Best thread or post: your vote needed

[Fulcrum29]

One would hope that the cream would rise to the top and the chaff would sink, and that would be apparent to an unbiased judge who could spend time looking through all the threads and evaluating them. There is some real quality here, like bullzeye_za's Linux thread for instance and dare I say my own contribution, and you really think it should be drowned out by popularity contests?

Your thread will pull in a certain market, either they participate or they view, naturally you would want people to be exposed to your contribution, why else be the OP?

I'm sorry, not everyone shares the same qualities, this might be an technology orientated Forum, but not everyone is interested in Linux or recipe's. However, you can get these people to gain interest.

 

[cerebus]

Your thread will pull in a certain market, either they participate or they view, naturally you would want people to be exposed to your contribution, why else be the OP?

I'm sorry, not everyone shares the same qualities, this might be an technology orientated Forum, but not everyone is interested in Linux or recipe's. However, you can get these people to gain interest.

You can do if you want. However in this case the whole point of promoting the threads is clearly to drum up votes so that you can win a PS4. Then the winners become the ones with the most desperation and spamminess, not the ones with the best quality. And everyone hates being spammed for votes; it's the bane of my wife's Facebooking. So just in order to discourage that sort of behaviour - and woe betide any who pm me for votes - I'm for judge's decision being final.

 

[Fulcrum29]

You can do if you want. However in this case the whole point of promoting the threads is clearly to drum up votes so that you can win a PS4. Then the winners become the ones with the most desperation and spamminess, not the ones with the best quality. And everyone hates being spammed for votes; it's the bane of my wife's Facebooking. So just in order to discourage that sort of behaviour - and woe betide any who pm me for votes - I'm for judge's decision being final.

You have an reasonable argument, you are correct that competitions are messy when it comes to votes, proper rules, regulations and guidelines must be announced prior the commencement date.

The voting committee is problematic as with this current debacle (the community), but this group must be anonymous and their individual tally must be made known on the winner announcement date. Should the community being utilised, then certain voting mechanisms must be used in combination, like views, contributions, replies etc. not votes, however this needs monitoring, control and throughout management.

In this case, there was no rules against campaigning and I see campaigning as a legitimate tool to gain votes and also thread visibility. Marketing can either make you, or destroy you.

This Forum extends its reach not only to a viewing or participating audience, but also to their advertisers. Quality in concern here... hmmm, then surely the Opel Monza 1991 CoTY thread must be the winner, right?

Then I must agree with you, IMO the personal COLLECTION OF INFORMATION = TYPE OF QUALITY, still this is a competition and my argument in regard with promotion still stands under the competition terms and conditions.

In the end, I participated in only one competition thread:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...-Cape-Town?p=11919479&viewfull=1#post11919479

I made a legitimate participation in where my personal interest draw my attention, prior this debacle, and I made my vote accordingly (with a push).

Like I said, my other option is your thread.

 

[Azbubu]

There is some real quality here, like bullzeye_za's Linux thread for instance and dare I say my own contribution, and you really think it should be drowned out by popularity contests?

One of the main aims of the competition was originality. How original are user-submitted recipes on the internet?

 

[KALSTER]

I expected an unrelated answer to my question. Great philosophy you have.

Honestly, this whole competition is started due to search engine searching leading people to MyBB. Yet, there is only two searches (options when it comes to the competition) which is relevant to me.

1. Recipe’s
2. Experience (in this case CRAFT beer)

I chose option 2, hence the OP promoted his thread. Cerebus was my other option.

It is not unrelated. This competition is run by popular vote. If it was about how the threads were doing, it would be about how many views and/or replies there were.

So, my vote should be about which thread/post is the best. For that I only need to know where to find the thread. It matters absolutely nothing how much a person was campaigning for that thread for the purposes of winning a PS4. It should be about how much a certain person deserves it.

I saw an appeal to vote for mr_norris in another forum (not by mr_norris himself), which drew my attention to the competition, but I voted for the best thread, which happened to be mr_norris' one imo. You are free to vote for whichever thread you choose, be it for Recipe's or whatever (yes, I moaned about people choosing beer over sound financial advice, but that's more a comment on people's sometimes misplaced priorities than on the competition per se), but I still fail to see how active campaigning should be a factor in the decision.

The main point is that the PS4 should go the best thread/post, not to the guy who campaigned the hardest, otherwise it makes a farce out of the whole thing.

 

[Azbubu]

As for the craft beer in Cape Town, there are plenty of hits on the internet so that's hardly original either.

for example the first result : http://www.capetownmagazine.com/real-beer

 

[Fulcrum29]

As for the craft beer in Cape Town, there are plenty of hits on the internet so that's hardly original either.

for example the first result : http://www.capetownmagazine.com/real-beer

Anything is hardly original on the internet, even meme's are well boring nowadays... News topics, can't challenge those articles. In regard with MyBB, you will most likely end up in this thread, http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/284615-Home-Brewing-Micro-Brewery-My-own-beer, I checked. Actually a long-term thread competition will be phenomenal, seeing how it can gain in contribution, clicks and search ranking. The thing is, that the OP must be able to keep his thread (SUBJECT) alive…

Also interesting to see the little visibility in other search engines...

So Abzo which thread ads the most value to you personally?

 

[Azbubu]

So Abzo which thread ads the most value to you personally?

From the finalists probably the income tax, home loan or dog washing one.

Because there are only 3 certainties in life; taxes, loans and dirty dogs.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Just cancel this competition and give the PS4 to a childrens home. Nothing good will come of this now, whichever way it goes. Consider it a lesson learnt that leaving it up to the community will not work.

 

[DJ...]

Just cancel this competition and give the PS4 to a childrens home. Nothing good will come of this now, whichever way it goes. Consider it a lesson learnt that leaving it up to the community will not work.

It can work. The voting bit needs to be removed though. I've proposed a solution in the campaigning for votes thread...

 

[OGroteKoning]

Just cancel this competition and give the PS4 to a childrens home. Nothing good will come of this now, whichever way it goes. Consider it a lesson learnt that leaving it up to the community will not work.

I was thinking the same thing. Just slightly different. Put the PS4 up for auction on this site and send the cash to a charity OF RPM'S CHOICE.

/please don't ask for a poll for charities - just more arguments

 

[Azbubu]

I was thinking the same thing. Just slightly different. Put the PS4 up for auction on this site and send the cash to a charity OF RPM'S CHOICE.

/please don't ask for a poll for charities - just more arguments

How about the "Biometrics centre for forumites who can't solicit votes good and want to learn to do other stuff good too."

 

[OGroteKoning]

How about the "Biometrics centre for forumites who can't solicit votes good and want to learn to do other stuff good too."

What is their charity registration number. The charity needs to be audited for validity

 

[DJ...]

What is their charity registration number. The charity needs to be audited for validity

4...

 

[OGroteKoning]

4...

This is not a competition, stop guessing

 

[bullzeye.za]

This is not a competition, stop guessing

12

 

[OGroteKoning]

12

Bullzeye!!... NOT

 

[biometrics]

How about the "Biometrics centre for forumites who can't solicit votes good and want to learn to do other stuff good too."

Well I did "win"

And had to compete with one post wonders from reddit!

 

[kingrob]

Rpm can keep the PS4 and get an extra controller for Cara.

Sorted.

 

[MickeyD]

Have I won yet?

























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