Respect, Respect, Respect Respect, Respect. We are all here to have a bit of fun, create some thinktanks and try to win some trophies. We expect that everyone treats each other with the respect in which they would like to be treated. We have a zero tolerance policy to disrespectful behavior so, before you post anything, have a think about how others may perceive it.
Facilitator Guidelines
Creating a challenge and being the facilitator is one of the most important roles to the ongoing success of CrowdThinkTank.com. Follow these simple guidelines and your challenge will be an enjoyable experience for all involved.
Clear and concise deliverables: Clearly define exactly what you want out of the challenge as most people at CrowdThinkTank aren’t mind readers so would prefer you clearly identify the deliverables you need.
Realistic expectations: Everybody likes to get something for free but at CrowdThinkTank it has been proven time and time again that nothing is free these days and you get what you pay for. So be a realist when deciding how much to award for each trophy.
Feedback: Early and regular feedback will help ensure your challenge heads in the right direction from the outset. Thinkers go out of their way to submit concepts to your challenge, it is therefore expected that you will give feedback for each and every concept submitted.
Honesty: At the end of the day everyone understands that there are a limited number of trophies to go around, promote the concepts you like but more importantly let the others know politely that their concept isn’t what you are looking for. The importance of being honest about the concepts you don’t like, is that it will promote ideas generation away from the current concepts.
Small Changes: As much as it sounds like a good idea to request small changes, this can take a lot of the Thinkers time for no reward if they aren’t selected for a trophy. What we suggest is that you leave all small changes until near the end of the challenge when you have narrowed the selection down to a couple of favorites.
Seek advice from reviewers: We offer the ability for you to nominate reviewers to help decide on the best concepts. Work colleagues, friends and family are often good choices for reviewers but don’t forget other members of CrowdThinkTank may also be willing to help you out. If you do ask a reviewer to help you out, take their opinion into consideration when making the final decisions as it has been proven that small teams with up to seven members can make smarter decisions as a group than one person can by themselves.
Reviewer Guidelines
Being nominated by the facilitator to be a reviewer should be treated with the highest integrity. Being a reviewer for a challenge and helping narrow down the list of concepts to a select few and ultimately selecting the best one is an important role and takes a great deal of teamwork to achieve. The following is a couple of guidelines which we believe apply to reviewers and results in an enjoyable experience for all involved
Respect the facilitator: the facilitator has kindly asked you to help out and obviously respects your opinion. It must be remembered the final decisions are made by facilitator based on your feedback as well as feedback from other reviewers, so don’t feel left out if the facilitator doesn’t agree and decide 100% with your opinion.
Feedback: Early and regular feedback will help ensure the challenge heads in the right direction from the outset. Thinkers go out of their way to submit concepts to the challenge, it is therefore expected that you will give feedback for each and every concept submitted.
Honesty: At the end of the day everyone understands that there are a limited number of trophies to go around, promote the concepts you like but more importantly let the others know politely that their concept isn’t what you are looking for. The importance of being honest about the concepts you don’t like, is that it will promote ideas generation away from the current concepts.
Thinker & Contributor Guidelines
Before we get started with the Thinker guidelines we want to thank you for your ongoing contributions to the CrowdThinkTank community, without your support we wouldn’t exist today. As you are probably aware, the type of website which CrowdThinkTank is relies heavily on people like yourself to come up with creative and innovative ideas to solve challenges. We understand a lot of time and effort goes into developing these concepts of which many are never chosen. To try and offset this imbalance we have introduced the ability for you to nominate the price for concepts submitted to Free Trial and Project type challenges. The following are a few guidelines which we believe contribute to an enjoyable experience for all involved.
Read the description carefully: We stress to the challenge facilitator the importance of ensuring all their requirements are clearly outlined in the challenge description. So please read it carefully and make sure your concept cover what is asked for. If the description isn’t clear, then other thinkers are also in a similar situation, so ask the facilitator to clarify. Don’t forget to check back periodically for any updates which the facilitator may have included, as sometimes it becomes clearer to the facilitator over the duration of the challenge as to what they are looking for.
Communication: We offer many different ways to communicate with the facilitator, reviewers and other thinkers, so before you rush out and start posting comments, think about the image you are trying to portray.
Copyright / IP: We have a zero tolerance to copyright / IP infringement, if it is reported or believed you are violating someone else’s right, we will remove your concepts and report you to the appropriate authorities if deemed appropriate, simple as that. So before you submit, make sure you own the rights to distribute and haven’t stolen the idea from a similar concept. If you think your concept may infringe on another, the safest thing to do is to not submit it or to change yours such that it is no longer an issue.
