Ladies and gentlemen,
For this year's event we decided to take into account the feedback received from various users, at the previous two similar events, and apply some
fine-tuning to the existent rules. Additionally there will also be some new rules. All these will -- we hope -- bring even more accurate results!
Therefore,
the following changes will apply for Bitcointalk Community Awards event 2022 edition:
1. Votes for inactive users will not be taken into consideration anymore. The event is related to the activity made by users during current year and not for the past. As a consequence, votes for users like Satoshi, Lauda etc. (with all due respect for all good things they did
in the past) will not be counted. Of course, this does not mean that a user's vote will be entirely not counted, if he nominates an inactive user. Only the vote for the inactive user is not counted.
As a sum-up: if a user makes nominations of both active users and inactive ones, only the mentions of inactive ones will be not counted (in the contest's final results there will be no Satoshi, no Lauda etc.).
2. No merit sending is allowed from nominees to users which nominated them. This should improve dramatically the accuracy of results and offenders will have to support a penalty. For each merit sent, 1 vote is deducted. So for example, if in the voting topic Alice sent 5 merits to those who nominated her in any category, then we will not count these votes (but the rest of the votes that are addressed to other nominees will be taken into account). In addition, if a user voted for Alice in two categories, then the votes for each of the categories will be unaccounted for.
3. Eligibility-wise, the earlier rule
You must have 50 merit or be a
full member or higher to vote ➥
Note.
will be changed to
You must have 50 earned merits to vote ➥
Note.
Remember, the contest is about
having fun, not a duel for seeing
who's da baws Therefore, we are encouraging you all to act honest -- in the end, this is what brings the joy of participation, right?
Cheers to all
We were also curious about how users feel about implementing a rule which would give chances to more people to win. What we were thinking about is the following: to arrange things thus the winner of a category cannot be the same person from previous contests. Or he can be, as this does not mean a ban -- but he can be with more efforts. To be more precise, all previous winners could start with a coefficient of 0.8. Attention! -- this happens only regarding the previously won category!
For example: Alice won last year in the ScamBuster category.
- For other categories, her vote strength is 1.
- For the ScamBuster category, the power of the votes given for it is 0.8.
If even with this 0.8 vote strength Alice is still this year's winner of ScamBuster category, then she will be declared winner again, no matter what.
This rule, if it'll be adopted, may add some variety. Please let us know your opinions.
It must be GazetaBitcoin 😉
You guessed well
Something is not right. The merit suckers will not going to have a good time in the season 🤣
=)))
I'll take this as a compliment! Thank you for trusting my immutable attitude toward respecting the rules -- and also, toward
the spirit of the rules!