Topic: NAIJA BOARD 2024/2025 CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR contest 2nd Edition! Discussion (Read 104 times)

I really acknowledge to all moderators of naija local board to have fight to make this naija local board stand and particularly the oga that initiated this thread from the upsets, deeply I'm very grateful from the day one i came across of this thread, it keeps reshing me my bachelor life, from the day one i started cooking for myself and family as a whole and at first i was not getting the normal cooking procedure but with time and consistency in cooking make me to grow well in cooking, i can cook perfectly well. Moderator thank you for insisting this thread once again and also taken part as a member of this naija local board.

Senior men, to my understanding , I would suggest that post suggested should be of others, which means there should reputable men who can sought our post that worth meriting on this local board and refer them . This will give everyone the chance to observe merit base post and at same time enable everyone to work on quality posting so that someone else can refer them. This i refered to as joint force of progress

I never condemned meriting entries. Being rational about it has been my point from the onset. I see no reason why some persons feel it's right to cheat.

Their entries will remain valid depending on when they summited prior to the rule update.

If you already took pictures and consumed the meal before realising that you should have included a picture with your username and date on it, you can make another meal if you truly are the one who made the first one. The contest still has some days left until its closing for entries.

Will there be any exemptions for those who have already made their entries and only included their username without dates? Is the username alone not enough to verify that the meal was prepared within this period of the contest?

I was interested in joining the contest even made my dish until I realized that dates needed to be added to the username.


@Mia Chloe is it against the rule if I give entries I find attractive or to my taste a merit?

That was literally the fault of the OP. Perhaps if he needed to set new rules, he could have included it in the OP than making it as a reply when what we are expecting to see is mostly submission of those that want to partake in the contest. Perhaps, Igebotz has already suggested to the contest host to change the thread to a discussion thread and open new thread for the entry of participants which OP wanted discussion and entry to continue simultaneously.


That was exactly what happened because when OP started the thread, they didn't include the rules of including usernames and dates in the pictures before uploading which made some people who read the rules when OP created it to not include their usernames and dates. I know that new rules can be established along the line in a thread but it is also good that OP includes them in their OP thread so that it will be visible to everyone.

As for those who takes advantage of the contest thread to merit farms, nothing is hidden under the sun as they might bear the brunt in the future.


Yeah, some newbies can also want to use the thread for merit farming since it involves the upload of pictures which they can't be stopped since OP did not place a restriction on newbies but however, the idea of including a paper of their hand written username and dates make it decent not to upload fake photos.

@JJG, thank you for also making this thread lively as i can see your level of interest in this contest, hence your awarding merits to entrants uploads.


I think the contest already have it's rules of which before participating in a contest, the rules should be read. There is no excuse of ignorance for those that will not adhere to the rules in the OP.




You sounded very rude here, it is an anomaly. Please be guided

I was not going to say anything, yet I still would like to chime in based on any concerns that someone organizing might have in regards to the deployment of smerits within contests like this one, and surely it seems reasonable to set forth guidelines, including guidelines in regards to smerits, and perhaps even to change the rules about smerits if it had not been initially disclosed (or thought about) in the initial outlining of the OP.  

Surely it does tend to be better to establish most if not all of the contest rules from the beginning and to outline them in the OP, and so if the rule is established later down the road, then some members might feel that they are being unfairly high-lighted when the rule had not been clearly described in the initial OP, so I am not completely attached to either side of the discussion since surely smerit senders have a lot of discretion (perhaps exclusive discretion, until they get banned..? hahahahaha), in regards to whether or how many smerits to send, even though there have been a decent number of forum contests that also try to provide some guidelines to attempt to neutralize some of the bias that could play out from either the sending of smerits or if there might be an appearance that the contest is being used in ways to merit farm.

For sure, we know that a lot of beginner forum members will be able to receive merits by submitting photos and submissions to forum contests, and surely that is one of the risks that come from throwing any forum contest that involve the submission of photos and even trying to make sure that photos are not fake - which surely, even in this contest, even though I have tended to send some smerits to each of the entrants, I sometimes have been bothered by the lack of some kind of a piece of paper with each of the photos with user name and date, which would at least help to emphasize the need for contest participants to submit contemporary photos (even if the photo(s) might have been taken a few days prior to posting them in the thread).  

Sure there are some members who might have had forgotten to take photos as they were preparing their submission to the contest, and perhaps the rule may well need to be enforced.. no proper date and name, then not eligible for the winning of the contest.... but of course, such enforcement might also need to be reminded several times through the contest, since even well-established forum contests will sometimes not strictly enforce all of the rules of the contest that were clearly stated in the OP.

Good initiative as I have said before in PM, can't remember if I have commented on the thread or not since I was occupied for most of the festive period so wasn't that active but you don't moderate merits. You don't tell people how to merit a post as it's done based on their own interpretation of the post being worth more merit or not. People can merit based on how they see the submission as you don't expect someone that puts in an effort to be rewarded the same way with someone that just barely participated.

Instead of trying to moderate how people merit, the best decision is to take away numbers of merits as a criteria for determining the winner or qualified submission (if that was even a criteria). The criteria should be based on other things excluding merits. There's, how the dish was prepared, presentation, detail explanation, visual display etc.

The most liked participant in a competition isn't always the winners as there are other things used in the judgement so allow people like which dish they want to like but have criteria for judgement.

Yes I will
There have been some really crazy dishes here and infact there are some that I felt like the participant should waybill some over for proper checking and tasting

Well jokes aside we have some really cool dishes here and I'm pretty impressed by the entries so far plus I like the diversity in food category and texture too.

Nigerian JOLLOF is really on the heat.

That being said I have merited entries till this post.

Some entries are not valid as some were over merited for reasons that seem to be cycling.

Igebotz thanks for the moderation so far.

Anyways I suggest you stay consistent with a proper merit number so there would arise no room for the doubt of favoritism likewise CryptopreneurBrainboss.

Once again so many beautiful entries so far.

And by the way who else wants to see our mod's dish  

I'll be thrilled.

Submissions can keep coming let's triple the Naija hype.

Naija true true de hot we no Dr carry last.

Mia.......