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Originally Posted by WarpToken
While I agree with users having _some_ say in this, I'm afraid it's going to be a huge disappointment. People need simply sign up as many friends as they can to vote for them... I will still submit my song, but this is fairly disheartening.
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While the theme is not able to changed at this point, the rules do specify that the judging criteria can be modified in the interest of fairness. I agree that there could be improvements made to the system, but the only way I could see to overcome the possibility of a popularity contest is to require a judges' panel. Having a judges' panel is counter to everything the site is about, and people shouldn't have a small group of judges decide whether their music is great or not.
If you have a suggestion for how to improve the voting process, please do post it. Someone suggested anonymizing entries like Dwelling of Duels does, but anonymous entries don't prevent competitors from telling others which entries are theirs. One way of reducing the possibility of cheating is changing the disqualification thresholds - instead of the bottom 25% with the lowest number of votes being eliminated, both the top 12.5% and the bottom 12.5% with the highest number of votes would be eliminated. Another is to disqualify voters who don't vote for at least a certain number of entries, and to require the voters to rate at least three entries the highest score.