Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
We vote for or against the submission based on some technical aspects. With logo contest on the other hand in many-many cases it's just I like this or I like that. I would be all for the post with I like logo number ## because ... (here some valid points from some points of view - but not because I like colors/size/picture better).
Some valid non-aesthetic reasons might be: it resembles the logo of compnay XXX, or it doesn't adequately represent Boost.
Posting preliminary results bring more attention to the logos currently on top. In my experience, when it comes to selecting based not on some objective parameters but on some subjective preferences, people tend to prefer what they see first, what they are used to or what others preferred.
It was suggested earlier that people should post critiques of the logos here. There is at least one which I objected to but which I didn't bother commenting on because I though it had no chance of being selected. Now that I see some people have voted for it, my criticism might be relevant. Jonathan