Wardrobe Contest: New voting methods and more control for creators New Feature

New Feature: more ways to run a wardrobe contest.
When you host a contest, you can now:

  • Let voters rank their top 3 or top 5 looks instead of judging two at a time. A 1st pick is worth the most points, and the most points wins. Names stay hidden until the results.

  • Pick "I'll choose" to place the winners yourself, one look for each prize place.

  • Charge an entry fee. Each entry adds its fee to the prize pool, and if nobody wins, everyone gets their fee back.

  • Seal the runway, so entries stay hidden until voting starts. Each entrant can still see their own.

  • Name a Host's pick during voting, with an optional sP prize. It shows with the results.

  • Add a finals round to a head-to-head contest. The top 10 looks get one more day of top 3 picks voting.


Improvement: more control over your contest entries.
  • You can withdraw your own entry while a contest is still taking entries.

  • Hosts can send an entry back with a note about what to change. You'll get an event with the note, and you can enter again until entries close.

  • Entries can have a caption of up to 140 characters. It shows when someone opens your look.

  • Each look on the runway shows when it was entered.

  • Item prizes now show on the contest page, so you can see what you're playing for.

  • Setting up a contest takes three pages instead of four.

Rogue
Thank you! Definitely going to try these out :D
Blythe
Thank you for these updates! I hosted a contest based on a subreddit and I'm guessing that the people who voted the most didn't understand the assignment, because they voted in winners who didn't understand the assignment. Having seen that happen, I'll definitely be utilizing some of these options next time.
springblom
Love it! Many of these things I've been hoping/asking for and I'm so pleased! The only thing I still hope for is...a way to edit the description. Maybe I'm blind, but twice I've made code/typo errors and wanted to quickly fix that but couldn't without deleting and starting over. Can't wait to experiment with this!
hipster
Cool, I like the sound of all of this!

Is there a way to allow edits of an entered outfit before the contest goes to voting, then lock edits once voting begins? I keep running into situations where I get an outfit to a point I think I'm happy with, enter it, then realize one small tweak improves it. It'd be nice to be able to just change it instead of saving a new copy and swapping it out.
MEAN
love these, thank you
Brinny
Great changes!
Witch
hell yea, great updates!
Hawke
Love these updates! Much more incentive for me to dust off my old contest hosting hat~

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