LogFAQs > #946093126

Other suggestions:

We need more variance on start times. I realize it may make some people upset or someone might say "this contest takes too much of my time already", but really, did no one else find it really annoying every round with a short last hour was decided by the same 3-4 people? Test the theory of them not using voting scripts by widening the start times. Early morning, late night, etc. Make it so people can't, in theory, sit on the board refreshing and get in within 7 seconds, prior to the Discord ping, every time. Yes, anyone on Discord will still have the advantage but that sort of advantage predates Discord anyway. For years I've had people sending me text messages for round start times. All that is fine and you can't police it, but it was never something that allowed the literal same people to always be first. Even the Discord ping wouldn't do that as it goes out to a lot of people, and not all of them are going to respond in the same order every time. This year was, in my opinion, as bad as the late raytan contests when amy knew all the start times and used her alts to vote early as well. It really isn't fun to watch 4 people decide the fate of every round that's close. I'm sure they loved it but for me, it got very tiresome to watch people beat the Discord ping and post within 10 seconds for rounds on end. The only way to test the theory they aren't just using a script to vote is to expand the round times like in the days of raytan/FFD. We need rounds after midnight and rounds before noon.
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