Thanks for your patience everyone. Voting will begin very soon, the details on how to vote will be posted in a new ANN thread.
It should be noted, voting will not occur on Bitcointalk.org, but over Facebook and Twitter. More details and information will be posted.
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https://twitter.com/CoinsSourceThat's bullshit. A lot of people don't use any social media like FB or Twitter. I'm certainly not associating my BCT username with anything social media related just to vote. All I can say is wow, just wow...
Hopefully others on here will voice in agreement.
+1
Majority of Darkcoin people WILL NOT vote on social networks
This, they're just trying to keep legitimate anon out of the votes.
I do not and will not use social media, and anyone who cares about privacy is in that boat as well.
Obviously Rigged Voting is Obviously Rigged. Have a nice Day.
Regarding your concerns, Bitcointalk voting is still available for all users who have 250+ activity. Here's the message that got followed up from that post:
"Apologies, but that was miscommunitcation. For the majority of voters, they will be required to use Social media.
All Bitcointalk accounts with over 250+ Activity and Senior Members+ will be eligible to cast their vote on Bitcointalk. The activity must be 250+ at time the voting phase ends.
We will not accept anyone under 250+ activity to vote on Bitcointalk, due to lacking devotion to digital currencies in general and mass manipulation found within lesser-ranks. We recognize the need to have anonymity, but this is a voting process and has to be as fair as possible to those developers who actively are reaching out to new community followers through a broader gateway.
Secondly, a lot of people involved in digital currencies reside on Reddit and social neglect Bitcointalk.org all together due to the high amounts of FUD and climate that some coins may reside in currently.
We are here to promote the individuals hard-work and efforts and push digital currencies forward"
Edit: there is no perfect, or fairest way to vote, we admit that. Even the highest elections systems become falsified to an extent, at least in my belief. But the path we've chosen has great benefit and is seen as one of the more fair ways to vote for the canadates, to anyone and everyone who participates. There is also a level of transparency, again we are here to ultimately peserve and put forth the integrity of the nomination phase, and have the cleanest voting process as possible.
I should note, we will be manually checking almost all accounts for the rules we set forth, and double voting. Everything that we find will be put into a google sheet and made publicly before any winner is announced.
We are always welcomed to suggestions, to my knowledge an event on this scale has rarely been done. We've looked at several ways for the voting process to occur, in all shapes and forms before coming to this conclusion to have a high restriction on Bitcointalk votes and social media filtering (when voting ends).
