Re: 🥧 Bitcointalk Pie Making Contest - Gathering feedback 🥧
Considering that you need only 217 merits to enter in Top 1000 of users with most earned merits, it's also not that easy. However, it's not a herculean task even by far. I am sure that those which have at least 10-15 merits can manage to obtain a few more for becoming eligible, if they really want to. After all, for ranking up from Member to Full Member you need a 1000% raise of merits (100 merits is 1000% more than 10). In our case it's "just" 300% 
Indeed, I don't think that 30 Merit & 30 activity is such a high bar that will make such a high barrier to participate in the contest. If certain users really want to take part in the contest, they for sure will try their best to gather enough merit & activity in order to take part in the contest.I'd have one more mention, about how many nominees a user may choose? Should it be only 1? 3? No limit?
I'm more geared towards only 1 vote per user - This would make sure that you'll only pick the one that really, really stood out from the rest of the entries. It would make each user actually use different criteria to judge a certain entry and cast their vote on the one that they think truly represents the winning pie. But, then again, this is my point of view and I'm open to hear other users opinions on this...