codebrawl/codebrawl — Issue #36: Showing contestant names in the voting period
Author: jeffkreeftmeijer
Created: 2011-10-09 15:49:38+00:00
State: open

When I started working on Codebrawl, I had a bunch of ideas to make sure everything would keep running smoothly. Most of these were wrong and most of them have been changed since. One of my ideas was that the entries should be anonymous until the contest ended to make sure it wouldn't become a popularity contest. This is probably the last one standing.

I've had to jump through quite some hoops to get this working, since I couldn't link to the Gists (which would give away the contestants' names). For example: we're fetching and storing the Gist contents to show them, rather than just including the Gists in the page using the javacript snippet Github provides. Another issue is that the voters can't clone the solutions to have a play with them, since giving out the clone urls would give away the Gists' ids.

What do you think? Would it be better to just give out links to the Gists and allow the voters to clone and play around with the code or do you think this would affect the entry scores?