First, I must apologize for letting this issue sit for so long. Things have been a bit busy, and since I hate writing, I tend to put these sorts of things off as long as I can.
That said, due to the recent poll results, endless discussions, and continual consideration of the issues at hand, no "across the board" change will be made to the challenge rules. The main reason, I think Konador pointed out, is that we just don't want to risk losing 36% of the voting population due to longer download times and screen resolution issues.
What you can expect, though, since it appears so many people want increased resolutions, is the occassional 720x720 challenge -- be it on top of the regular weekly challenges, on an extra Friday challenge, or mixed into a speed challenge. I think the results of Textures IV were fantastic and the challenge really lended itself to the 720x720 format.
FYI, here are the results of the two polls, broken up by those who participated in the challenge and those who didn't. I was surprised to see all four views so closely knit.
Original Poll
FULL RESULTS - 64% to 36% - Increase limit to 700x700 had 130 votes.
- Increase limit to 800x700 had 136 votes.
- Increase limit to 800x800 had 451 votes.
- No change had 395 votes.
RESULTS PER VOTERS - 66% to 34% - Increase limit to 700x700 had 36 votes.
- Increase limit to 800x700 had 29 votes.
- Increase limit to 800x800 had 107 votes.
- No change had 88 votes.
RESULTS PER SUBMITTERS - 67% to 33% - Increase limit to 700x700 had 37 votes.
- Increase limit to 800x700 had 27 votes.
- Increase limit to 800x800 had 96 votes.
- No change had 79 votes.
RESULTS PER THOSE WHO BOTH VOTED AND SUBMITTED - 67% to 33% - Increase limit to 700x700 had 22 votes.
- Increase limit to 800x700 had 19 votes.
- Increase limit to 800x800 had 58 votes.
- No change had 48 votes.
Latest Poll
FULL RESULTS - 66% to 34% - Yes had 524 votes.
- No had 270 votes.
- Und had 84 votes.
RESULTS PER VOTERS - 64% to 36% - Yes had 161 votes.
- No had 89 votes.
- Und had 28 votes.
RESULTS PER SUBMITTERS - 66% to 34% - Yes had 155 votes.
- No had 81 votes.
- Und had 23 votes.
RESULTS PER THOSE WHO BOTH VOTED AND SUBMITTED - 64% to 36% - Yes had 94 votes.
- No had 53 votes.
- Und had 15 votes.
Thank you for using Members and Registered users feedback as a way of making a site decision. It shows us that our vote counts and that means a lot to us.
Great Work!
Good solution. You see it also affects those who habitually vote because the screen is more managable. Also in saving the bigger files, the resolution allowed is rather minimal to do the larger format justice. I am more for resolution than I am for size.
I was one of the diehards that voted to keep the 640 X 640 image size. Anything much larger than that is cumbersome. However, I would have voted for a 720 X 480.
