Contests such as the one you linked to (or at least your discussion of the Bitcointalk Community Awards) aren't official as far as I know, i.e., they're not being sanctioned by Theymos--please correct me if I'm wrong--
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 don't quite understand. Just in accordance with the above, asking the community, can I run my own
unofficial contest?
Or it must be endorsed by someone?
I want to conduct my honest competition (where merit distributing will be banned by contest conditions) so that there are no frauds.
I will only have fair original nominations suitable for ordinary people. Not for farmers & other DT parasites