RE: 🏆 Change to Fantasy Sports Prizes
I appreciate your opinion and a part of me shares it.
The difficulty is with this update that I made 4 months ago where I say:
This is still only eligible for teams that have officially entered and users who are actively posting and commenting on Steemit. This will prevent me from transferring STEEM to people who have left the platform or who ignore notifications from me.
I have continued to transfer prizes as liquid STEEM but unfortunately, I'm still transferring STEEM to people leaving the platform and one user who has done well hasn't posted for 2 months and is 100% powering down. In my opinion, this makes them ineligible for the final prizes but this opinion could be considered as subjective so I want to remove any ambiguity and treat everybody the same. Another example is the current leader of UCL (the one which isn't me) - he hasn't been active for 4 months now.
Since starting these contests, I want every decision that I make to be for the good of the entire community - long term. Knowing that prizes are leaving the platform doesn't achieve this. When I look around at the sporting community on Steemit, it feels like it's getting smaller with each week that passes.
I should probably have gone further in my update 4 months ago but things have changed even more since then. (With a few exceptions) it feels as though the sporting community has powered down. A huge proportion of the prizes I've distributed have left the platform. If I "allow" another 200 STEEM (for example) to leave the platform between now and the end of the season, that's 200 STEEM that won't be upvoting anybody's content.
Every decision feels wrong.
Empatizo contigo en ese sentido, durante los últimos concursos que llegue a realizar no me di cuenta que estaban participando muchas cuentas falsas, que por cierto actualmente sacaron todo ese Steem a una misma billetera, no me gustaría que te suceda lo mismo, aunque creo que si verificas mejor que yo.
Sinceramente nunca fui de los que verificaba mucho y como no era un concurso de apreciación sino más bien de cálculo de puntos según los partidos reales, solo me importaba hacer un buen trabajo y ya.
Ahora ese desangramiento de la comunidad deportiva me duele también, porque es lo que más me gusta desarrollar en la plataforma, así que mantener viva esta categoría será vital para los amantes de deporte.
Saludos mi pana!
I've tried to be very careful with checking people who have entered - having done a lot with @endingplagiarism, I had a good idea of what to look for with entries and there were a few that tried to enter multiple teams. And then they thought it was unfair when I banned all of their teams and didn't let them keep one!
Unfortunately, there's a lot of people on Steemit who are intent on "cheating". Some even openly admit it and see it as a game, trying not to get caught. I sometimes wonder if any of the new accounts in the Newcomers' Community are genuine 🤷♂️
We do our best, that's all we can do 🙂