Judging Deadlines

[Apheraz Lucent]

From the times when Hive started to apply contests, I believe, judges started to delay their results as well. What annoys me is that sometimes, we have to wait a long period of time before a persons remembers there is something he/she needs to do. However, I know that some major problems in real life may occur, but it's simply not fair, right? What I would like to see is a sort of a deadline for judges. We have a deadline to which point you can submit your entrance, or vote for them. Why not a deadline for judging? It can be, let's say, about two weeks or something like that. If a person can't get enough time or it has problems, let him/her drop off the judging.
Comments?

 

[GhostThruster]

Yeah, I agree there should be deadlines. Concept Art Context 5 started months ago and still hasn't been judged.

 

[Kwaliti]

Many of the judges wait for the poll to end as well, which is counterproductive and delays the thing AND the poll results MAY bias the judging results.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Then the poll should be on just a week or two to faster the results?

 

[Lich Prince]

The poll closing date should be the judging deadline imo.

There are some exceptions ofcourse.

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Uhm... Bump?

 

[D a w n]

the problem is: sometimes it is really hard to find a judge at all. :/

 

[Devine]

The problem is: Stop whining. Do you honestly think the judges are going to put all their free time into judging your little competition? If it takes too long, find another judge.

 

[Garfield1337]

The problem is: Stop whining. Do you honestly think the judges are going to put all their free time into judging your little competition? If it takes too long, find another judge.

People shouldn't apply to judge if they don't have time.

 

[Bribe]

I got Spells / Systems Mini Contest done in less than a week, I think a week deadline is more than enough otherwise the judging should move to another judge who has a bit more time on their hands.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

First of all, judges are hard to come by. Not many are willing to judge the contests in the first place. If you're going to put a deadline on it as well, less people will volunteer, because it would put a lot more pressure on them.

Secondly, not all contests are as easy to judge, and some have few entries, while others some have many. For a concept art contest, for instance, the judges have to look around to make sure there is no art theft going on, and also find some way to measure how original the concept really is. There's a lot of research involved. Whilst a spell contest, although I'm not familiar with the criteria, is more of a math thing where you give points for whatever is correct, and deduct points for whatever is bad. You could theoretically make a key for what is right and wrong in such a contest. In an art contest, that's not the case at all. One week to judge 10 artworks is little time. Even a month is little time to judge 10 artworks if you've got a job, or attend school or university. Additionaly, most judges are already moderators, we can't just stop doing work as moderators to make time for judging. Judging is last priority.

Alas, I agree that judging should be faster in most cases, but I don't think this is the right way to achieve that, nor is it fair.

 

[Devine]

People shouldn't apply to judge if they don't have time.

Yes, we should get someone who's dedicated but doesn't know what the hell he's doing.

 

[Skycraft]

Wise man once said: "Don't complain about a free service."

Sure we'd all love the judging to go faster, but not everyone has a lot of free time on their hands and the qualified skills to be able to judge the contest properly. Unless you can magically produce a new solution on how to best approach this situation, I'm happy patiently waiting.

 

[mckill2009]

why not all people here are FREE TO JUDGE and the real judge pick the best explanation as possible?...coz even the map/spells/icons section is full of pending stuffs...

 

[Deleted member 157129]

why not all people here are FREE TO JUDGE and the real judge pick the best explanation as possible?...coz even the map/spells/icons section is full of pending stuffs...

Because not all people here are qualified.

 

[mckill2009]

Because not all people here are qualified.

This...

why not all people here are FREE TO JUDGE and the real judge pick the best explanation as possible?...

 

[fladdermasken]

This...

So in the quite common cases where the experienced judges won't bother doing a hasty and rather sloppy judging, we would settle for a batshit mess written in half l33t, half exclamation marks, just because it was posted on time?

 

[M0rbid]

we are not professionals...

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Throw rep at 'qualified' people?
I'm willing to bet they'd find time to complete judging then.

Some won't care, I know I don't but it does seem to be extremely sought after by most.
Not much just a little incentive, 5 -10 points perhaps.

 

[mckill2009]

hey it's just my suggestion for NOT to wait a long period of time to judge a certain contest/map/spells etc...I think that all people here are not stupid but not so "very" wise in judging/commenting...btw that's why there are polls for a reason...

 

[Deleted member 157129]

This...

My point still remains. See, if a qualified judge was to "judge the judgings done by a judge that is not qualified" it would take the same amount of time as for him to judge it alone. Thus, it would still take just as long, but we'd get poorer judgings.