@Kiwi66

I wasn't trying to make it about this specific contest, my original comment about was just talking in general, I didn't say "you know that user right there...he doesn't deserve it". I was just saying we have had people like that in the past.

However there is so many articles I doubt you would be commenting just for the sake of it, I mean a user would have an entire month to do it.

All I was trying to respectfully say is maybe they should add a certain number of comments before someone, not you, can be in the lottery draw. It would weed out most inactive users and actually would push people a little to get involved more in the comments drawing in traffic. Even if someone said "Oh I've gotten a 100 comments, I'm entered" and did nothing else then fair enough.

That's all. Nothing bad on you or anyone else. It was just a small part of the original comment...not the point or focus of that said comment.

Here's the thing:

1. What you propose is harder to manage than just random and I've tried some different stuff, but it usually takes me 8+ hours just to do that. So, I prefer to keep it to a simple lottery. I've requested some tools that will help with this, but there are other important things being worked on right now.

2. I'd rather do a lottery contest than nothing at all when I can. I've tried my best to move away from it as I would rather reward active participation than anything else. But, every once in a while, a random lottery will pop up.

" I've tried my best to move away from it as I would rather reward active participation than anything else"

What would you call active participation ideas then? If it's things similar to the contributing one then I don't think many people stand a chance. I mean I'm on the site a bit despite having two jobs, having a smart phone makes it easy BUT trying to submit articles on top of all that where certain members have already nailed that down. It's not giving everyone a chance if other ideas are like that.

No hate on that contributing people, you do a great job but not many of us are going to bother to try since you all seem to know the ins and outs of it, kind of like a "why bother if X, Y and Z will most likely win again". Although saying that I guess it's better then Filmwatch, it's even worse on their, with the users who win every month you don't even need to announce them.

I can understand it's hard to come up with new ideas but I think the lottery at the minute is the only thing which is the most fair. Even things like art competitions and the like focuses on peoples personal skills where people might have better skills then others you know. If you have an artist who draws an amazing picture and another who can't draw for s*** but both still try you know who's going to win.

I can't even think myself what other ideas you could do

The haiku one you did was decent. I like the prediction ones but without knowing what you can do as you've said you might not have the tools for it then I don't know what to request.

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