Quote from: RickDeckard on February 09, 2023, 10:44:28 PM

2nd Phase - Voting process from 15th of March to 19th of March. Winner shall be announced on the 20th of March. I believe that the voting should be made by means of MERITING, but I'm willing to discuss this with the community (also, another thread would be made);

The voting process seems short enough, I think it need at least 1 week or even 2 weeks since people might forgot, busy etc.

Although merit can be used to vote, but it's not really a good choice because it would increase few dramas like:

What if I send 3 merits to someone? does it's count for 1 vote or 3 vote? if you count for 3 vote, people will say it's a discrimination since merit source do have more sMerit to send
An account who doesn't have any sMerit will not able to vote even he's eligible to vote
Someone mistakenly send merit to the participant which he doesn't want to to vote (you reclaim/unsend/recover sMerit)

I think voting via poll or post are better than merit.

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What would make you more at ease? I could post a donation address to whoever wanted to contribute to the amount in the pot, controlled by me (and that would mean that the community would have to trust me) or I can try to talk to a fellow escrow that I know to hold all the funds (including my own funding);

There are 2 ways:

Every contributors just hold in their own wallet, when the winners have been announced, every contributors can send the prize to the winners
Use trusted escrow if you and other contributors doesn't want to get confused or want to be more efficient

So you don't have to hold other contributors funds.

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Should I change some rules? Or even add more? I want it to be a fair contest for everyone but also prevent double posting from users who may create new accounts for example ...

Only Full member and above are eligible to vote, or any ranks have been received at least 50 Merits
One user can vote x user(s), or there's no restriction and one user can vote all participants, as long as he want?