🎃 Pumpkin Carving Contest -Poll- Vote Now 🎃

[ChiBitCTy]

1) KrispyKrypto	2) JanEmil	3) xSlyy	4) xsyren	5) Shaha98
6) LDL	7) salad daging	８) taufik123	9) aoluain	10) nara1892
11) Rigon	12) Dubaian	13) BigBos	14) smartaction	15) m2017
16) cygan	17) badlam	18) ajiz138	19) rojan	20) polymerbit
21) henkcryptotank	22) GigaBit	23) kamvreto	24) Altryist	25) Ryu_Ar1
26) impulse709	27) lovesmayfamilis	28) Hamza2424	29) topman21	30) NicNacCoin
31) Woodie	32) Dimitri94	33) BRINIRHA	34) Renampun	35) Die_empty
36) Remsjack	37) John Abraham	38) Ahli38	39) Patrol69	40) |MINER|
41) Dubaian	42) rat03gopoh	43) Gallar	44) Crypto Library	45) Marvell1
46) BobK71	47) SFR10	48) LFC_Bitcoin	49) Fullcoinese	50) Shaha98
51) WhyFhy	52) reagansimms	53) PeakDK	54) Rabata	55) Porfirii
56) creep_o	57) geophphreigh	58) Muba20	59) inthelongrun	60) tread93
61) famososMuertos	62) Nothingtodo	63) 11k	64) sorryfor	65) Hallroom
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(A massive thank you to rat03gopoh & shahzadafzal for compiling these photos)





Voting begins now.  There will be one full week of voting, as I want to give everyone a chance to get their votes in.

How the Poll is to be Run
Poll will run for 7 days.  1 vote per user (you are NOT allowed to use your alt account to vote twice). You can change your vote, of course only up until the contest ends.  

IMPORTANT NOTES:
Once the 7 days is up, the voting will end, but the final results will possibly not be the actual tallies/winners until Theymos comes in and implements a few things to make the voting more fair.  Those things are, as stated by Theymos..“ 1) only Member+ votes will count, where copper membership does not on its own count as Member; and 2) users who haven't made a post in the year between the time of this post and 1 year ago will not be counted".

In the unlikely case of a tie, we'll run another poll which will be set to run for 3 days.

No manipulation of any kind allowed. If I see you trying to manipulate the votes in any way, I reserve the right to disqualify you. Please no alt-accounts, no begging for votes etc.  

Lastly, and most importantly..guys, lets have fun with this. It's not perfect, and never will be. First year doing this, I'll learn from the mistakes I made for next year, if we decide to do it again.  

Contest Two
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5419367.0

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[ChiBitCTy]

NOTE: I didn't realize I couldn't edit a poll post, nor add a poll inside of a post that already has a poll... so it looks like for contest #2, I'll have to run a second thread.  I will be posting that shortly.

Edit: I'm chatting with Theymos about this real quick before I move forward. I'm going to find out if there's a way to add a second poll in this thread, if not, I'll be opening a new thread.  So for contest number 2 be patient please, I'll either be posting it in here, or in a new thread before long.





(A big thanks to Theymos/Cyrus and everyone else who helped out along the way!!!!)

[LDL]

@OP, candidate can vote ?

[_morghulis]

@ChiBitCTy I don't think @sorryfor should be on that list, the pumpkin he submitted for the contest wasn't his it was just some image he downloaded from the internet he didn't carve it himself so I don't think it would be fair for him to be contesting with other users who made theirs themselves.
Looks like he downloaded the first pumpkin image from here^{compare the date}  while the second has already been reported by @John Abraham here, my guess is that you missed it.

@OP, candidate can vote ?

I think they should be excluded because not all of them meet the voting requirements, some candidates are still newbies and Jr member and according to the rule only member+ can vote. It'll won't be fair if some candidates able to vote will others are not able to vote.

[lovesmayfamilis]

@ChiBitCTy I don't think @sorryfor should be on that list, the pumpkin he submitted for the contest wasn't his it was just some image he downloaded from the internet he didn't carve it himself so I don't think it would be fair for him to be contesting with other users who made theirs themselves.
Looks like he downloaded the first pumpkin image from here^{compare the date}  while the second has already been reported by @John Abraham here, my guess is that you missed it.

@OP, candidate can vote ?

I think they should be excluded because not all of them meet the voting requirements, some candidates are still newbies and Jr member and according to the rule only member+ can vote. It'll won't be fair if some candidates able to vote will others are not able to vote.

I don't think you should worry about it. My pumpkin shouldn't be taken as part of a contest, either. Therefore, of course, people are not blind and will make the right choice, especially since, I think, you should not take the contest very seriously, since it was invented for entertainment. But now, seeing the gallery, one can definitely say that very talented people have gathered at our forum.

[ChiBitCTy]

@ChiBitCTy I don't think @sorryfor should be on that list, the pumpkin he submitted for the contest wasn't his it was just some image he downloaded from the internet he didn't carve it himself so I don't think it would be fair for him to be contesting with other users who made theirs themselves.
Looks like he downloaded the first pumpkin image from here^{compare the date}  while the second has already been reported by @John Abraham here, my guess is that you missed it.

@OP, candidate can vote ?

I think they should be excluded because not all of them meet the voting requirements, some candidates are still newbies and Jr member and according to the rule only member+ can vote. It'll won't be fair if some candidates able to vote will others are not able to vote.

I don't think you should worry about it. My pumpkin shouldn't be taken as part of a contest, either. Therefore, of course, people are not blind and will make the right choice, especially since, I think, you should not take the contest very seriously, since it was invented for entertainment. But now, seeing the gallery, one can definitely say that very talented people have gathered at our forum.

Thank you, and I'm going to take your advice.  You're right this should just be looked at as fun and not taken so seriously and you're also right about all the talented people we have around here!


I will remove sorryfor 's photo as soon as I learn how without messing up the code as I just did a moment ago (and ask no one vote for them), but them being in there isn't going to make a difference.  I can't remove them from the poll as it can't be edited, but again, it's not going to make a difference in the end even though as whomever actually did create it did a good job, it's not going to be in the running with so many other more detailed ones that have been created by members here, lets be honest).


 Secondly, the rules are the rules and were stated before I even opened this poll up.  Unfortunately some wont be able to vote on theirs and others more senior members will.  This single vote is not going to make a difference in the end I'm confident of that.  Also If I disallow candidates from voting then that means more work for Theymos as well as a published list of who voted for which pumpkin, and I think most of us would prefer this remain anonymous.  Next year I'll keep this in mind but I'm not going to change the rules at this point.  Again, I'm doing this for fun, everything has been donated, this is free for contestants, and as I said before being my first time, it's not going to be perfect.  

[rat03gopoh]

I will remove sorryfor 's photo as soon as I learn how without messing up the code as I just did a moment ago

Like this??
If you need anything to edit the table, feel free to knock me on PM

[Razmirraz]

@OP, candidate can vote ?

I think they should be excluded because not all of them meet the voting requirements,

It don't matter if the candidate chooses him, it's the same as the election for president and other regional heads. They have the right to vote as long as they meet the requirements, all who have participated in the Pumpkin Carving Contest have the right to make choices for their efforts.

some candidates are still newbies and Jr member and according to the rule only member+ can vote.

Which rule do you mean, I can't find any rule in Thread 🎃 [ANN] Bitcointalk Bitcoin Pumpkin Carving Contest 🎃 about who is eligible to vote and who is excluded, there I only found this.

How will the winner be picked?: There will be a poll ran from Oct 31st to Nov 3rd.  I'm not 100% sure how I will run it, but will try and get some feedback from the community on how to most fairly do so.  Please chime in if you have any ideas!

Op is very open to running the vote, if you have any ideas on the fairest way to do it can leave feedback here.

[shahzadafzal]

taufik123
But i wish if I could vote for more then one participant.

[shahzadafzal]

ChiBitCTy

Please use this table, the images will load much faster. I replaced all the URLs with small images (from imgur with m) and the same height and width to look elegant.

I will edit my post if you accept the code, to avoid duplication.

Edit
Done

[krogoth]

 Submitted vote for 13 Big Bos. Good job and thanks Ty

[cygan]

i have now also cast my vote
had 2-3 favorites but then had to decide for one

[Mbitr]

My votes in  Well done to all the participants and good luck to you all
Thanks ChiBitCTy for organising it all too 

[WhyFhy]

Looks like its over before it even began, Good job taufik123!

[owlcatz]

Looks like its over before it even began, Good job taufik123!

For real! 
Congrats!

My votes in  Well done to all the participants and good luck to you all
Thanks ChiBitCTy for organising it all too 

My thoughts exactly, thanks @Chib! - Good karma awaits you in life!  

[Hookzup1]

A lot of talent in this forum, Hard to choose just 1 winner, great job everyone that participated and thanks ChiBitCTy for making this possible

[ChiBitCTy]

taufik123
But i wish if I could vote for more then one participant.

Thanks for the code, I did replace it with yours.  Much much appreciated!

I also wish I could vote for more than one participant, maybe next year this is something I'll work with Theymos on implementing (if he so graciously volunteers to help out again).  

Honestly so many of you guys did such an amazing job!  It's hard to see some of these that haven't gotten votes that are VERY deserving.  There's about 10 entries I really love.  I would list them out, but I don't want to do any unfair promoting or make others feel bad.  Just know that all of you did a great job, and if you did a more detailed pumpkin with no votes yet,  know that many of us love your work, know you deserve some recognition etc etc.  

Thanks again everyone for participating !!

Note: I'm still waiting to hear back from Theymos for Contest #2, so stayed tuned!

[shahzadafzal]

I also wish I could vote for more than one participant, maybe next year this is something I'll work with Theymos on implementing (if he so graciously volunteers to help out again). 

I thought that option is there by default, isn’t it?  Because I see there’s an option to choose “Maximum votes per user.”

Won’t that work here? I mean if we allow more than one vote per user.

 

[wwzsocki]

taufik123
But i wish if I could vote for more then one participant.

same here, I wish I could vote for few, 3 would be sufficient to pick all I like the most

yeah @Taufik123 you got my voice too

[ChiBitCTy]

taufik123
But i wish if I could vote for more then one participant.

same here, I wish I could vote for few, 3 would be sufficient to pick all I like the most

yeah @Taufik123 you got my voice too

I'm not going to change anything at this point.  It would be kind of nice to have multiple votes, theymos even proposed some ideas in this realm but for the first time doing this I wanted to keep it simple.  I'm not sure having the extra votes will really do anything anyhow, in terms of selecting the winners. 

Again, as I've stated a few times, this is my first time and a bit of a test run.  Next year I'll take the feedback that seems to make sense once I look back at how everything ended up.