Contest Support wrote:
GoldMiner wrote:
As long as you get facebook point this contest will never be fair or objective, same goes with member profile, just get all your friend to create one account and you are done.
The only way to make it fair would be to be evaluated only based on Dukascopy points.
We believe, this wouldn't be fair as well. We give a lot of freedom of choice in matters of topic and format of articles, the entry barrier is as low as possible. If the standings would depend solely on the expert opinion, it would be very hard to compare them. Let me use a metaphor: some people like apples more than oranges(still, both are fruit), and vice versa.
At the present moment, we let the public decide what they like most, so that then we can choose from top 20 authors. This makes things easier for us and the final score more transparent for Participants. Imagine for a seconds there were 200 users and imagine the numerous questions like "why you don't like my article"?
What i feel is Facebook "like" should have lesser value and the comments and discussion from the DFC should have more value when it comes to public decision. The reason is, i am from a country with 1.2 Billion population and getting 1000 facebook likes is just few hours work for me as i have nearly 1000 friends from all accounts.
When we write an article it should be useful or entertaining to those who are interested in that particular field than some one who doesn't know the basics of forex or trading but they sheepishly follow our requests and vote the article which infact doesn't serve our hard work.
In my opinion, Dukascopy points should have 50% weightage and 40% on DFC comments and likes and rest 10% may be Facebook "like"
Expert team certainly knows what is best and their decision is always final and participants mostly accepts their decision except a few...