MarshallR@ASUS wrote:
The alternative is we give new signups 1 vote. We still want to encourage voting, rather than limit it to those who are only invested in the competition already. It's also the reason why we take the top 10 votes and the entire ROG teams decide between them to pick a winner, so it's not only 'most friends wins'.
While I understand what you are saying, feels unfair to people who don't necessarily have a lot of friends to register and vote, so their entry might not even make the top 10. Or vice versa, someone with less than great entry but with a lot of friends will squeeze out someone with a great entry.
This is why i think some people are not that excited about this idea.
I mean I understand why you guys do this.. you want the voting and competition to invite more people to ROG and ASUS and get a maximum return from the PR perspective but I think it's not entirely fair.
But if you wanted to organize something like this you should have made the competition public, announced it everywhere (Facebook, Twitter etc), created a one page site and allowed everyone to vote and if ROG members are logged in they could have voted 3 points. This way, even those without a lot of friends can be voted for by the internet.
The way it is now (competition initiated on a forum level), people who participated will reach out to their friends, get them to vote and those who visited forum and submitted their entry will have to fight with those who have more friends.
I think that's unfortunate.