Thread: Weisyboy's Pallet Challenge - Entries and Poll for Voting

Originally Posted by kmthor

i wonder if you would feel the same as donater

km

Yes I would.

Ultimately the judges, ie the forum members, decide where the prizes go. not the donaters.

Originally Posted by Big Shed

Yes I would.

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i wouldnt

Ultimately the judge, ie the forum members, decide where the prizes go. not the donaters

BINGO .... therefore a mockery if anyone was deceived

#1 just got another vote.

Can I change mine to #1 too?

A few years ago I worked on a big IT project as a contractor. The managers decided to get a T-shirt made for everyone to mark the end of the project and they decided to have a competition to design a slogan. It was open to all staff and there was a limit of one entry per person. The designs would be stuck up on the wall and each person would be able to select one design as their favourite. The design with the most votes would be used on the T-shirt.

Most of us were quite cynical about things by then because it hadn't been the best project to work on, so there wasn't a lot of enthusiasm for it but I decided to have a bit of fun with it. So I made up four disrespectful designs and put them up on the wall with the serious ones when no-one was looking. I made it very obvious (I thought) that it was a joke. It should have been automatically disqualified because there was more than one design. Needless to say, one of them won.

There was a hue and cry, mostly divided into three camps: 1. the rule followers who demanded it be disqualified on the grounds that it broke the rules by being part of a submission with more than one design; 2. those who felt that it should be disqualified on the grounds that it made a mockery of the serious designs; and 3. those who thought it summed the project up and was a perfect choice.

I was hauled into the manager's office. He more or less told me that, whilst he could see the funny side, he was only allowing it to win because of the overwhelming public vote, but there's no way it would be going on a T-shirt and they would print the design on a coffee mug instead. The T-shirt would have some generic design created by him.

Funny how things like this have a habit of back firing. I never expected to win, I was just expressing my sense of humour. We as Aussies are meant to have a reputation for being larikins, sadly that seems to be disappearing in a wave of conservatism. Oh well, I didn't vote for number 1. And I didn't vote for the plank in the last competition either, but they gave me a laugh and hopefully that is mission accomplished for the creators.

Originally Posted by Wongo

If you couldn't tell that it was joke then you've got problems.

You take that back Wongo, or I will cry!


Strange you did not make any mention of your suspicions in your first review post considering how indignant you are about it now Me thinks you were 'fooled' too and are a bit grumpy about it?
#1 – I don’t really like it but it is because I am not artistic enough to understand it. If you could find the right buyer, the price could go as high as $2,000,000.


Cheers
Michael

Good one Silent.


IF you were in your manager's position then what would you do?

Originally Posted by mic-d

Strange you did not make any mention of your suspicions in your first review post considering how indignant you are about it now Me thinks you were 'fooled' too and are a bit grumpy about it?
#1 – I don’t really like it but it is because I am not artistic enough to understand it. If you could find the right buyer, the price could go as high as $2,000,000.


Cheers
Michael

Micahael, you really do have a problem. But don't worry I can help. Send me your credit details and I'll let you know what to do.

Do you think $2,000,000 for entry 1 is too high?

IF you were in your manager's position then what would you do?

Well, each of us has to make these decisions as and when they come up. He was between a rock and a hard place because on the one hand it was the popular vote, but on the other it broke the rules and there were a lot of testers on the project who faint at the thought of crossing a road when the little man is red. I think he did the smart thing - win-win - that's why he gets paid the big bucks.

I won a $50 gift voucher, so I was happy. Plus everyone got a T-shirt AND a coffee mug because of me.

Originally Posted by Wongo

Micahael, you really do have a problem. But don't worry I can help. Send me your credit details and I'll let you know what to do.

Do you think $2,000,000 for entry 1 is too high?

I can't do that Wongo, I'm clearing my card so I can buy entry5 when it's finished
2M might have been a tad too high given the financial woes, but you never know what turns people on...

Cheers
Michael

My apologies for repeating myself, but in my humble opinion #1 was not a fake and not a joke, it was a tongue in cheek way to say that art is in the eye of the beholder.
Those who feel fooled by it should realise that their vote is actually extremely well deserved for this reason.
Those who felt it was a joke and voted for it to have a dig to everybody else also did so on good reason, from their point of view.
If your criterion is to pick the best furniture maker, you have plenty of tables and stools to choose from. BTW, in my ignorance it appears to me that among these #8 is better made than the others with higher votes, I look forward to discussion later on to explain to me why I am wrong.

A good outcome of this discussion, and as implied by Skew, Underfoot, Wongo etc., is that future challenges of this kind should not be judged as 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. but as best creativity, workmanship, range of skills etc.

PS: after all this, I am now considering whether to be a gentleman and give #1 my vote or give it to myself...

You are not wrong with #8, Frank&Earnest. It deserves a lot more than just 4 votes, much much more.

just put my vote in
I like 3 7 8 & 10 just one

# 1 is coming 3rd. maybe I can make it a shadow of a mug for the prize.

I still think its pretty good. And I still think it is possible it is real.

I think you are wrong.