Change to Anthing-aide judging

They say you learn from your mistakes and for the past few weeks we have learned a hell of a lot about what we are trying to do with adimade.

When Nat and I decided to raided our bank accounts to kick off adimade with a $2000 "user votes" project we never really envisioned that people would go to such an effort to sabotage other videos on the site. It turns out that people will go to great lengths to win a couple of grand (or more to the point help their friends win a couple of grand). In the month and a bit that the Anything-Aide project has been running we have seen a surprising amount of people voting 1 star for what we see as perfectly good video entries. Having spoken to most of the video creators that have entered the project I get the impression that they are not to blame for this but rather friends/family/etc thinking they are helping by low-voting everyone else's videos.

Anyway, after a few emails back and forth with the video creators we have decided to change the judging system for the winning video. Hows its gonna work is like this; Each video creator who has made a clip for the anything-aide project will be asked to rank the top 10 videos they like the best from 1-10 (excluding their own of course). We will tally up the results and the highest scoring video will be awarded the prize money. Basically this means that the winning video will be decided by their piers rather than by the current system.

It sucks that we have to change the rules mid project and under any other circumstances we wouldn't have done this but after speaking with all the video creators the general consensus was that something had to be done to make the project fairer.

So thats the state of play..

Cheers,

Jake.