Quote from: ETFbitcoin on Today at 09:28:22 AM

Is it right to assume user must have 50 earned merit of all time? Do you count earned merit after voting phase started?

In the moment of submitting a vote, a user must have earned until then at least 50 merits. If he earned only 49 he will have to wait until meeting the minimum requirement for voting. Only earned merits are counted, not airdropped ones.

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on Today at 09:28:22 AM

Since there are many changes, IMO this addition (0.8 coefficient/multiplier) isn't needed.

Thank you for your feedback.

Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on Today at 09:37:38 AM

Quote from: ETFbitcoin on Today at 09:28:22 AM

How do you define active user? Only by "Last Active: " column on profile page?

I will suggest last post the made.

For example last post made before November 2021, receive any vote, will not be counted. Also after the launch of the award pool if the same criteria of the user makes any post then that will not include them as whitelisted too. I think this will prevent them to abuse the rule.

Good point. Besides, always keep in mind that -- normally -- for a user to be nominated at any category, he should have done something extraordinary during this year. Otherwise what's the point of nominating him? Imagine there was someone who made a post in April 2022. Okay, he is eligible to be nominated, as he was active this year. But he made only 1 post. What's the point to nominate him?

We don't need to struggle too much with these very minor details, in my opinion... Such details such be common sense... Of course, if 1000 users would vote for someone with only 1 post made this year, that person would probably win a category, although he did not bring any notable contribution to the forum... but chances for such particular events to happen are very low, I believe.

Of course, everybody can nominated anybody they want (if the nominees are eligible) but, in my opinion -- and I thought this idea is shared by others too -- nominees should also be iconic figures of the forum during 2022, right?

Not just someone who made a post in the entire year and which is still eligible to be nominated.

Quote from: joker_josue on Today at 10:43:08 AM

And that's what I'm talking about, penalizing for having won doesn't make sense. Wink

Yup, I got your point

This is why we asked for feedback -- to see what everybody feels about this suggestion.

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 02:27:42 PM

So is posting (or logging in) in 2022 enough? Or is there a minimum number of posts required?

I replied above

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 02:27:42 PM

This should reduce the drama involving votes. Just to be clear: the way it's written now you're counting all Merits sent to any of the users. I assume this only counts for merit sent in the voting-topic, right?

Yes, this is correct. The measure was taken after the events which occurred at previous two contests.

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 02:27:42 PM

This is tricky. It feels like my opinion on this is a conflict of interest, but I agree to the points made here:

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on November 08, 2022, 03:09:00 PM

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Yup, thank you for your feedback.

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 02:27:42 PM

See this list: 2924 users received 50 Merits, 5632 users received 20 Merits. And for some of those "received" doesn't mean they "earned" it.

Thank you for showing these numbers, LoyceV. I am not sure how many users voted at previous contests but, for sure, they were much less than 2924

Let's see how it goes this year and if changes will be required, we'll readjust for next year, as we already did now