I guess that some kind of Management By Delegation should be possible. Maybe vroom could delegate this task to a friar or abbot who gets to decide the "winners".
I don't know much about the demographics of the monastery, so I don't know how many friars and abbots we have that don't already have administrative tasks to fulfill, maybe even some monks could take this job.
I don't think that additional structural changes in the engine would be necessary at the start, these dedicated sisters and brothers could simply /MSG or email vroom their decisions (if we want delegation to work, these persons must have some power, so it's decisions and not proposals :)).
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I guess that some kind of Management By Delegation should be possible. Maybe vroom could delegate this task to a friar or abbot who gets to decide the
"winners".
Why bother declaring a winner? People will vote up entries they particularly like, and the "winners" will be obvious. Take the recent spate of Chatterbox clients. At least three of us were writing some at the same time, and others modified our versions. It quickly became obvious that ZZamboni was the "winner", but I like to think that other (read: my) versions were useful.
I'm not trying to get all happy-feely-why-can't-we-all-win, but I don't think there is a need to delegate responsibility to anyone on this.
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>I don't know much about the demographics of the monastery,
>so I don't know how many friars and abbots we have that
>don't already have administrative tasks to fulfill, maybe
>even some monks could take this job
Don't forget about the bishops, pontiffs, and saints! We
have a couple of the former, a couple of the latter, but no
pontiffs yet...
I personally think something like the POTM contest
would be great. I think we approched something in that spirit
with the Mad Libs posting spree (spread over many nodes -
sorry no links right now). Maybe have multiple awards, such
as Most Efficient (i.e. fastest), Most Elegant, Shortest,
and Most Obfuscated. Bonus points for winning more than
one award for the same program. :)
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