Re: Digest Logo Contest

["Frank Massaro" <fmarch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Digest,  Happy New Year!

Bobby and I have traded a couple e-mails about this topic of late.

The reason I suggested two rounds of voting is that it will be difficult to
obtain a genuine consensus based on +/- 45 entires.

Some entries are so similar to one another, it'd be more representative to
call them 'variations on a theme', rather than 'entries'.  It would almost
help folks like Jake, and one other individual (sorry, your name escapes me
right now) to have *all* y'alls entries considered as *one* entry.

The multiplicity of entries in these cases will subtract from the vote count
for these guys, imo,  and all the hard work will be diluted similarly...no
one wants that to happen.  (well, I want that $250, but not at the expense
of someone else's fair chance, ya know...)

We also need a way to keep the voting 'honest'.  What's to keep me (or
anyone) from telling everyone I know and their brother to visit Bobby's page
and vote on my entry(ies).  The voting should be limited to:

- -Those who were members of the BMW Digest/ Mailing List as on 1/1/99.

Any ideas from y'all on how to keep this honest?

In voting on/ selecting a prospective logo, we also need to consider cost
and reproducability/ production issues.  Unless we each want to pay $10 for
a sticker, I suggest simpler is better.

Thanks to Bobby for all his hard work on the logo contest!  Public service
is a ball, eh?  (memories of PizzaFest 2 coming back...)

Frank Massaro
BMW CCA Tarheel/ NCC

'92 325is <for sale
'88 M3
'83 533i

ISOP/ PF2
ARMCO <details coming soon!  Don't miss out on this ground floor opportunity
to harass all US E36 M car owners

*Vote Kathy Lyle for BMW CCA Treasurer*
*Vote for my Digest Logo entries*

>Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:05:49 -0600
>From: "Bobby Crumpley" <bobnjoan@domain.elided>
>Subject: Logo Contest Update and a Question

>Midnight, January 7th will be the deadline for entering logos in the
>contest.  At that time the voting will begin via email.  The email button
>on
>the bottom of the web page will send your vote to Chris Brennan, the
>generous soul offering up the $250 to the winner.  Frank Massaro >made an
>excellent point that a single round of voting will probably not be the
>best
>way to go about it.  Therefore, the plan is to have two rounds, each
>lasting
>a week.  The second round will consist of the top 6 vote getters, >returned
>to their original size.  Does this sound like the best way to do it?  Is 6
a
>good number to narrow it down to?  I know it's not possible to please
>everybody, but I want to make sure to do it the fairest and best way
>possible.  Any comments and/or suggestions will be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
> Bobby Crumpley
> BMWCCA

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