(Discussion) Best Bitcointalk Interview

[zasad@]

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[Vote 2020] Best Bitcointalk Interview

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[LoyceV]

One of the voting participants will receive $ 50 in BTC

The winner post number will be calculated using the formula:
2 + interview number of the 1st place
If the winner post number is absent, due to the small number of votes, the award is not paid.
Please vote!

Suggestion: change this, it can be gamed! The only way to win $50 is by voting on a certain candidate, or waiting until the right moment. If I'd want to vote now, I'd have to vote BlackHatCointer for any chance to win.
A random selection based on for instance a certain Bitcoin block solves this.

[LoyceV]

Your suggestion to use "Bitcoin block" for selection  the winners is seems to be the best approach to find those who get rewards.

That's not what I said. I suggest this only for the $50 voting prize winner.

[zasad@]

Your suggestion to use "Bitcoin block" for selection  the winners is seems to be the best approach to find those who get rewards.

That's not what I said. I suggest this only for the $50 voting prize winner.

I thought about it, but I got the idea that if I did so, then I could be accused of mistrust of the forum participants.
If you have an offer and are ready to pick a winner, post it, I will add these terms to the rules and give my $ 50 to the winner.

[LoyceV]

I could be accused of mistrust of the forum participants.

You shouldn't trust all users

If you have an offer and are ready to pick a winner, post it, I will add these terms to the rules

How about this: After locking the topic on December 16, you post a numbered list (start with number 0, not 1) of qualifying candidates and a winning Bitcoin block 12 blocks in the future. Don't edit that post anymore.
When that block is mined, and let's take block 659343 as an example, you take the hash:
00000000000000000009a4f6f21e40f4c24eb7d0d17be6f35166c894ed93cccf
From this, you take all numbers: 00000000000000000009462140424701763516689493, then for convenience the last 9 digits only: 516689493.
Say the list is:

Code:

0. userA
1. userB
2. userC
....
69. userBQ

To get the winner, you divide 516689493 by 70 (one more than 69) and take the remainder: 33. User #33 on the list wins.

[zasad@]

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[Marvelman]

So we have Jr. Member interviews but they are not allowed to vote? Why is that?

[zasad@]

So we have Jr. Member interviews but they are not allowed to vote? Why is that?

Thanks for the question. Voting option added.
"Other ranks are allowed to vote if they have received 10 merits"

I hope you vote for the best interview.

[LTU_btc]

I think it's great idea. There is quite many great interviews which were very interesting to read, so, why not to award them. Thanks to BestChange for sponsoring it.
Now I can't remember which interviews were best, so I will get through these over 20 pages and will leave my vote.

[Csmiami]

Considering some users are still submitting their interviews, will a change of vote be allowed in the event of wanting to do so?

[Marvelman]

I hope you vote for the best interview.

Great! Thank you. You may rest easy on that one.
Only to read a few more at least ...


I almost forgot. Thanks for sponsoring this, @BestChange!

[zasad@]

Considering some users are still submitting their interviews, will a change of vote be allowed in the event of wanting to do so?

The rules do not prohibit changing the vote.

So, are there two voting rewards now or the new one is substitute to the old? If there are two then I would suggest you to follow LoyceV's alternative for picking both rewards. '2+interview' number doesn't make any sense especially when there is already a potential winner leading by big margin and people can easily ascertain the winner. If you think replying to my post will derail the thread, quote me in DISCUSSION thread.

These are 2 different awards.
We will certainly discuss this proposal.
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2 additional rewards of $ 50 each will be drawn using a random method (hashes 1 and 2 of blocks from December 17, 2020 will be used)
Please take part in voting!

[LoyceV]

I'm taking this quote from the voting topic here:

The "public vote" should go to the interview with most merit. Period.

This would give the users who posted the interview by themselves an advantage. I Merited those a lot more than the interviews posted by zasad@.

[Rikafip]

@CryptopreneurBrainboss Is it really necessary to award everyone that votes for your interview with merit? I fully understand that you can do with your merit whatever you want, but imho that's not the best use of merit you got as a merit source. Rest assured, there will be people who will vote for you only based on that, as that's what people do when they see chance for an easy merit.

As a matter of fact you are doing the same thing in that Community awards thing, and also ain't cool at all.

[cryptofrka]

I support him giving merits to all people who vote for that interview.

It's really the easiest way to filter all the spineless members, I would not vote for it for 500 merits.

I like to see what democracy brings, it feels like elections. Free buts for some bagels.

[dkbit98]

What do you think is the right price for voting fraud in bitcointalk forum?

Maybe few merits, secured place in bounty campaign, few bucks or maybe giving positive trust feedback and scratching someone back?

This is abuse and voting fraud, and I wonder can member like this still be on Default Trust and be winner-elect for one of the worst interviews I have read

[marlboroza]

^ Calm down you two, it is perfectly fine for merit source to give merits to his "fan club" and rig whole elections for few bucks 
May I suggest OP to not count votes from users who received merits for their votes, or, much better solution, just kick "Bob" out of election.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

@CryptopreneurBrainboss Is it really necessary to award everyone that votes for your interview with merit?

Thanks for calling my attention, never thought of it that way but I get the point your are making and for transparency I'll resits the urge to do so on both thread. Never knew 1 or 2 merits could cause such harm as I have seen users who have earned a decent amount of merit still give me their votes meaning my merits haven't got anything to do with their decision (on both threads you speak off). I have seen users doing the same as some act of appreciation and just followed without having a second thought.

Be rest assured my actioned had no ill intentions behind it. I won't mind getting punished if the organizers feel that's the best thing to do and also I want to use this opportunity to bring to the awareness of users begging for votes in local board. Yeah I got notification because I was tagged in the replies and fortunately I got my translators always turned on.

I support the best interview to win it all and not popularity, personally I haven't voted because I took it upon myself to to read through the interview again and not get influence by people choices. Thought this could be the reason behind the votes

CryptopreneurBrainboss went from an airdrop participant to a legendary member with 1500 earned merits and a campaign manager. There are sooo many good interviews, unfortunately, I can only pick one.    

[cryptofrka]

^ Calm down you two, it is perfectly fine for merit source to give merits to his "fan club" and rig whole elections for few bucks 
May I suggest OP to not count votes from users who received merits for their votes, or, much better solution, just kick "Bob" out of election.

Nah, I'm perfectly calm about this. It's basic human nature, I saw it too many times already for it to bother me.

If the forum decides by a democratic vote that his interview deserves the prize, I say give it to him. This place is more rotten than we give it credit, so let's just roll with it. This will be just another proof that we really don't deserve a better society than the one we've got.

Fun little experiment, though.

[LoyceV]

Thanks for calling my attention, never thought of it that way but I get the point your are making and for transparency I'll resits the urge to do so on both thread. Never knew 1 or 2 merits could cause such harm

I just checked your Merit history and it shows 55 Merit transactions in "Bitcointalk Community Awards [Voting 2020]" and 21 Merit transactions in "[Vote 2020] Best Bitcointalk Interview". I don't have the time to check all posts now, but if you're only Meriting users who vote for you, that's bad

Any idea why nobody voted for you in the first 2.5 days, but you got 21 votes in less than 2 days after that?

I'm quite easy giving Merit, and often Merit posts just because they're "not spam" or "worth reading".
But I can't think of any valid reason why this gets Merited:

Code:

CryptopreneurBrainboss

And this doesn't get Merited:

Code:

gmaxwell

I really enjoyed gmaxwell interview but my vote goes to:

I really like the voting system but my vote goes to

Coincidence?