Well,
A friendly opinion...
Taking away involvement of the members takes some of the fun out of it,
and well, involvement is a good thing, it should be encouraged on a Forum.
It will all probably work fine this new way, I just think that lessening the involvement
and contributions of all the members is something that should thought about.
Tony
Well put Tony, and I agree with you.
An easy solution would be to develop a weighting factor/estimated value indicating the relative importance of each voting group (official judges vs. RKS members). If the EDO Photo Contest is determined to be mainly about "Excellence In Knife Photography," the weighting factor/value for the individual judges (being the experts) could be higher versus the weighting factor/value for RKS members (being the laymen). This would still allow for member participation in the voting.