking in at each exhibit would greatly improve the quality of voting at ArtPrize.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This could be accomplished by a few methods, from simple to more complicated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Typed in code (can be abused by someone posting a list of all codes)<\/li>\n<li>QRCode (can be abused by someone posting a pic of all QRCodes)<\/li>\n<li>QRCode + GPS check<\/li>\n<li>RFID (need special equipment)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then you can do things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your votes are weighted based on how many exhibits you actually visited<\/li>\n<li>Give a maximum number of votes based on how many exhibits were visited (1 for every 10 exhibits)<\/li>\n<li>Restrict voting only to exhibits you&#8217;d actually visited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This would give attendees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A convenient list of the art they&#8217;d seen over the voting period (it&#8217;s hard to search site now)<\/li>\n<li>A short list to help decide what to vote on (if restricted # of votes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Statistics from this could be used to determine things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How big of an effect venue has<\/li>\n<li>Whether the voting window is large enough for people to see everything<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New types of prizes and games also become possible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Souvenir or virtual badge for people who visit 25%, 50%, 75%, 100% of exhibits<\/li>\n<li>Badge for people who visit all of a type of exhibit (paintings, sculpture, etc)<\/li>\n<li>Badge for people who visited everything in a venue<\/li>\n<li>Most raw votes (current)<\/li>\n<li>Highest % of votes by visitors<\/li>\n<li>Most visited exhibit<\/li>\n<li>Most visited venue<\/li>\n<li>Venue-specific prizes like:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Most votes at a venue<\/li>\n<li>Highest % of votes at a venue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 24px;\">So what do you think? Feel free to chime in with your ideas and opinions below.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idea: Check in via mobile at each piece of art you visit Most everyone agrees that the top 10 winners of ArtPrize 2011 are terrible. Why is this? I think it&#8217;s because the voting is so unrestricted. You can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/an-idea-for-improving-artprize-voting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluff","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}