[Results 2022] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆

[DdmrDdmr]

Congratulations to all those nominated, and even more so to those in the category podiums.

@GazetaBitcoin, do you happen to have the total count of valid voters ?

I'm presuming it's in the 250-300 range. I wanted to get an idea of the percentage of potential voters that cast their vote, out of the potential pool. I didn't make any sort of count at the end of the voting period, but if I look at it today, in order to get a rough idea of the potential pool, there are 2.825 accounts with 50 or above earned Merits. In practical terms though, 1.723 have been active since November 2022, which seems more like the potential pool's practical upper limit.

Note 1:
BTC address: bc1qlc0l83fhrafxuae3rv87uyghczjm4j4y78x976

Note 2:
As I stated on my local board at some point, being just a thought, it could be interesting to consider something related to local boards in future events.

[fillippone]

As I stated on my local board at some point, being just a thought, it could be interesting to consider something related to local boards in future events.

This is a very nice idea, as I think local boards are the core of this forum.

Of course, it would be very difficult to have meaningful voting, as every local board is a different island, and of course, we want to prevent the local hero merit source from winning the competition.

[TryNinja]

Wow wow!! Is that a back to back ninja award? Does that mean I can finally buy a katana and graduate as a real ninja?

Thank you everyone for voting for me. A few years ago I couldn’t imagine being known and remembered by so many people. As a developer since I was little, I always dreamt of coding stuff people actually used on a daily basis, so I’m very glad to be making a difference. Every short userscript someone installs, every notification my bot sends is a reason for me to keep working on them (and more).

Thank you!

Also, is it right that I’ve won a Ledger? Mine broke a few months ago and I was just postponing on buying a new one. And a new X model?

Thank you icopress for running this very well done contest, as always. I wouldn’t be able to pull off 10% of what you’re doing. And thank you Betnomi and Cryptios for the very generous prizes!


edit: btc addr
bc1qdhlrf9fq4cz65mzync6ama9gvlzwrpthyl6zs5

[Welsh]

Let's see some more competition for the spambuster next year . Congratulations to everyone that was a nominee of course.

This is a very nice idea, as I think local boards are the core of this forum.

Of course, it would be very difficult to have meaningful voting, as every local board is a different island, and of course, we want to prevent the local hero merit source from winning the competition.

Could easily be done with the permission of Icopress & co to elect certain prominent users of the local sections. There will be less work to do since there won't be as many users voting, and at least you'll get more tightly knitted users voting for their stand out users each year. Plus, you could potentially narrow down some of the categories to make it better fit. That way, they could vote on their local community awards, and the main one without too many issues. Otherwise, some users who predominately post within their local section will never have a chance, despite potentially being a great candidate for a vote.

[theymos]

Congrats to the other winners! I'm touched that so many people went out of their way to vote for me.

I decline any prize. Please reassign it to someone else, donate the value to Evidence Action, or keep it.

Thanks for organizing this, icopress!

[sheenshane]

Congrats to all winners and thank you to those active users (it's already mentioned who are they) who organized this contest.
I'm now thinking about what will be the next contest this year.

If you consider the forum as a whole to be one big community, it's an honor just to get some votes in any of the categories, you know?

Well said and I just want to thank them.
It's been my honor they voted for me for that category.

[ChiBitCTy]

Winning Event of the Year is pretty cool and I appreciate everyone who participated.  Very appreciative for the help Theymos and Cyrus provided me with, as well as all the users who helped keep things in line, helped with the pictures etc.  You all were a huge help and I can't thank you enough. I think I will be running it again next year if there's interest.

I see I'm on the wall of shame for meriting someone's post lol. I do apologize, I read the rules but quickly.  Obviously MinerJones and I don't need merit, I was just appreciative of him listing me as a scambuster.  But again sorry about that Icopress ( I know you know it wasn't merit farming or whatever but rules are rules).

[1miau]

I see we have some winners again from the same category as the previous year, maybe we should have an award for two-time bitcointalk award winners 

That's an interesting idea. Maybe we can make a nomination for those which succeeded that, like there is a position inside some companies named Honorary Chairman... Like a sign of recognition.

I would do it quite the other way round. If there's a previously winning member in the Top 3 in the respective category, I would give an award to place number 4 as well + spilt the BTC prize money between the previous winner and the runner up.
For example, votes have been counted as following:

- CryptoLion (45)
- CryptoShark (41)
- CryptoDolphin (21)
- CryptoFish (18)
- CryptoLOL (11)
- CryptoROFL (7)

But CryptoLion has been a winner previously in the same category. Now, CryptoFish would also win an award (as runner up) and prizes are split between CryptoLion and CryptoFish evenly.
If CryptoShark has been a winner previously in the same category as well, same procedure applies and CryptoLOL will also win an award + prize money is split between CryptoShark and CryptoLOL evenly.

Such a solution would make it more fair to reward more members. 

[n0nce]

Such a solution would make it more fair to reward more members. 

I'm not entirely sure about that. More members, sure - more fair, I don't know.

For instance, let's take SpamBuster category and assume it is objectively ranked by most successful (true positives) spam reports.
Assume it is 2022; UserA reported 1000 posts in the year, and UserB (ranked second) reported 100 posts, everyone else under 100 posts. UserA wins the category and takes home first place.
Let's say in 2023, the numbers are exactly the same. UserA again reported 1000 posts and the next best user only reported 100. So UserA did the exact same job, and everyone else performed exactly the same, too. Now, only because this is the second year, UserA will have to share their prize, even though nothing changed.

By knowing about this rule, UserA may be discouraged from reporting 1000 posts again, since they could just as well aim for second (or lower) spot instead with much less work involved.
I'm all about encouraging instead of discouraging, so therefore I lean against such a solution.

I am pretty sure that we discussed such ideas at length in the [Discussion] thread, in fall of 2022.

[PowerGlove]

What about having a custom title for the winners? It doesn't take much time for theymos to add them. People will see Golden Feather 2021, 2022 and thus, more people will know about the yearly contest too.
I think we can create a petition thread to convince theymos that Bitcointalk Community awards winner should have a custom title.
Thoughts?

That's a cool idea!

Although, I think it would be even nicer to add a BCA forum badge with the specific award(s) in the tooltip, like this:



Edit: Some people may want to opt out of wearing these badges, but with so few eligible that could easily be handled over PM.

[Die_empty]

Congratulations to all the winners. I also want to appreciate the sponsors (Betnomi) and the organizers (Icopress and others). It's not easy to properly organize events and get the desired results. Last year the world had some natural disasters such as flooding, famine, war, and others. And some members went out of their way to give support to some of these victims. I think this selflessness should be recognized by the forum. I am suggesting that an award section be created to recognize such selfless service.

[skarais]

Congratulations to all the winners in each of the different categories of this annual awards.
The sponsors, organizers and all the users involved in this awards are absolutely amazing. I don't know if they have selected the users by the right category but it doesn't really matter anymore as we have got the winner.

There aren't lot of new users winning nominations, it's still being won by most of the old users who were last year's award winners too. But for whatever reason, it must be special to keep it for different years.

[fillippone]

What about having a custom title for the winners? It doesn't take much time for theymos to add them. People will see Golden Feather 2021, 2022 and thus, more people will know about the yearly contest too.
I think we can create a petition thread to convince theymos that Bitcointalk Community awards winner should have a custom title.
Thoughts?

That's a cool idea!

Although, I think it would be even nicer to add a BCA forum badge with the specific award(s) in the tooltip, like this:



Edit: Some people may want to opt out of wearing these badges, but with so few eligible that could easily be handled over PM.

Very nice idea, and I guess easily doable (not expert about SMF here).
Or maybe next year the award could include a customized badge for each category.

[UserU]

Very nice idea, and I guess easily doable (not expert about SMF here).
Or maybe next year the award could include a customized badge for each category.

It's all doable with a mere plugin. Install, upload the icons, and assign to the profiles that match the condition/ criterion.

[dkbit98]

Also, is it right that I’ve won a Ledger? Mine broke a few months ago and I was just postponing on buying a new one. And a new X model?

If it's not a secret how exactly your ledger hardware wallet broke exactly?
Was it physical damage, problem with display or some other kind of software and hardware problem?

Let's see some more competition for the spambuster next year . Congratulations to everyone that was a nominee of course.

How about creating next year category for people who are making most good reports to moderators?
This could increase number of reports all around the forum, it will make everything cleaner, and people will have a bit more motivation to do it.
Category name could be something like Best Reporter.

[giammangiato]

Congratulations to all the winners, this contest was really nice and cute.
A round of applause to my Filipino compatriot and thank you for letting us participate in this contest
and also thanks to those who organized it and to the sponsors

[GazetaBitcoin]

What about having a custom title for the winners? It doesn't take much time for theymos to add them. People will see Golden Feather 2021, 2022 and thus, more people will know about the yearly contest too.

This sounds nice and, if I remember well, this was discussed as a possible prize for first edition of the contest but, for some reason, this prize could not be implemented back then.

I think we can create a petition thread to convince theymos that Bitcointalk Community awards winner should have a custom title.

On the other hand, maybe theymos would listen to vox populi, in case such a petiotion would be signed by many users. Who knows? Feel free to try

My suggestion for next year is to make few changes, maybe we could have randomly selected winners for stuff like hardware wallets and collectibles.

New categories to consider:
- Peacemaker
- Troublemaker
- Drama Queen

Thank you for these suggestions Would you like to elaborate a bit more about the new categories? I mean to say a few words about their description or what type of users would fit in each category...? Maybe give some examples that cross your mind right now, together with some links to topics showing why X can be considered Peacemaker, why Y can be considered Troublemaker or why Z can be considered Drama Queen? This may be helpful.

@GazetaBitcoin, do you happen to have the total count of valid voters ?

We had 141 eligible voters.

As I stated on my local board at some point, being just a thought, it could be interesting to consider something related to local boards in future events.

Would you like to elaborate a bit on the subject? What do you have in mind?

I see I'm on the wall of shame for meriting someone's post lol.

Please don't take it this way, don't feel bad about it. I just had to mention the out of the ordinary situations too. (Otherwise maybe I was questioned if I closed my eyes at rule-breaking cases ). Seriously, there was no intention to make you feel like being placed at the wall of shame. You are a very good scam buster!

I do apologize, I read the rules but quickly. [...] it wasn't merit farming or whatever but rules are rules

Relax, I am certain that nobody would ever think about you as a merit farmer, lol. However, it's important to read rules carefully.

[SFR10]

I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't participate ^{[my plan was to reveal my votes in the last few days of the event to minimize its influence on others, but for some reason, I forgot]}, but I'd still like to thank icopress, GazetaBitcoin, Cyrus ^[Cryptios], Sorsis ^[Betnomi] and everyone who voted/participated for forming this year's colorful event
^{- Congratulations to the other 23 winners}

I would appreciate it if the winners would post their bitcoin addresses here.

bc1q2chccnvmcq3uzj9kkjez38lmnx8fad03mq4vmt
^{- Thank you}

[TryNinja]

If it's not a secret how exactly your ledger hardware wallet broke exactly?
Was it physical damage, problem with display or some other kind of software and hardware problem?

I dropped water on it.

(Not in a boat trip)

But I already wanted to buy a new one even before that. The buttons were all messed up already after a few years of daily use.

[dkbit98]

Thank you for these suggestions Would you like to elaborate a bit more about the new categories? I mean to say a few words about their description or what type of users would fit in each category...? Maybe give some examples that cross your mind right now, together with some links to topics showing why X can be considered Peacemaker, why Y can be considered Troublemaker or why Z can be considered Drama Queen? This may be helpful.

I mean it's obvious if you look at the names I suggested and there is no need for writing big explanations, my idea was just to freshen up next year competition.

I dropped water on it.

Don't throw it away in garbage, maybe you could use it later for spear parts.
Believe it or not, almost all hardware wallets that exist today are not water resistant, so better be careful with new device you purchase, or keep in some case or bag.
Only device I know that claims it will be water resistant is upcoming 1inch hardware wallet, but I hope others will soon follow that practice.