User blog comment:Vlad Nykytiuk/Propositions for Mappervision Song Contest/@comment-5666680-20161029154911

1) I can't see the purpose of that rule. Since Mappervision is based on the concept that anyone can send whichever song they like, why should they be limited to choose a song that is at least 2 minutes long?

2) It is unrealistic, but it's a contest on the internet afterall, so it doesn't need to be realistic. Besides, it's a song contest, not an artist contest, so (most) people give their votes based on how much they like a song, rather than how much they like an artist. Also such rule would kinda interfere with the concept of freedom of song choice.

3) That wouldn't really work. Ideally, everybody who entered the contest should vote. But that isn't very realistic, since there will be always somebody who forgets or doesn't care. But to make the contest as fair as possible, most of the countries must cast their votes. When you vote, you give points to 10 other countries, but you give 0 points to yourself. In other words, all the other countries combined get 58 points while you get 0. So not-voting gives you sort of an advantage, since the other countries don't get those 58 points from you, meaning you are likely to get a higher result at the end. Considering that, everyone who takes this contest seriously (with intention to get a high result instead of having fun) wouldn't cast their votes. Therefore, to "force" people to do their voting,  there needs to be some sort of punishment.

As a punishment you proposed a country being kicked out of the current contest if it doesn't vote. I assume you mean that result of a such country wouldn't be taken into account and its result wouldn't show up on a leaderboard. However, you must realise that there would be some countries that voted for a country which got disqualified. So in order to keep the contest fair, so every country can give the same amount of points, we would have to get such countries to vote again. That would be very impracticable, though, as most of the countries would have to cast their votes again. Overall, it's not such a bad idea, so I propose a solution for that problem. When a country voted, not only it would have to distribute their 1-8, 10 and 12 points, but also name three backups (11th, 12th and 13th song they liked the most). These three backups generally wouldn't get any points, however if one of the nations you have voted for got disqualified, first backup would take it's place. With that I mean that all of the votes up to the disqualified nation would shift one vote up, while first backup would get one point. Not only that it would fix the problem mentioned above, but it would also make the final results less-predictable and the contest more exciting.

As for the 20 days voting deadline, it's already a thing more or less. It might shift for a day or two, but you always get 2-3 weeks to cast your votes, anyways.

4) I like that idea. Such statistic would more fairly show how well you actually did in a contest. Just make sure you divide the number of points got with the number of nations which voted in that contest, rather than dividing it with the number of all nations which participated in that contest.

5) Frankly, I like the current logo of Mappervision a little bit better than the proposed one, though I like yours too.