Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 11:06:56 AM

Although this makes some sense, I'm not in favour of a hard rule for it. Merit sources are free to send Merit the way they want. I wouldn't Merit people just for making a certain vote though.

In general, I agree with you, and most likely next year I will come up with a mechanism that will limit any influence on the vote, (I even had the idea of only accepting votes from those who created their own trust list, lol... but unfortunately that would be a conflict of interest). Using my own example, I can say that in my understanding there is nothing wrong with sending merit to a user who spent 5 minutes making a meaningful choice. The difference is that some users don't share my opinion and use the merit system as a way to say thank you.

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 11:06:56 AM

It's not official, but the fact that it shows up as News on top of this page makes me believe it is at least endorsed. Let me put it this way: promoting the use of a custom Trust list never made it to that level (although I believe it should).

I think it would be possible to consider this event as official only if Theymos hypothetically contributed something more tangible to the awards.

Quote from: icopress on September 23, 2020, 10:46:41 PM

Quote from: Mr.X: A mock-up of what the future prizes might have been if Theymos had intervened. Cool

Rewards:	Community Awards will be held under the auspices of the forum and the prizes are directly dependent on community voting. The Administration has kindly agreed to assign the winners Custom Title, to express gratitude to those who have made an exceptional contribution to the development of the crypto community. The "Merit Prize fund" is a kind of addition to the "Custom Titles" and is intended to award the I, II and III place winners.

	█ Custom Title cannot be chosen at will, it can only be earned by public recognition. █ Awarded to winners for an indefinite period of time, displaying the year of distinction. █ These abilities are subject to moderation, and can be taken away for any reason. █ It is not guaranteed that you will be able to wear the title forever, as software changes may make this feature impractical.

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Quote from: Bitcoin SV on Today at 11:11:54 AM

[...] offered such a huge sums of money.

You are mistaken, I can say with confidence that for companies of this size this is not a significant amount.