Also @ABCbits awarded 387 qualifying prizes to pizza contest entrants today. You have also given merit to 131 people in a single way, although you have tried to give merit awards to all people, many have received merit more than once. You may have accidentally left something out.
That might be possible since i manually see and send merit to each entrants. Anyway i'll revisit this whole thread later to see whether i missed something. I also notice user @JayJuanGee send merit to so many entrants.
It ain’t easy having to go through all them pages and to the many contestants we have in the pizza contest, making the associated threads colourful and leaves a few lovers of good Italian pizza salivating.
However, one way to keep track of all of them is in the initial thread for uploading them pizza where, through the compiled picture evidence of entries, you can review posts from individual entries.
However, what might have been left out are the late entries and disqualifications based on other reasons. Though these might not count, efforts are still there which is worth rewarding.
The contest have become a large one and forum intuitive, am amazed at how motivated users are towards this eventuality.
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Man, I'd appreciate it if you'd stop posting preliminary voting results.
2. Information about leaders or laggards can affect objectivity (very significantly).
I feel so too. It’s a nice idea and the open ballot system used here is very cool though, having to analyze and post these votes before it’s time could influence individual decisions as, users would tend to review where the most votes are cast, seek out those options more for a potential vote, leaving less and less concentration on other entries.
Of course this could be the case should users randomly check but, it would mean a ton of work too and not many users would want to go through that and pre-result exposure like this makes the work easy for them towards this goal and concentrates votes.
