One more thing, don't allow the top 50 ADC winners to participate. We already know that their apps are the best.
On May 8, 5:16 am, Incognito <[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. > > 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 -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
