Voters are important people whose time is valuable, and I’m a bit concerned about the time they spend to decide whom to vote for. For example, I don’t want them to read the very long post I’ve written just to decide whether to vote for it (provided it’s not relevant/interesting for them otherwise). I expect them to have more important things to do with their time. I understand that they are not obliged to read it. But being a voter probably puts some pressure on them to read the forum more than they would otherwise, and that might come at the expense of other work. Also, making voting decisions of this kind can be mentally tiring. And if voters don’t put much energy into it because they are busy with more important stuff, then wrong posts get selected.
Speaking as one of the judges, I read a lot of the forum anyway because I find a broad selection of content to be relevant/interesting, and I find judging to be a trivial additional time burden (maybe ~10min a month).
I guess another thing to watch out for is whether the prize consistently creates controversies like the one in the thread above. If it does, then maybe the prize is more distracting than useful.
I didn’t think that far, I just expressed a concerned. But no one said it requires a significant time investment and Peter said the opposite, so maybe there is no problem :)
Voters are important people whose time is valuable, and I’m a bit concerned about the time they spend to decide whom to vote for. For example, I don’t want them to read the very long post I’ve written just to decide whether to vote for it (provided it’s not relevant/interesting for them otherwise). I expect them to have more important things to do with their time. I understand that they are not obliged to read it. But being a voter probably puts some pressure on them to read the forum more than they would otherwise, and that might come at the expense of other work. Also, making voting decisions of this kind can be mentally tiring. And if voters don’t put much energy into it because they are busy with more important stuff, then wrong posts get selected.
Speaking as one of the judges, I read a lot of the forum anyway because I find a broad selection of content to be relevant/interesting, and I find judging to be a trivial additional time burden (maybe ~10min a month).
Do you think of this as an argument against the existence of the Prize? Do you like the Prize, but think we should have a different voting system?
I guess another thing to watch out for is whether the prize consistently creates controversies like the one in the thread above. If it does, then maybe the prize is more distracting than useful.
I didn’t think that far, I just expressed a concerned. But no one said it requires a significant time investment and Peter said the opposite, so maybe there is no problem :)