When running giveaways, the aim is to make people happy with a bountiful supply of free booty that they didn’t have before. In this one we had planned on making just one person’s day with a costly lump of Android tech, but in an unlikely turn of events, we’re doing just that for more than the original one. Allow me to explain.
The rule of the competition was that the most upvoted comment wins. Simple and clean, but things got messy when the Disqus commenting system seemed to throw away all the guest upvotes from the top comment after someone decided to flag the comment as inappropriate. So we’re left with a comment that had the most upvotes, and a comment that has the most upvotes. Given the circumstances, it seems unfair to penalise one over the other due to a possible Disqus bug, so Tiago Andrade will be getting the Galaxy S5, and DJ Mike One will get the Z2 tablet.
There is another…
We do however have one more winner, someone who the Algoriddim and the DJWORX team felt could do something good with an Android tablet, and that person is Erik Kubik. His comment struck a chord with us in that he wants to give something back to the community by making loopers. Erik — be sure to email your address to contact at djworx dotcom.
Congrats mates! I want another type of Z2… Could we arrange that? haha
So someone knows how to abuse the system, gets called out but still wins an S5? Integrity right out the window. Goodbye DJWorx.
That’s one way to look at it. Here’s my viewpoint.
Two people used their social media to boost their comments, only one of which got called out. Given that both did used same tactic to try and win, is it fair to penalise one over the other? Anyone could have done it – it wasn’t explicitly against the rules — perhaps it should have been.
Not only that — we decided to reward the person who we felt represented the spirit of the competition and the community. As it turns out, that person had the third highest votes. So even if I’d unfairly cancelled the top two entries, the third place got what they wanted anyway.
So instead of just a single winner, there are three. That’s a good thing right?
I made mistakes, and learned that this type of upvote competition isn’t something that I want to do again. But integrity is not just intact, and apparent in droves.
I didn’t win either but I ain’t bitching about it … stuff happens.
Wow thanks! I really appreciate the prize! The app I am working on is still in development but we hope to have it out for Christmas. Thanks again to Algoriddim and DJ worx. You guys are awesome!
Erik, I’m so glad you got a prize. Keep us abreast of details concerning your loop app :)