So be sure that if we implement a voting we want to add like you said another “filter” for the (best) designs - just to have an additional view like the “latest comments”, or the tags, or the categories, and also just for one simple reason more: to promote more of your great designs!
Sure we can pick a winner without voting, we even could without showing the entries … but hey, this is OUR project .. you are doing this TOGETHER with us, right? (and we make it this way because we do take care of our brand actually ;)

And of course we can and should also pick some of the designs that the spreadpeople like and discuss them, but in my opinion we can do this here, in the main blog … so I’m still pro-voting and anti-A/B listing even if some of you impress me by the pure number of daily entered designs.

Well, i think if Spreadshirt is holding a logo contest they should be prepared to handle a high rate of submissions.Simple as that.It’s not a “too many submissions” problem but a “not well enough prepared for success” problem really.

All i’m saying is that voting (even a partial one - who decides what the “really bad” designs are ?) is a new way of finding/filtering the right logo in this contest and i’m asking if this would be a wise move in regards of re-braning a company.

“The vote your score gets wont make or break your chances of getting on the shortlist, its just to help filter the designs that are popular community picks.”

As for sloppy, i’d say the contest evolves naturally based on our views and yours. We’re prepared, what we have now works, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be a little smoother which is why we’re exploring these ideas.

I don’t think spreadshirt is proposing a “vote-the-winnger” system. The way I understand it is that they are simply trying to come up with working solutions to the “too-many-submissions” syndrome.

I’m sure you will agree that the submission rate has really picked up and along with it, so has the number of both good and bad designs.

I can definitely see how the high rate of submission can cause difficulties for the Spreadshirt team (who ultimately select the shortlists) to view all the logos.

So, they are coming up with ideas on how to remedy this problem and filter out the really bad designs so they can more easily decide between the good ones. And they’ve been nice enough to share those ideas and ask for our opinion and our vote.

Now, I personally am against the idea of implementing a voting system, simply because I think it’s easy to “influence” the vote. That way the system will no longer function as it was intended.

But I am certainly for the idea of having a “weekly pics” section, a sort of first-level filter done by Spreadshirt to reduce the clutter, and I voted on this post accordingly.

I’d say leave it like it is.Afterall, if Spreadshirt is not prepared for the sheer number of entries, they should figure out a way *they* can handle this.Wouldn’t switching to voting mean a different way for finding the winner logo in comparison to the weeks before ?

Well i’m hopelessly confused anyway about the ways Spreadshirt wants to find its new logo.
Or in other words, how they treat their own brand.

I mean, who will decide in the end on which grounds ? If it will be a panel decision, why suggest voting - if voting will decide, why have a panel ?

And if it should become the voting route, is “design by vote” really the way to go in a rebranding of a business ?

It really surprises me how naive/sloppy the importance of branding seems to be treated here, sorry to have to say.

so adding a category as you said is pretty interesting…but in my opinion, voting is not relevant, again, too many logos, not enough people commenting and voting…for the system to be fair, that’s important that you indicate your own favorites ones…because spreadshirt must have the final word on it, i guess.

see ya