RE: FreeCompliments Community – Seeking Recommendations to Improve Our Contest (Post of the Month / Compliment of the Month / Non-Compliment Comment of the Month)
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I think 4 per category is best and then run the polls in Threads would be the cleanest and easiest way for it to be done. Also, this would promote the Community Threads sections as well. Many people have their votes tied up and with limited VP, it's not the best option to expect people to use them in this way. You could do weekly run offs as well, but that's not really necessary if you trust your curators to be good judges of what's quality and genuine.
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Polls are a very clean approach; however, the downside to this is that running each week's nominations only through polls limits exposure to the wider community and some of the inaugural members.
I may be able to solve this by simultaneously crafting a post and a poll. This runs the risk of excessive tagging of community members (an additional 4 times per month). I can also leave tags out so that those who follow or come across my posts would vote.
There's also the issue of relying on my nominators for exceptionally timely nominations; currently, I give them some leeway in timing to submit their choices, and this would reduce it. I may be able to compensate this with slight bumps in pay (just thinking out loud here).
I originally set it up so that people could also comment under their choice if they're low on VP; alternatively, they could use a dust vote (1%). Already thought through, and shouldn't be an issue!
Anyway, thanks for the input! I'll see what others say as well.
So, you tag every single member for every post? Usually that's unnecessary for curation accounts, because they tend to get more followers than users. I myself wouldn't want to get tagged at all, because if I wanted to participate, I'd keep an eye out for the Article, because they tend to be on a schedule, correct? Also, PeakD has polls as well. I'm not sure about ecency, but you could make a different comment for polls on different UI's.
Just the inaugural members get tagged (you can see the list on some of my posts, with an opt-out option - most people did not opt out).
Interesting, didn't see how the polls function on other frontends. May be worth a look!