Why is Halloween not being celebrated in our forum yet this year?

[acroman08]

But won't the contest start this year in our forum. I want to know the opinion of the experienced about the start of this contest.

those contest that you see happen every year are usually organized by forum members, it is not an official forum event/contest so don't expect contest like the last year's pumpkin carving contest to happen every year.

anyway, I saw a member posted that casino500 and Roobet are having their Halloween contest, you can join there.

[_BlackStar]

What's the relation between Halloween and Bitcoin?

An easy way to earn Merits.
The last pizza challenge^[1] last time added a big boost to many users and is considered the ideal place for alt-accounts farms.

There's no doubt about it - especially if a newbie asks why the same contest wasn't held this year. Contest thread like this are abused by some users as a way to easily earn merit - in fact I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were just doing it for the sake of merit and joining signature campaign.

Halloween contests are not mandatory - but are certainly expected by some people with good skills. Some people abuse it - others really want to win the contest without thinking about how much merit they can get.

[nakamura12]

The best thing about these kinds of contests is they draw all the cheaters & alt accounts, making them easy to identify.

I know the contests are born out of purely good intentions, but as we've also seen with the pizza and art contest (as well as all the price prediction contests & free raffles), they attract a lot of users without consciousnesses. Anything that has to do with free money will attract scumbags who won't respect the rules -- that's just how its always been, long before bitcoin.

Some people are also attracted because of the merits received from joining the contest. I know that many forum members know this that many of the participants receive merit joining the contest. I am also participated in a contest before to have fun while doing what I am going to submit either I receive a merit or not. Well, most of it are about earning free money as you have stated that people who are cheaters will do what they do best and that is to cheat.

[philipma1957]

I can literally see the disappointment of those who have registered a bunch of alternative accounts, expecting quick fishing for merit. I've seen discussions in some of the most active local sections of the past year, and I'm willing to bet that's where there's a lot of anticipation and impatience.

Quite funny to see people who have never actually celebrated this being so eager for the forum to have another competition.
Now, what are the chances of this "newbie" explaining to us the history of Halloween actually committing some plagiarism or at least some text spinning?

The first day of November was celebrated by them as New Year or 'Sah-win'.

Somebody copied and pasted the pronunciation instead of the name!  

True, but this contest can be fun and they bring a lot more activity in forum.
Last pizza making contest had some worst a antu-Italian pizzas I ever saw in my life, made with potato, lemon, etc  

As disgusting as that thing is for me at least, pizza con patate it's actually an Italian dish!
Pineapple pizza, that's an insult to food!

Pineapple and spam pizza first had it in Oahu its okay.

But I prefer NJ tomato pie or NY pizza

[Z_MBFM]

Likewise, I wonder if we open a competition without the condition that posts will be judged on merit, will it have the same popularity?

Guess what the country he talked about in his first post.

I think everyone can already see it, and as Z_MBFM said, they were going to get a gold medal in pumpkin carving this year.

আপনাদের কি মনে আছে অক্টোবর মাসে Halloween আর এই হ্যালোইনের উপলক্ষে ফোরামে একটা কুমড়া কনটেস্ট হবে। আর এ কারণেই এসব অ্যাকাউন্ট তৈরি করা হইতেছে কুমড়া কন্টেস্টে জয়েন কইরা মেরিট ফারমিং করার জন্য। আমি যা বললাম এগুলো সবাই নোট করে রাখতে পারেন এবারের কুমড়া কনটেস্টে হয়তোবা এমনও হতে পারে যে আমাগো বাংলাদেশ বোর্ড খ্যাতির চোদনে সোনার মেডেল পাবে। কথাটা হয়তোবা অনেকেই বুঝতে পারছেন। চিল্লাইয়া কোনো লাভ নাই তাই চিল্লান বাদ দিতেছি ধীরে ধীরে।

It is unfortunate that the forum does not limit the registration of accounts by IP addresses. There would be fewer such participants if a maximum of 3–4 accounts could be registered from one IP address.
Now we will observe how the transfer of merit will be carried out between failed pumpkin carvers.

I made such a comment because something like this happened last year that I have witnessed. op opened account on 19th and looking for pumking contest. then you can understand how some account farmers are preparing for pumking. you know very well how many accounts were created from the last Pamking content mr lovesmayfamilis. So I think it is better not to repeat such content and if it is done then there should be a minimum rank limit to join the contest and below that rank no one should be allowed to win content award and for any kind of Smerit.
There are other contests like Pamking Contest like Pizza Contest, Pie Baking Contest which are used for account farming too.

[FatFork]

We saw in our forum that last year a contest was started to celebrate Halloween from 7th of October but why not this year.

But you registered just a few days ago, how do you know about last year's Halloween contest? 

Oh, I'm sure it's just a coincidence. OP probably joined the forum with the noble intention of diving deep into the world of Bitcoin, but quite by accident stumbled upon last year's Halloween contest buried down in the "Collectibles" board, locked and forgotten for over eight months. So he decided to ask about it in the Meta board, as any other newbie would. Nothing strange about that.