Topic: [Discussion] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆 - page 17. (Read 19922 times)

Okay, let the baws handle this

Being serious now, as far as I understood, the situation is the following:

- fillippone nominated mendace and mendace gave him a merit
- fillippone did not nominate icopress and icopress gave him a merit.

As far as I see the situation, the result is the following:
- fillippone's vote for mendace, will not be counted, because of the merit mendace sent to fillippone
- in case fillippone will change his vote (in the amount of time the contest will allow him to do it) and he will nominate icopress at a category, then this vote will also not be counted.

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I guess this is one of a kind contest, where even the organizer receives a (potential) penalty, but since we are on a forum which is so harsh that even Satoshi has been banned, when can we expect?

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I am sorry, but the rules were stated from the very beginning... Anyway, at least, now you know them Don't worry too much though, it's just one vote uncounted.

It's a shame the community doesn't have an official award event to honor these unsung heroes who keep these places running. Not everything is about money, and some people actually enjoy being recognized for the little things they do publicly. Or am I mistaken in thinking that the icopress community award is the official one? Mprep, Mr Big, hilariousandco, and you, your work is underappreciated because voters are only interested in those who have given them a lot of merit and those who have a lot of merit to buy favors. It's a forum where the merit sources outnumber popular than the administrators.

fun fact: LoyceV is more popular than theymos, and I'm sure there are many users who have no idea who theymos is. Owning something does not require you to hide ; Elon makes the most tweets on Twitter and he owns it with a lot of money in his pocket.

sorry, but dont speak for my community, we are horny birds and we would love to see it.

still better than having none. lol

transgender donations? nope it would be odd for my eye sight

nice information!

i think there are still many members who don't know this information, there are still many participants that i saw chose you as miss bitcointalk

There's some real unsung heroes in the reporting scene as an example. Not every user is vocal about how much they report, and while they might do this for a reason; it's a shame they don't get a little bit of recognition for the work they put in.

Same as some of the moderators; mprep is well thought of, and rightly so. However, there's a few in the background that just chug along. As one example, Mr Big does a ton of work, as I see how much they edit, and merge replies. That's just an example of what I see. There's others really working hard to make this place a better place, and it's a shame that they also aren't getting to recognition which I believe they deserve, but at the end of the day they might not want it.

Also, merit sources. There's a ton of those that work really hard on distributing to users that they think deserve it, but also need it to rank up. There's also some other things that we could pin point in the community which has been monumental in the forum's success. I'd probably like to see fail of the year, and non forum categories be removed in favour of them. I now fail of the year is kind of a fun little vote though.

I think I talk for the majority of the community on this; no one wants to see this, please don't .

At the end of the day who you vote for is your discretion, and even if I wouldn't agree with your reasoning, it's down to you. Ultimately, the community has to have the same sort of logic/reasoning since the user with the most votes; wins. So, while defining categories is all well, and good it's likely going to be taken with a pinch of salt, and given some sort of freedom of vote anyhow. At least by the majority of voters.

Plagiarism and spam both can be easily solved by just reporting it to the moderators. So I still think the spam buster category mostly for to the mods to evaluate.

Compering to the amount of money lost by the people from FTX the prize is not even 0.00000001% LOL


If we were in a bull run then would you go with the green dildo 😂?

I am looking for a perfect gif.

You need to visit WO and find conversations that happened 3 years ago. Good luck 😂

Excuse me, I reacted instinctively to Filippone's appointment not knowing about the merit rule.  If there is a penalty I will have to accept it.

In these questions, Gazeta BOSS, so this is a question for him.

Dear all,
I posted my nomination here:


As I said, the post was not definitive, as I have to clear my mind on a few categories.
I just wanted to post it because I didn’t want to forget about it.

I got two merits:

• @mendace, who wasn’t aware of the “merit rule”. I informed him on the Italian discussion thread, he probably will be penalised for that, but I have a little concern for this (it was his fault, after all)
• I got a merit from @icopress, who isn’t mentioned in this post. What happen if I decide to nominate him? He gave a merit before being nominated… so we cannot imply anything, but what happens at the end of the day? If I nominate him, the vote will be counted or not?

That would be unfair to lovesmayfamilies, the forum's only known mom with many children; imagine you, yahoo62278, and Bitcoingirl.club winning this category without having a boobs. I'll definitely vote for it as 'fail of the year' next year.


The last time I addressed Bitcoingirl.club as SHE, he shut me down, and I'm still puzzled as to why he chose to answer a Girl.

If it helps me get elected as Miss Bitcointalk, I could promise a picture of my (man)boobs if I win

If FTX wins fail of the year, the money should be donated to legitimate victims or something, as I know three users from my local thread who were affected by the FXT drama, and if Bitcointalk show wins fail of the year, the money should be sent to theymos wallet I knew the YouTube thing would fail, just like the Bitcointalk discord pizza community did.


Nothing would change much unless icopress limits this category to the top three reporters only (names listed) so that anyone could simply vote from there because as long as the top reporters information is limited to only a few people, people will continue to vote random people with low or no spam bursting history.

We shouldn't vote in the spambusting category in the first place because we already have the top spambusters.



LoyceV is a MAN and a dad with with two kids ( a boy and a girl) just like some of us, at least that's what i know so you should start addressing him as HE. 

well you made a good point but why did you crop me out of your reply?

Yes.. LoyceV is equally right in what he/she just said above, and thats why for me,  I think for a user to be eligible to vote, he/she must have been a registered member of the forum for at least 90days and earned a minimum of 50 merits. As this is an important stuff which requires people who are serious about the forum, because of what benefits will it be allowing an ordinary Newbie to vote, who barely have little or hasn't known people that much on these forum, as it always take time for a serious minded beginner to be familiar with forum names.

So since "Merits" can be easily farmed, "Activity" on the other hand, is one stuff that can't be easily farmed, which is what plays a big difference

According to Wikipedia, an antihero is not necessarily the 'opposite of a hero'. There is no 100% definitive definition either, though, but we did get a small definition in the OP!

In my opinion, for such a contest (and because there is a price to win), think about 'main character in a story who may lack conventional heroic qualities and attributes'; I'll be looking for a user who is doing valuable contributions to the forum and / or Bitcoin in general, while lacking some 'conventional heroic attributes'. In this forum's context that could be maybe having a bad (hard to understand) writing style, bad English skills, not being very active or also being a shitcoin supporter. Such a user could still provide great value to the forum and not qualify for other categories.

So what if instead of focusing on users who reported the most posts, focus on users who open topics to talk about these cases of plagiarism and spam. Could this be wrong reasoning?

Antihero seem fine. We are having a forum user but Fail of the Year, Event of the Year are two categories not for forum users. It's more likely a global event related to bitcoin or even not related to bitcoin. How would we decide who to get the prize for the two categories.

Not to mention again as I always like to discuss, Miss Bitcointalk is a category we don't even know who is what (I even got some nomination, same for yahoo too lol) and SpamBuster is a category where we have no numbers (I received a PM from Cyrus about it by the way, he said he will see what he can do). In fact even numbers are not enough. Someone can report 100 posts but moderator who is handling it may find he is a poor reporter on the other hand, someone reported 10 reports but he will be found a quality reporter. It's complete something to be evaluated by the people who handle reports not by the regular forum members.

maybe it was already said somewhere, but I just found a position about this.
What about the winners from the "negative" category like Fail of the Year or Antihero? they will be nominated because of something bad they did, can they get rewards for something that most users have condemned as wrong?

Yaay, nice to hear. 


Good point, I didn't follow the event last year very closely as I have been a bit more busy last year, so I didn't remember all the details but nice to know prices are distributed to more members for our new round, which is a very positiv adjustment in my opinion.


Exactly, receiving such a physical product and still maintaining privacy is a big issue, so maybe we will see some free bets on Betnomi's site as icopress has suggested that there will be more random prizes this year.

It's a raffle that requires address information from the winner, which for me is a reason not to join. From what I've seen, many users share this concern.

In fact, there will be more random prizes this year as the cold wallets raffle won't stop while this event continues (the problem is that all the slots in the current raffle are not filled yet). In addition, those who have already voted can take two slots (and the link to the raffle is fixed in the OP).

I think you were a little inattentive, because if we compare with last year, we had only 11 main winners, and now we will have 30 prizes (1, 2, 3 places in each of the categories). In addition, the winners in the cold wallet raffle are also determined using the blockchain.

I also have a user that I nominate for Discovery of the Year: citb0in

He registered in july of this year and he has earned 300 merits. His main interest so far is bitcoin mining and he has already organized some solo mining attempts in his thread citb0in Solo-Mining Group - BLOCK SOLVERS (english). He is also very active on the development & technical discussion board trying to understand how bitcoin works. It is certainly a good user of the forum and actively uses it to increase its knowledge of bitcoin. From my point of view he is an enrichment for the forum. That's why I'm nominating him this year.

I voted for him here.