Prompt

an animal that is a hybrid crossing of a badger a mushroom and a snake, in a green field --ar 4:3

Theme

This week’s theme is hybrid animals! Anything goes, as long as it’s a mix of an animal and some other organism (humans don’t count :)

Rules:

  • Follow the community’s rules above all else
  • One comment and image per user
  • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
  • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
  • Posts that are tied will both get the points
  • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
  • Down votes will not be counted

Scores

At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

Prize Points
Most upvoted +3 points
Second most upvoted +2 point
Third most upvoted +1 point
OP’s favorite +1 point
Most original +1 point
Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point
Prompt and workflow included +1 point

The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone!

Previous entries

I’m currently enjoying a day out, so I will judge the entries a day later

  • ThelsimOPMEnglish
    2•5 months ago

    Points: 6

    Category Points
    Prompt included 1
    Total 1

    For some reason I keep hearing the Skippy theme song :)

    • @j4k3English
      3•5 months ago

      What do you think it would take to make this vote tally thing automated by a bot? Like ideally one could set up the whole thing to tally, send a few direct messages around and fall back to defaults if there is no reply set within a given amount of time. I’m not criticising anyone here. From my perspective after hosting once, the whole tally and generation of the next challenge is a bit of a drag where automaton and routine would help improve participation IMO.

      • ThelsimOPMEnglish
        5•5 months ago

        Hmmm, I guess it would be possible to take all top-level comments and check if they have an image. Then you collect

        • Username
        • Number of points
        • Text?
        • Timestamp created

        You could determine the points for most upvotes and last two entries. But you still need to give input for prompt included, OP favorite, and original. But just the collecting of the data and putting it in a workable format (csv, json, tsv, etc.) might remove some of the tedium. A second script for converting the filled in CSV to individual markdown comments and possibly posting them, would remove some more annoying work. I’m not so sure what the direct messages would help with though.

        Having done this for 4 or 5 times (I lost count :). These are my main annoyances:

        • Collecting all the users in a nice overview
        • Applying the scores
        • Writing out the markdown tables and scores

        For example, in this round I:

        • collected all the users in an Excel sheet
        • added all the different point categories and the Totals as columns.
        • Filled out the columns per user.
        • Unpivoted the columns to key/value pairs
        • Saved the result as CSV
        • Threw the CSV in ChatGPT and asked it to create markdown tables.
        • Took the list of markdown tables and copy-pasted them as replies for each user, together with a personal message

        It took me more than an hour to do it properly and I guess a lot of it could definitely be automated.

        Anyway, it would make for a fun little project I guess. But I lack the time or skills to do this properly.