*** Unofficial but nevertheless asterisked Photo Contest Rules thread ***

[JeffR]

If anyone has the stomach for it, let's see if we can settle this.

For starters, as CC pointed out the other day, part of the rules text went missing sometime in the last four years. Here's the missing text:

The winner of the contest agrees to host the next month's contest (or recruit someone else to host the contest), and pick the next month's theme. Typically the winners have not been able to enter a photograph in the next contest.

This wording used to appear just before the sentence:

Be sure to read the following before you enter a photograph.

So that's one problem solved.

Now, about frames, here's the poll regnaD kciN posted in November '07: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=280&topic_id=37182

The poll question was: Should frames be allowed in contest entries? 25 people cast a vote, and by 68% to 32%, the consensus was that they shouldn't. That's the nearest thing we have to an "official" group decision on this, but it was never incorporated into the contest rules. I think this needs to be re-litigated in light of there being two framed entries in the current contest, one of which is a runaway favorite already and a lock for the Final round. My guess is that frames might go a little viral in future contests, unless the no-frames folks are still in the majority and the rules are amended to specifically prohibit frames.

Just to complicate matters further, submission size might deserve reconsideration. Seems to me that upping the limits to 1000 pixels in the longest dimension and a file size of 250K wouldn't add greatly to the misery endured by voters with slow connections, and could give entries more "oomph" if they have a lot of fine detail.

Thoughts?