Hey brother...
I've been thinking about how to solve the "potential" problem that could arise from indiscriminate tagging - without much success. I personally don't think it is a big deal but it could definitely become a concern for witnesses if more people were to follow this model. I see a couple good suggestions here as well as in the other TAM contest threads, and i'm sure any combination of them will help you to improve the competition overall.
My only addition would be to maybe require the tagged person to interact in order for whoever tagged them to win whatever prize - regardless of their participation in the contest, whoever receives the tag has to acknowledge receiving it - also so the 'tagger" can advance to the next number. This could eliminate the indiscriminate aspect of things, however it adds a layer of complexity (or two) that may deter some from participating at all. No easy answers for this one unfortunately.
I was introduced to the competition through someone tagging me, granted I've had previous interactions with him before, but I think it's that "random" dynamic that makes what your doing work. Interactions between strangers should be promoted rather than discouraged - especially here. You have my support however you decide to proceed.
Srry - I haven't been spending too much time here lately - I'm in the process of wrapping up a couple big jobs and I've been investing a lot of my available time into Lunyr and Synereo Wildspark (other platforms).
Thanks a mil for this bud. As one of the other chaps said if we overcomplicate it, it will lose its appeal and that is the last thing i want. I am going to try this week and maybe next week as per @em3 s suggestion to do two smaller ones so it will be 2 x 5SBD contests, same prize in two contest just shortened so the top prize will be say comment 170 and not 270 as to avoid massive volumes of comments and a while for the page to load ( I dont want to do this as i am loving the million views and comments) but feel almost forced to so lets try that and see how it goes for a start? Also i plan to put in a previsor for contestants to only tag friends they know and love and thirdly to please not tag this that and the next person as they have expressed their desires as such. Will you pop in This Wed and then ill run another Friday I think? Tell me about Lunyr and Synereo ? Similar to Steemit? Thanks for popping in brother!! Cheer$;)
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Another option is for the "tagger" to give a reason why they tagged the person in their comment:
Example would be - I am tagging @whoever because in their last post about XXX, they said XXX and I disagree/agree for XXX reasons...
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I just signed up for Lunyr it seems exceptionally formal? I don't see a Wildspark signup page please send me the url or ref code bud, Thanks brother. I really do like Steemit though but will check out Wildspark too I am not sure Lunyr will work for me you are way more factual than me ;)
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Lunyr is a really cool platform - Wikipedia killer IMO. I've been involved since the closed alpha testing and I love everything about it. There are a lot of problems right now but the devs are steadily working them out.
Wildspark has been around for a while now but an important update happens tomorrow - where the platform supports text (blogging) in addition to video. Completely different model from Steemit - No whales controlling 95% of the platform. Genuine decentralization where content is "amped" (monetized) based on merit and community preference, rather than "he with the most wins"... I will send you a sign up link when I get home - in my other computer...
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ahh that sounds great bud.. I like how wildspark sounds, so also in its infancy. Can one copy ones own posts from here over that side or do you think that would be 'frowned upon'??
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I would imagine the preference will be for original content - I anticipate some of the same preventative measures you see here to be implemented there - cheetah bot etc. I'm looking forward to putting out some of my better writing (never saw the point in posting it here basically for free) - the real advantage over Steemit IMO is in the "attention economy" where curators dictate the financial success of any specific content rather than the limited number of large stakeholders.
Wildspark.me to signup...
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