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robax
Posts:6

07/03/2008 9:49 AM  

Hi mike,

I've added a hot-or-not style contect to teh feature votign booth already, but I've just had another style of contest come to mind that I can see myself wanting to run. I'm putting this one here in the forum in case it's already sort of possible with the module.

This is sort of like a caption contest.. just different :)

The idea is to guess what an item is. So.. there is an item of the week/day/month.. and people have to guess what it is. This could be a photo of a rare stamp, a piece of quoted text, or anything really.

The thing is that people's guesses would have to remain hidden from everyone else until the contest is over and the correct answer is selected by the contest owner.

I have yet to actually set this up properly, so maybe it already does this,  but if it doesn't then please consider this type of contest. I think this will be a very useful module in the long run.

Regards,
Rob

digmike
Posts:275

08/04/2008 10:33 PM  
Hi Rob,
My email subscriptions were not turned on for this forum, so I apologize for the late reply. I would set it up like a caption contest. Hiding users votes is not a problem, the problem is that the winner is based on the vote count. We have had another user request the ability to choose the winner of a contest, and this would be a similar thing. The only thing I can think of for now would be to do something like the following:
[con:isclosed]
[ent:hasurl]

entry info
[ent:votecount] users got it right!

[/ent:hasurl]
[ent:hasurl:not]

entry info

[/ent:hasurl:not]
[/con:isclosed]

What you can do is that if the entry has something in the url field (any text can be in the field, you are simply using it as a flag to mark the winner when you add the entry), and the contest has ended, display the item as the winner.

Thanks,
Mike

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