Who decides the winners?


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Anything but votes via google pls.  

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Posted by Jarace

The users of Graalians.com and GraalOnline staff will have an equal say in selecting the winners.

Posted by LiA

Anything but votes via google pls.

It's probably going to have to be a Google form. As I mentioned, we can't use a poll on the forums (which I think I might have liked the best). Discord is probably off the table, I know a lot of people here aren't in the Discord and I'm not sure there is currently a functional invite link.

I plan to ask for the voter's email and their Graalians.com username in the form to prove they have an account here.  

Posted by Jarace

I plan to ask for the voter's email and their Graalians.com username in the form to prove they have an account here.

So are you going to match the Graalian's registered email address to the form? If it doesn't match, are you going notify that the voter's vote got nullified?

What's your plan for flooding new account registration? For last 7 years, they manually approved to prevent spammy accounts, but with this event I'd expect like 100+ new register request every day. Do they even qualify for voting?  

Posted by Zetectic

So are you going to match the Graalian's registered email address to the form? If it doesn't match, are you even going notify that the voter's vote got nullified?

What's your plan for flooding new account registration? For last 7 years, they manually approved to prevent spammy accounts, but with this event I'd expect like 100+ new register request every day. Do they even qualify for voting?

If the voter's email doesn't match their registration email, I plan to send them a forum message asking if they were the one who voted and nullify their vote unless the user tells me it was their vote. Should we go the Google form route, it will be clearly stated that your email needs to match the one on your Graalians.com account.

I'm considering adding a cut off date (ex. accounts created after some date don't get to vote) so people don't try and register a bunch of new alternate accounts to cheat the system.

I don't think registration will be flooded, though. Should I have reason to believe otherwise?

I'm just discussing the voting methods and they aren't set in stone quite yet.  

because so many people submitted their videos thru offsite. they seem to not have a graalians account. so if the voting opens, they are going to register and also invite their friends to register. which is good for graalians tbh. the forums been dead for awhile actually. this might be a good time to bring it back to life. who knows?  

humourous

 

hold a contest to celebrate graalians -> most submissions from outside of graalians and polls not even being held here

:thinking:  

This is probably too much work as the contest is held throughout multiple servers but since the contest was publicly advertised in the news, why can't there just be an in-game voting system via automated broadcast(s)/or an additional temporary in-game menu option that allows you to select the videos that you enjoy from the submitted list(either a post filled with the video entries from Graalians.com or a website)? Since the game already has a hold of our account information, I assume it would be easy to tell if someone is using more than one account to vote or not.. If not, then there is still the option of having only "verified" accounts(with minimum hours of ##) to vote in-game, which would be a way better option imo than having everyone sign up to vote via Graalians.com.  

Posted by eden_

humourous

I'm actually living for this Nicki v. Cardi parody omg.  

lmfao Heeble..  

Posted by Crono

hold a contest to celebrate graalians -> most submissions from outside of graalians and polls not even being held here

:thinking:

Yeah, I understand your sentiment. That's a large reason why I'd like to keep voting restricted to Graalians users, even if the actual voting method isn't a poll on the site.

Posted by LiA

This is probably too much work as the contest is held throughout multiple servers but since the contest was publicly advertised in the news, why can't there just be an in-game voting system via automated broadcast(s)/or an additional temporary in-game menu option that allows you to select the videos that you enjoy from the submitted list(either a post filled with the video entries from Graalians.com or a website)? Since the game already has a hold of our account information, I assume it would be easy to tell if someone is using more than one account to vote or not.. If not, then there is still the option of having only "verified" accounts(with minimum hours of ##) to vote in-game, which would be a way better option imo than having everyone sign up to vote via Graalians.com.

Probably not going to happen since it would be pretty short notice, but this is a cool idea nonetheless.  

My submission for promotional and humorous.
I know its not the best video, but I tried my best and failed miserably :#
But I hope some of you guys will find it entertaining :3  

Good luck everyone participating looks like some heavy hitters showed up to show their talents for the benifit of us all

You wizards and your magical technology  

Graal classic trailer (promotion)