Ladies and gentlemen,
Thanks Gazeta.
As a suggestion, I would put those rules in the OP of this thread, updating past rules, or I would provide a direct link to this post, as it would be difficult for a random user, like me, to land on the correct post.
2. No merit sending is allowed from nominees to users which nominated them. This should improve dramatically the accuracy of results and offenders will have to support a penalty. For each merit sent, 1 vote is deducted. So for example, if in the voting topic Alice sent 5 merits to those who nominated her in any category, then we will not count these votes (but the rest of the votes that are addressed to other nominees will be taken into account). In addition, if a user voted for Alice in two categories, then the votes for each of the categories will be unaccounted for.
I would like to merit the OP of the Contest Thread by Icopress, I see he voted for me, would that infringe the rules?
As a merit source, dropping merits everywhere on the forum, if this rule would extend beyond the tread it would be very difficult for me to make sure there are no incident.
As a declaration I am also going to merit this post by Gazeta.
We were also curious about how users feel about implementing a rule which would give chances to more people to win. What we were thinking about is the following: to arrange things thus the winner of a category cannot be the same person from previous contests. Or he can be, as this does not mean a ban -- but he can be with more efforts. To be more precise, all previous winners could start with a coefficient of 0.8. Attention! -- this happens only regarding the previously won category!
I am strongly against this measure.
If an user is too good, then its our task doing better, not tweaking the rules to demote him.
Merit is important in this forum! (Pun intended).