>Is there any specific deadline? >You could have 5 awards each month, or winner of the month or winner >of the week.
Pleaes don't, it will become cheap. Rather you pull all your resources for one single competition and one big award, relatively speaking. >Muthu is right - there should be some physical award connected to the >honor of the award, to make it feel more real :-) Even if it is just a >T-Shirt, or a mug with the Bug-droid :-) I would suggest minimum $100 dollars in prize value. Doesn't have to be cash. Otherwise it will just be boring to most people, I think. >Also on YouTube people create multiple accounts and vote and comment >on themselves to push their videos. I heard, some in the music >industry buy their own CDs to push record sales... some comedian said >she bought 20 TVs to push her new comedy series. Well - why not? :-) Yeah, this is definitely much mor fair than this contest. On May 8, 4:09 am, Peli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any specific deadline? > You could have 5 awards each month, or winner of the month or winner > of the week. > > Or organize this more like on YouTube: > Most votes today / last week / last month / ever... > Most comments > Most downloads > ... > > Muthu is right - there should be some physical award connected to the > honor of the award, to make it feel more real :-) Even if it is just a > T-Shirt, or a mug with the Bug-droid :-) > > Also on YouTube people create multiple accounts and vote and comment > on themselves to push their videos. I heard, some in the music > industry buy their own CDs to push record sales... some comedian said > she bought 20 TVs to push her new comedy series. Well - why not? :-) > > Peli > > On May 8, 9:39 am, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Living Sword, > > > We have independent parties lined up to audit the results. You're right > > self-voting by creating multiple accounts or vote-swapping could be a > > problem. Those are some of the things we are working on now. Any suggestions > > are also welcome. > > > Shane > > > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:24 AM, living_sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If u can prevent peer-influencing, mutual-voting and self-voting then > > > u got a nice contest going. > > > > On May 8, 12:07 pm, Shane Isbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Actually, anyone is free to submit to SlideME Awards the same app they > > > > did for the ADC. Shouldn't be much effort for many people. It will > > > > also be interesting to see if the community chooses the same > > > > applications as the ADC judges. My guess is it will be very different. > > > > > Shane > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
