Reply to thread

Sorry guys, I've just had other things on this time round. Sometimes I get hit with a great idea for responding to the challenge as soon as it gets posted, and sometimes I don't. I'm having a think about this current one at the moment.

As for the discussion at hand:

Sam, I think what Tom meant about staff being 'excluded from the vote' is that staff are just not allowed to vote, rather than their submissions being excluded altogether. Other people could vote for them. Even if I'm not correct on that, could it be a good compromise?

The structure and anonymity of the challenges is absolutely fine from where I'm standing - it's regular and consistent enough without taking over anyone's life. However, I still personally feel that there is not enough said about them elsewhere on the forum. New members might not even be seeing them, let alone feeling that they are welcome to take part.

It's a regular thing that takes place here, so it deserves a permanent top of the front page spot: 'HEY! Here's this month's challenge! Come and take part!'. I don't know how this can be achieved with the current forum software, but I think it will help a great deal if it can be figured out.

How about a button in the header. Would that be possible? Heck maybe one of the challenges coming up could be 'design a header button for the challenges'.