Topic: [Discussion] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆 - page 14. (Read 20446 times)

Whoops. I am afraid voting for this year contest has already closed as 60 days from start of contest have passed, sir. Voting thread has been locked a few days ago by Gazeta.

Just a small correction, I won Scambuster award narrowly beating marlboroza by 4 votes, and not the Spambuster one.


I just realized that I totally forgot to vote so gonna do that first thing tomorrow so thnx for reminder.  

While votes counting is still in progress, I thought to take a look in the past and see some nice statistics from previous two editions of BitcoinTalk Community Awards!

First of all, let's remember the winners and the runner-ups:

2020 edition


2021 edition


- there were 16 unique winners during both contests: hilariousandco, suchmoon, Rikafip, CryptopreneurBrainBoss, Ratimov, o_e_l_e_o, LoyceV, Hhampus, Lauda, satoshi, theymos, TryNinja, n0nce, lovemayfamilis, franky1 and Foxpup

- 6 of them managed to earn two prizes at different categories; from these, 3 managed to win at different categories: hilariousandco (Best Moderator in both years), o_e_l_e_o (Bitcoin Geek in both years), Hhampuz (Craft Master in both years), Ratimov (Discovery of the Year - 2020, SpamBuster - 2021), LoyceV (BitcoinTalk Ninja - 2020, Golden Feather - 2021), Lauda (Antihero, Miss Bitcointalk)

- curiously, while many expected TryNinja to win at BitcoinTalk Ninja category, he did not succeed in 2020; he took his revenge though, in 2021, by winning

- most votes a winner had: Ratimov was elected in 2021 as Best Spam Buster with 157 votes, followed by Hhampuz, with 151 (winner at Craft Master category) and TryNinja, also in 2021 (winner at BitconTalk Ninja category)

- smallest number of votes a winner had: o_e_l_e_o was elected in 2020 as Bitcoin Geek with 21 votes, followed by Rikafip and Ratimov, 2020 winners of Scambuster and Discovery of the Year Category, both receiving 31 votes

- biggest difference between first place and second place: 102 votes difference between Hhampuz and Maus0728 (Craft Master); 74 votes difference between Ratimov and actmyname (Spam Buster); 46 votes difference between TryNinja and LoyceV (BitcoinTalk Ninja) and also 46 votes difference between theymos and satoshi -- a sort of clash of the titans -- (Hero of Good). All these differences were recorded at second edition of the contest.

- smallest difference between first place and second place: 1 vote difference between theymos and satoshi -- again, a sort of clash of the titans -- (also at Hero of Good category); 2 votes difference between Ratimov and fillippone (Discovery of the Year); 4 votes difference between o_e_l_e_o and theymos (Bitcoin Geek). All these differences were recorded at first edition of the contest.

- unluckiest nominee: DdmrDdmr, by far. He was elected once on second place (Golden Feather - 2021) and four times on third place (Discovery of the Year - 2020, Bitcointalk Ninja - 2020 & 2021, Craft Master - 2020) each time being close to win but without succeeding. Needless to say, he also got fourth place twice and once a seventh place, at other categories Oo Maybe he'll be lucky at third edition of the contest?

That's all for now, let's return to votes counting

We are grateful for your effort and dedication.
Now is where the real difficulty begins, since the task of counting votes is not an easy one.

With patience, we hope that the work goes well.

Ladies and gentlemen,

The 60 days of voting for Bitcointalk Community Awards 2022 edition have passed today, as the contest was started on November 18th, 2022. I still can't believe that two months already passed, as it was like days before when the new contest was launched

Thank you all for the participation and involvement!

At a first sight, it seems that the new rules helped so far. As a plus, I believe that this year we also faced less votes from ineligible users (I am not 100% certain of that but this is how I feel, by looking through the posts). Obviously, this also helps during votes counting. Nevertheless, thank you also for trying to keep voting thread as clean as possible.

And, speaking of votes counting, I am announcing you that the process has started today and it will last 1-2 weeks at max. During this period the voting topic will be locked, until the list of winners will be officially announced.

Thank you all once more! Soon it's time to paaaarty! 

Loooooool in November it barely started, how could it end in November?


My dear Sceptical Chymist, according to icopress' OP,


The topic was posted on November 18th. It should not be mistakenly considered to be the same with Discussion topic, which is the topic were we are talking now Discussion topic was created a bit earlier than voting thread, for letting people know that a new contest will be done, for agitating spirits and so on But voting was initiated on November 18, therefore we are like a stone throw away from the moment when it will end.

Don't worry about it, you're just making sure your votes don't count:

Oh crap.  Did I violate this rule?  I was checking the OP to see when this contest was over with and the votes tallied when I stumbled across this--and no, I didn't read the rules at any time before this (oops).  My apologies if I merited anyone who nominated me, and I'm just too damn lazy to check. 

So in case I missed it, when will this be over?  If I'm seeing things correctly, the voting should have ended at some point in November.  All my brain fogginess aside, what am I missing here?

Hahahaha it's a honey trap.

But you are nailing it.

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^^^ It's all an illusion guys... all illusion back off

This was a surprise. What do you say shahzadafzal? It's a trap? 😂

That's him https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/darkstar-20914
Obviously you were not supposed to hear about him. And we all know well that the mentioned user was not him too 😉

FTFY

 

For that alone, you should win an award! 
They could even create a specific category: Prize for Those Who Don't Want Prizes. 

Yeah, I realize I made my username way more cumbersome for members to write out and *gah!* I apologize from the bottom of my charcoal-blackened heart.  Just refer to me as TSC or Chymist and I think everyone will know who you mean.  And if not, it's probably not important anyway.  Lol.

Bah!  My pronouns are he and him, by the way, not they.  That's a joke, so laugh.  And I already made it clear that I don't want any votes and don't want to win anything, so if the name change messes everything up, it's no skin off my back.

Yeah, we've probably already got the simplest form of voting, so adding the requirement for including a link to the profile or worse the illegible userids, that's just a recipe for disaster, and will likely just end up invalidating a ton of votes or make the vote counting job a lot harder than it already is.

Whether or not incorrectly spelt usernames are included in the voting is up to the one counting the votes I suppose. It should be fairly easy to determine what they meant in most cases, but it could potentially be a can of worms in a few situations.

Yeah, when the voting started, I saw someone voting for "Lafu01" and I have forgotten it since a while but recently, I browsed submissions of new voters and saw "Lafu01" again. As far as I've checked, "Lafu01" has been voted for 3 times. 
So, posing a hint for that, maybe these members nominating "Lafu01" will edit their comments and new voters will finally stop copy pasting existing comments and also stop including errors. 

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Yes, if in question, looking up those names (we have plenty platforms for this like BPIP, DdmdDdmr's Merit Dashboard, or even some sites from LoyceV like his Trust List Viewer), should be easy. At least, it would require voters to put in some effort. 

I didn't expect this response from someone with an underscore in his nickname

Craft Master, seems to suit him. As a campaign manager as well as someone who help the community with bitcoin lending services, that's why some people need to nominate them. I don't know her much more than that, but as one of participant in signature campaigns he's managed, I think you know her a lot better.

So, Who is DarkStar? 

DarkStar? Who is this guy?  I am sure he deserves a lot, whichever category he has been nominated for, but I never heard of him.

Some username are hard to write without looking at the profile for few times, sometimes that's why voters copy and paste from other users. But for "Lafu", I think even though they close their eyes they still seem to be able to write it, unless there is username change with combined. So if that's wrong, I don't think they know who they voted for.

Copy and paste is fine, but I think they still need to open the profile of the candidate they want to vote for to avoid typos. Like one of these candidates, The Skeptical Chymist - too difficult for me to write without copy and paste.

I have seen that now a few times and there are some Users have written " Lafu01 " instead of " Lafu " .
The first thing that was coming into my mined when i readed that is , that the Users that have voted with Lafu01 copied and pasted from other voters.
I guess thats the case for my name , because there is Username here on the Forum with the name Lafu01 .
Result of the " Search for members " : Sorry, no matches were found.