I would not have known about the 2022 Community Awards if it hadn't been for the notification I received earlier today from someone who voted for me in a category. I'm sure many people will miss out if it isn't pin on the home page of the forum like it was last year.
All I can do is mention all users who qualify for voting (50 or more earned Merits). If they use any notification service, they'll now know about
[Voting 2022] Bitcointalk Community Awards!
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Challenge: scroll a bit within the code tags, then see if you recognize even 5 of the names.
how many of these users are active/alive? and why 50 merits benchmark
Every vote is a duplicate of the previous year's; the only categories that vary each year are "Fail of the Year," "Event of the Year," and "Antihero," the rest is just rinse, repeat, and rinse among the same people. Same voters, same outcomes. Its worth is dwindling.
What do you suggest?
Counting votes is actually a very laborious process, but we can make it a little more complicated. For example, take into account the power of the vote ... let's say your power of vote will be equal to 1 if you are DT1, if you are DT2 (0.5). If your trust list is empty, your vote strength is 0.2.
In addition, I can already say that next year the Miss Bitcointalk category will be abolished (there will be another category).
Giving DT more voting power results in automatic slots for the same set of DT members over and over. I'm not sure, but having the same group of members win the same awards every year isn't a good idea in my opinion. What if each local board nominates a category, and then a general pool is established? Does it appear to be a bad ideal?
If I recall correctly, Foxup won the female category some time ago; how do you nominate someone whose gender is unknown to 95% of the voters? After antihero, this is the most useless category.