[Shelley_c]

It's going to take more than some silly competition to get coders and designers to get even more motivated/encouraged to submit more. I think staff resources being stretched to hold competitions is a bad idea when they could be working on the database.

Designers? I don't think .org staff acknowledges designers. infact, I'm sure the staff would love to have us submit more, even though more work has been enforced on contributors because of the new layout of the database. that said, competitions aren't the solution, staff working on a solution (esp to the graphic database) is a nice solution for starters.

Competitions are only a temporary solution, it will keep the average member/contributer here for so long before they really see the problems here and the lack of progress being made. what then? after they contributed for 3 months they stop support, packup and leave?

Why do you think most of the contributers have left? Such a great community, pity certain areas are wasted and go ignored.