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Knowing your relative percentile rank doesn't [...] give you any feedback useful to making your submission better next year.

I disagree. It establishes a baseline. "This item I slaved over and think is wonderful, did other people like it" or "This item I slaved over and think is wonderful, did other people think it was utter crap?"

I'm not saying that you -must- release the data, or even that you -should-, given how many other cans of worms it would open up. But knowing how close my tastes run to the voting public's tastes would certainly help when and if I design an item next year. That much, at least, is useful feedback.

Feel free to tell me how narrow-minded I am about how long it takes to judge hundreds of wondrous items in a short period of time. ;)

I'll give you points for the zinger, but my statement stands as written.

It's too bad -- I do want to look over the other submissions, but the information flow you are offering me is a trickle, which changes reading those submissions from "fun" to "not fun." In which case, I'm simply going to decline, with apologies. But who knows? Maybe you'll see me next round.

Just because you can read it in ten seconds (as I can) doesn't mean you've thought about it long enough to properly evaluate it compared to the other item.

I realize you're afraid of spam -- perhaps justifiably so. However, you are being very narrow-minded about both the speed at which other people process information and the method by which they reach decisions. With all due respect, please don't tell me that my 30-second judgments are less than valid, because I have every indication to the contrary.

I will stand by every 30-second judgment I make. But I will [u]not[/u] twiddle my thumbs for another 30 seconds waiting on what feels like an arbitrary countdown. With a one-minute delay, you are losing fast decision makers as judges. On the other hand, maybe you avoid some spam. That's a perfectly valid tradeoff, and it's your call to make, but it is simply wrong to assume that slow decisions are necessarily better than fast ones.

The delay needs to be lowered to 30 seconds. I read quickly, and I make decisions quickly, and watching 30-40 seconds count down on every single entry is tedious. I'm sorry, but I can't judge any more items at one minute per. It's too frustrating.

Ideally, I'd like 20 seconds, but I could be persuaded to come back at 30. If you like the delay, nothing is stopping from using extra time.