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- Saleem
Two things: Safety and Revenue
Safety
Sports leagues will return with stringent policies around testing and distancing, e.g. the NBA:
If I was a team captain I would want to understand the protocols a competition organizer had in place to keep my team safe. I think this would make me further...
sees first topic, cries
(kidding. Yall know I'm open to any changes to BTF to help the community. Whether that's mods kickstarting discussions, banning unhelpful trolls, or moving to the FB group)
I know youre not attacking, it's all good. Competitions can try out new stuff. I think (as I think I wrote too many years ago now lol) that the solution is
well thought-out rubrics so that we reward and incentivize the behavior we want
adherence to that rubric
transparency of judges selection...
Any competition can feel free to do in-venue voting. Do it by applause volume if you want, it would be fun.
But if you're looking to solve the thread topic of "Judging Bias/Rubrics"-- your solution doesn't solve anything.
Chiming in here. If you allow anyone to vote electronically (online), you're inviting spam as people will send out the link and get everyone they know to vote. In a venue of capacity 700 you might have 5,000 votes. Then it's just a social media popularity contest and no one even needs to show up...
You may have noticed a couple weeks ago that BTF's user experience improved a little bit. We went to a beta release of a new forum version. This morning we upgraded to the final release. Mostly small improvements, but FYI here are the changes (via xenforo):
Native push notifications on...