I really don't understand why overcomplicating things using Discord when we already have the forum. Many people didn't even submit their pizzas on Discord because they don't have it/don't use it. I never use it.
I also do not understand this. Why use another site / app for a contest organized by our forum? It makes no sense for me.
And it also felt like a mill stone for me, knowing that I have to create an account somewhere else in order to participate. In fact, this also stopped me from participating to these contests. At some point, I did not have a Discord account and I did not want to create one only for participating to this contest.
After a while I made such account but I only participated once. However, I never used that account for anything else. As a consequence, I also deleted my Discord account.
Besides, as far as I see, holding the contest there led to (way too) many complaints.
For example, I consider
acroman08's idea a very suitable one. For those not aware, RickDeckard organized the
pie baking contest using rules from
BitcoinTalk Community Awards 2022. In fact he also opened
a thread where rules were discussed before applying them and, after receiving enough feedback from the community, he decided to use rules from BCA 2022, which were slightly adjusted.
And, as some of you may remember, the rules used last year at BCA 2022 led to less drama. Similar reactions were encountered during the pie baking contest, therefore I tend to believe that those rules were good.
Perhaps using similar rules also for pizza baking contest would dramatically reduce the number of complaints and accusations.