Prompt
an animal that is a hybrid crossing of a badger a mushroom and a snake, in a green field --ar 4:3
Theme
This week’s theme is hybrid animals! Anything goes, as long as it's a mix of an animal and some other organism (humans don't count :)
Rules:
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:
| Prize | Points |
|---|---|
| Most upvoted | +3 points |
| Second most upvoted | +2 point |
| Third most upvoted | +1 point |
| OP’s favorite | +1 point |
| Most original | +1 point |
| Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point |
| Prompt and workflow included | +1 point |
The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone!
I’m currently enjoying a day out, so I will judge the entries a day later
What do you think it would take to make this vote tally thing automated by a bot? Like ideally one could set up the whole thing to tally, send a few direct messages around and fall back to defaults if there is no reply set within a given amount of time. I'm not criticising anyone here. From my perspective after hosting once, the whole tally and generation of the next challenge is a bit of a drag where automaton and routine would help improve participation IMO.
Hmmm, I guess it would be possible to take all top-level comments and check if they have an image. Then you collect
You could determine the points for most upvotes and last two entries. But you still need to give input for prompt included, OP favorite, and original. But just the collecting of the data and putting it in a workable format (csv, json, tsv, etc.) might remove some of the tedium. A second script for converting the filled in CSV to individual markdown comments and possibly posting them, would remove some more annoying work. I'm not so sure what the direct messages would help with though.
Having done this for 4 or 5 times (I lost count :). These are my main annoyances:
For example, in this round I:
It took me more than an hour to do it properly and I guess a lot of it could definitely be automated.
Anyway, it would make for a fun little project I guess. But I lack the time or skills to do this properly.
Cool you managed it :)
Don’t tell anyone, but I’m secretly more capable than I let on ;)