I think the voting system should be changed as it's really funny at the moment (because some of the pizzas on display are culinary arts). But at the same time, these pizzas did not receive due attention. I see that in the discord all pizzas got 1 vote each while two pizzas got 10 votes each (to be honest I think someone texted friends or something like that).
Yes. They did. The Irony is that they did not ask their friends to review other pizzas and vote if they liked them. In such a way, Voting can be manipulated. But, As long as I remember, asking your friends to vote for you is allowed. Last year fillippone posted in the Wo thread and invited WO Bros to vote, if I am not wrong. That's more acceptable. But, when you ask your friends to vote for you in private, people with the worst pizza with a big friend circle could win the competition.
It's not about the prize at all, I just wanted to speak out because I think that the organizer of the competition should have chosen, say, the 10 best pizzas (in own subjective opinion). And then put them to a vote. I am sure that in this case sponsorship contributions would be much more significant and I also took care of it.
Well, This is the fourth year, and the the last three seasons were fair (If I am not wrong). I don't think the organizer expected that much submission or exposure this year. Since everyone was doing fair, he might think this year it will be like those as well. I think asking your friends to vote should not be allowed because they will vote only for you. But, the problem is you cannot monitor it. You would never know if someone asked their friends to vote for them. Your Suggested Idea is not bad. But, then other participants may get disappointed because they might think their effort wasted.
I guess I've seen poll voting system in either Pie Baking contest or Pumpkin Curving contest. How is that worked in your opinion?
In my personal opinion: "Fuck the discord"
(I know, I know, I know.. it's a bit of a strong way to make this particular point.. but still, sometimes a wee bit of emphasis seems like it might fit).I cannot even remember why there was some kind of need to conduct the contest there and to engage in a bad habit of luring members away from this here forum, when we already have a more or less lovely forum
(#nohomo) here and a seemingly decent way to verify if someone happens to be a member of the forum or not.. and voting within the forum is possible since a variety of voting has been carried out in various forum contests in the past.
Anyhow.. that's my opinion... and if there is some kind of reason for having had moved this particular contest over to discord that I am failing/refusing to remember or perhaps a good one (if that's even possible?), then I am more than willing to reverse my opinion as it currently stands, as ill-informed as it might be,
currently.
I will repeat what I've said in previous years: This is supposed to be a fun little* event. If someone tries to ruin the fun they will likely be disqualified anyway. And if this stops being fun for people it will stop being organized.
Personally, I still believe it is fun - even if some of us (including yours truly) might disagree (or be disagreeable) about some of the parts.
Let's call this a social experiment with prizes. From the start, I didn't want to create rules for every conceivable case, caveat and exemption. There is no such thing as a perfect system anyway.
So far nobody ruined our fun and am hoping this will continue this year!
* This is not such a little event anymore. Las year we had a record 50 entries, now over double that... 113 pizzas! Thank you @John Abraham for you help in posting the (many) entries that were missing.
As every year, I truly am hoping our fun won't be spoiled this year either because some of us have some big ideas for next year's event!
hahahahahaha
Kind of like bitcoins.. aka dee cornz.. aka my lil precious... aka honey badger
Can you scale? and do you (the "pizza contest" system) have staying power?
Time will tell. Time will tell.
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If I can suggest a valid alternative for next year, I suggest you keep the contest within the forum and use the merit system for voting with the max limit. of only 1 merit as a vote. This does not allow external votes and keeps the vote closely linked to the pizza and its success.
I might well admit that this is much better said
(more diplomatically phrased) than mine.. and even posted prior in time to mine.
this is fun contest so let it be same it's intended to be free from any rules and restrictions.
That's a bit of a loosey goosey definition of fun.
I can think of a lot of situations in which fun is contained within some boundaries, and therefore having some boundaries and guidance might well allow for the games to be more fun - largely because everyone would be on notice regarding what are the parameters of the game.. even if there may also be a large number of informalities contained within the rules (guidances).
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