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Competition: Graphical Answerathon - A picture speaks louder than a thousand answers

Graphical Answerathon v1.0

Building on the success of previous Answerathon competitions, here is a new competition idea which rewards the most visually creative answer. For every competition day (same format as the original Answerathon - 48h, UTC+00:00, etc.) participants should write an answer including a picture that best represents the question scope. The original idea for this competition comes from Gayot Fow.

So here is the question: what does the community (i.e. you) think about this idea?

Rules

Competition Rules

  1. To stay in the competition, you must answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive at least one upvote for your answer. For the purposes of this competition, an unanswered question is any question where no image has been previously submitted in an answer.

  2. The answer must contain a picture, be it a photo, a diagram, a screenshot, a still-frame from a movie, a drawing, a painting, etc.

  3. The pictures must be freely accessible, where the definition of free is this one (the usual StackExchange copyright rules apply to all content posted as part of the competition)

  4. The provenance of the pictures must be stated and linked-to, and the copyright (if any) should be rendered explicit

  5. The image must be unused by other competitors. If two competitors post the same image FGITW (i.e. first one to post it) wins.

  6. Each 'day' will last for 48 hours, and uses the UTC+00:00 time common to all StackExchange sites. Therefore June 1st-2nd inclusive is a day, June 3rd-4th is a day, and so on.

  7. Miss a 'day' and you're out.

Answering Rules

  1. Once the upvote has occurred (and not earlier)), edit the latest answer on this page for the date in question, and someone else can review and confirm.

  2. IF there are no unanswered questions at all (hah), then and only then can you answer a previously-answered question for your 'day'.

  3. IF the question you answer is marked as a duplicate on the same 'day', your answer is invalidated.

  4. IF the question you answered is put on hold by the community on the same 'day', your answer is invalidated.

  5. IF you are part of a previous ongoing Answerathon, and it's still going, you CANNOT use the same answer to enter more than one competition. You'll have to answer a new question for each.

However, please - if we finally hit a day where you can't answer something with a proper answer, i.e. with a citation or evidence or something useful to the author, don't post a weak answer on a question.

Scoring Rules

  1. Competitors (and neutral observers) vote on the answer based upon its quality. The image must be thematically precise, not just any crap image that appears in an image search.
    The image must lend weight to the answer. For example:

Is it possible to visit the Parthenon at night? An image that shows people roaming about the ruins at night wins. Upvote it. An image that shows the Parthenon lit up at night loses because it does not lend weight to the answer. Downvote it. Unlike other competitions, this one has reputation risk to spice things up a bit.

  1. Finally, competitors (and neutral observers) are required to acquit themselves of good sportsmanship and fair play. It might mean upvoting a better answer than yours.
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