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by **MHD** on Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:48 am

Not only will it be hard to choose you will only have two full days to decide..

Voting will open on Tuesday morning and close wednesday night at 10pm...

So please ensure if you want to vote (same elidgability conditions as entry, 5+ posts and mujst have sensible local in profile) you are registered (NO NEED TO RE_RERGISTER, if you have a username d70USERNAME at http://potofgrass.ath.cx/gallery you are all good)

REGISTERING:
PM me
*d70YOURUSERNAMEONTHESEFORUMS
*Prefered name
*email address to send temp passwd
and do it soon... All care no responsibility taken if you miss your vote

Enjoy these pics... this comp is raising the bar IMHO

by **rokkstar** on Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:13 pm

Helloa

As I've not participated in these before can you tell me how I vote?
I.e. How many votes do I have?
Can I vote for myself? :lol:

Cheers
Matt

by **Oneputt** on Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:36 pm

I have tried several times and the link does not appear to be working. :cry:

by **MHD** on Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:44 pm

site is down... read the Gallery open thread...

Yes you can vote for yourself (think of it as a bonus poijnt for entereing... I suggest contestants give them selves full marks)... You can give each image a score... not voting for a particular image does not invalidate your vote but it is recommended you give each image a score as your vote DOES count as the differences between places comes down to very small marks!!

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:03 am

Voting is open...

The site will be up and down (well more down) until noon when thiings should improve...

by **rokkstar** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:06 am

Hello there, I think I might be missing something but how does one actually vote?
I cant see any "Click here to vote" links. I think I might be a wee bit simple.

Matt

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:53 am

have you got an account on my gallery page?
Once you log in you should have the option to vote

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:59 am

How to vote:
1: Go to http://potofgrass.ath.cx/gallery/challenge3/
2:click logon
3: enter username and password from me
4: You have two ways to vote:
4a: Click on image to view medium, select a score (equivelent to 1-10) and once score is selected it is counted
4b: On the thumbnail view page select scores for all on the page and press VOTE for your votes to be counted, you must do this once per page (ie click VOTE before going to the next page)

You can change your vote! My procedure is to go give rough scores first and then at my leasure scrutise closer and change accordingly

by **sirhc55** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:11 am

Don’t know about anyone else but I can’t get into the site at all :cry:

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:28 am

seems to be slightly stabler now..

Some people have managed to vote... we may be coming out of the woods...

by **Oneputt** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:29 am

Likewise Chris I have been unable to get in to vote. I have been able to view the entries.

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:30 am

You need to log in... (read first post in this thread on how to get a log in if you have not got one)

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:34 am

yep... apears to be up and stable for the last 10 minutes...

vote! vote! vote!

by **Flyer** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:28 am

Works great for me.

Votes cast.
Few more excellent pictures in this round.
Good luck everyone.

Cheers.

by **xerubus** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:30 am

MHD... it works a treat... thankyou....

amazing shots.... the bar is getting higher and higher...

cheers

by **PlatinumWeaver** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:32 am

operation timed out - 10:32am

by **xerubus** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:36 am

PlatinumWeaver wrote:operation timed out - 10:32am

thanks for the heads up... it's 0935 here in beautiful Qld... so i'll prepare myself for an hours time :lol:

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:45 am

how's it looking now?

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:46 am

btw 0.05 marks are seperating 1st and second... as I said, every vote counts

by **PlatinumWeaver** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:47 am

no good on this end... could be my connection I suppose..

by **xerubus** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:51 am

MHD wrote:how's it looking now?

working fine for me...

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:52 am

your DNS server might be have the old IP
can you see 150.203.236.6?

by **PlatinumWeaver** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:05 am

That must've been it.. got in now..

Compositions of more than one image are not allowed, right?

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 11:11 am

exactly right!!
And no, that image is allowed... I have chatted with the owner and he explained the way he did it and it is well within the rules...

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:10 pm

Awesome... Site is definitely up and stable now..
Voting is proceeding well!
each image has at least 10 votes and only ~1 point separates 1st and 5th!

Now that things are running smoothly I will restate that the cut off time will be 10pm tomorrow night!

Winner will be announced Friday night at Melbourne meet dinner and shortly afterwards on the forums and potofgrass

Not meaning to diminish the excellent entries in the past comps but this comp has raised the bar somewhat!

by **stubbsy** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:18 pm

MHD

Sorry to rain on your parade, but I've been trying since about 11:00 am on and off with no success. Just tried now at 12:17 and still get "Cannot find server or DNS error"

Edit: But I can successfully ping 150.203.236.6

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:21 pm

can you refresh your DNS settings..

The DNS changed last night (was 150.203.236.86 now 150.203.236.6 and static finally)

by **stubbsy** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:22 pm

MHD wrote:can you refresh your DNS settings..

The DNS changed last night (was 150.203.236.86 now 150.203.236.6 and static finally)

I was afraid I'd get asked that. Don't know how :oops:

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:24 pm

in windows neither do I

try disconnecting your connection then connecting again...

by **stubbsy** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:30 pm

restarted my router. no joy. My ISP is netspace. I have an aweful feeling that DNS records are resolved at the ISP. In which case I need to wait until they get fixed at netspace (which is a time based process I think)

by **Nnnnsic** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:57 pm

DNS records at ISPs usually get updated in a 24 hour time period, Stubbsy.

by **Glen** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:12 pm

Stubbsy just stick the address in the address block up top and it will go there. Dont worry about using pot of grass/etc

150.203.236.6

Is the address I just stuck in with nothing else and ended up on the front page of Scott's (MHD) website. Hope this helps or maybe I misunderstood the problem. :wink:

by **PlatinumWeaver** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:13 pm

Just point your browser to the new DNS entry..
http://150.whatever

Worked for me

by **Nnnnsic** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:26 pm

Just don't click on that link that Dean just posted.

by **JordanP** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:06 pm

How hard is it to separate some of the great images in this comp? No matter how it pans out - well done to all who put an entry in. There are alot of well thought out and well captured images in this lot.

The theme was a bit mean but I love the variety of ways it has been inturpreted. Every entry is a winner in my books.

by **Glen** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:14 pm

Craig, I agree with you, there is a lot of thought in these images. Great effort by all. I think your topic was very good :wink:

by **Oneputt** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:06 pm

I keep getting timed out and am unable to visit the gallery :cry:

by **Glen** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:12 pm

Oneputt, you probably have a dns which hasn't been updated.

try copying this 150.203.236.6 into your address bar, should get you to the front page of Scotts website

by **Oneputt** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:50 pm

I must be a dummy :oops:

but I have given up trying to vote. There has to be an easier way to do this, and when this challenge is over I will suggest a way whcih has worked on another forum.

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:57 pm

This time is an exception....

It should be working fine now... each image has an average of 17 votes now (still to close to call!!!)

by **xerubus** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:06 pm

MHD wrote:This time is an exception....

It should be working fine now... each image has an average of 17 votes now (still to close to call!!!)

the suspence with these comps is unbearable... i'm going to sleep

by **Glen** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:08 pm

Oneputt, just worked for me

by **MHD** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:10 pm

heheh.... for a while 1st and second were tied

by **wile_E** on Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:16 pm

Oneputt, just worked for me

Ditto (although I had to remember to login from the D70 gallery's page, and not the challenge.

Also, I'd like to thank MHD for all the effort he has been to - given the systems issues he has been facing (as well as his patience with me setting up my account/password etc etc)!

by **Oneputt** on Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:41 am

Yes please don't get the wrong idea I know a lot of work has gone in to setting this up and it is certainly appreciated. However I run a similar comp on another non photographic forum and there is a very easy way to do it. If some one is interested they can PM me their email address and I will tell how. It will cut down on the amount of work.

by **MHD** on Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:43 pm

2hrs 40mins to go

Great voter turnout guys! average of 30 votes!

Still REAL close, 0.5 points separates 1st and 4th

What a great comp this has been!

by **xerubus** on Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:49 pm

wow!! this has to be the closest we've had yet....

by **Nnnnsic** on Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:30 pm

That wouldn't be hard.

It's our second comp.

by **xerubus** on Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:32 pm

Nnnnsic wrote:That wouldn't be hard.

It's our second comp.

exactly

by **yeocsa** on Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:25 pm

Just wondering - can we see the scores?

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