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     7 years ago 

    There shld be a percentage of vote to be taken into account. Say 30% of entire scoring system by votes. 70% to be decided by a panel of judges from different fields by their accredition. In that way your talent contest dont end up as a popularity contest. U may have one guy with 10000 supporters that will win your talent contest because he folds a paper aeroplane like a 3 yr old and he gets his votes.

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     7 years ago (edited)

    While I can see that the panel of judges idea has some energy behind it, we are currently relying on a few principles pulled from the original STEEM whitepaper.

    "Anyone attempting to selfishly vote for themselves will find other users with a vested interest in the value of their STEEM will be quick to vote them down."

    The Story of the Crab Bucket

    "A man was walking along the beach and saw another man fishing in the surf with a bait bucket beside him. As he drew closer, he saw that the bait bucket had no lid and had live crabs inside.

    "Why don't you cover your bait bucket so the crabs won't escape?", he said.

    "You don't understand.", the man replied, "If there is one crab in the bucket it would surely crawl out very quickly. However, when there are many crabs in the bucket, if one tries to crawl up the side, the others grab hold of it and pull it back down so that it will share the same fate as the rest of them."

    As a non-partisan member we observe the rules are being met. If you believe the quality of the post is undeserving of the prize, then you're bringing it up with the wrong party. That said, we could look into implementing a comment 'downvote' option which could count as -1 to the participants score. Open to feedback.

    Its the common opinion amongst Spotlight Team Members that if we move to a panel of judges we make this effort centralized and less accessible.

    I'm sorry for any frustrations this might cause, but we intend to iterate on this system to continue our mission of empowering steemians, and the Steem Blockchain through Content Creation, Community Building and SEO Best Practices.

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       7 years ago 

      Thank you for the lengthy explanation. I accept that and i wish you a good journey ahead.

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       7 years ago 

      Thanks for your clarification but i think a weighting system of say 40-60 or even 30-70 each being the judges to votes ratio would go a long way in encouraging quality submissions. A participant who knows he has the numbers would then consider to do quality so that he doesn't lose out points in the quality assessment. And if he thinks his votes source can do all the work required, then he can drop any trash and work on his voters. I don't think a 40-60 ratio means full centralization.

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         7 years ago 

        When a contest becomes highly predictable, it becomes uninteresting and unattractive too.

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