52 Responses to “Vote for my Wika 2007 entry”

1. dYu on August 20th, 2007 6:21 pm

   siguro nga madaling makuha sa pandaraya pero kung alam mong mali yun eh gagawin mo din ba? kung sa ganoong paraan ba makukuha ang pagkapanalo ay sa tingin mo magiging proud ang mananalo? sa tingin mo ba pwede nyang ipagyabang sa bandang huli na nanalo sya kung magkaganon nga? sa tingin mo ba sino ang niloloko ng gagawa non? tayo ba? hindi yata. hindi tayo kundi ang sarili nya good luck sa yo at sa lahat ipanatag mo ang loob mo hehehe

2. observer on August 20th, 2007 6:58 pm

   It appears you have a lot of complaints.
   You were complaining that there were a lot of requirements. And now this?
   If I don’t believe or agree with the system, I will not join or make myself involve into it.
   If I were you, I will withraw my entry. I’m sure that will make you feel better.

3. inkblots on August 20th, 2007 9:21 pm

   Although I am not comfy with that system, kasi bago lang naman ako dito sa site na ito, and I could only count with my one hand my following (if there were any). After having read the rules, I still joined. Why? I wouldn’t care even if I lose. It is the spirit of sharing your thoughts that count, and not the title or the prize.

   But I would also wonder how the admin could prevent this from happening. It is possible that a fraud like this could be committed.

   Would the administrators look into this please? I always adhere to fair play.

   Cheers and Good Luck sa mga participants!

4. Filipinayzd on August 20th, 2007 9:24 pm

   @dYu: Hindi ko naman sinabi na gagawin ko yun o ginagawa yun ng iba. Hehehe.

   @observer aka you: I observe that we are different.

5. Filipinayzd on August 20th, 2007 9:27 pm

   @Inkblots: At first I thought only those members of this blogosphere can vote.

6. empress maruja on August 20th, 2007 9:40 pm

   I’m actually bothered with the 50% public vote as it is prone to abuse, but I took the chance and joined anyway.

7. inkblots on August 20th, 2007 9:52 pm

   Does that mean PBS non-members can vote?

8. dYu on August 20th, 2007 10:03 pm

   we’d definitely look into this matter and we’ll see what we can do about it

   for now, let’s just hope that nobody bedolize or garcifize our poll

   salamat sa lahat ng suporta nyo

9. dYu on August 20th, 2007 10:04 pm

   Yes non-pbs members can vote. all internet users can vote.

10. dYu on August 20th, 2007 10:07 pm

    correction pala…

    all internet users who are registered at pintig.pinoyblogosphere.net can vote

11. inkblots on August 20th, 2007 10:10 pm

    @dyu–even if they are not bloggers?

12. dYu on August 20th, 2007 10:25 pm

    Yes. we haven’t set any restriction on the voters. as long as they are registered, they can vote for their favorite entry. maybe next year we could limit the voters to bloggers only. just maybe. if you guys have other suggestions for our next year’s mechanics, feel free to send it to our organizers wika2007[at]pinoyblogosphere.com

    maraming salamat po!

13. dYu on August 20th, 2007 11:32 pm

    ok eto ang pwede naming gawin para medyo mapanatag naman ng konti ang loob nyo cool lang kayo hehehe

    naka-record ang “Registration IP Address” ng lahat ng mga users sa Pintig.PinoyBlogoSphere.Net kaya isa ito sa mga info na pwede nating magamit para ma-check kung sa parehong IP address nag-register ang users. pero hindi namin masasabing 100% nitong mapipigilan ang anumang fraud kung meron man. siguro mamiminimize ng konti

    gagawin namin ang pag-check ng mga IP pagkatapos ng poll sa august 25. ifafinalize ang results ng poll kasama ng results ng judging ng panel of judges mula august 26 hanggang august 28.

    medyo madadagdagan nga siguro ng konti ang mga gagawin tulad ng pag-check ng IP pero para lang mabawasan ng konti ang mga duda at mapanatag ng konti kahit papano ang loob ng mga participants ay sisikapin naming gawin ito oks po?

    kung may mga suggestions pa kayo para dito ay maluwag po naming tatanggapin. maraming salamat!

14. Filipinayzd on August 21st, 2007 12:54 am

    Pasensya na kung makulit. Para naman sa ikauunlad ito. Kudos for the immediate response.

15. dYu on August 21st, 2007 1:18 am

    oks lang p’re. maraming salamat

16. inkblots on August 21st, 2007 1:27 am

    btw, how will you determine the 50% vote if you do not have a base number or a demoninator? If I get 1,000 internet votes, for example, how will you compute my 50% internet votes? Or do you aggregate all the internet votes and get the percentage for each participant depending on their individual cast votes.

17. bakla on August 21st, 2007 1:53 am

    IMHO, I think those who submitted entries should never vote for their own entries. ako lang yun ha, kase it kinds of defeat the purpose of getting other people to recognize you, your entry and your opinion. If this will end up as a popularity contest where contestants go out of their way to vote for themselves so they’d get that 50%, then I might as well withdraw my post as an official entry. Yun lang naman. Pero huwag na lang, sayang effort. If people wanna vote for my entry, then I’d be happy. If they don’t, keri lang. hehehe

18. dYu on August 21st, 2007 2:03 am

    yes that’s right.

    we will get the total number of users who voted for all the wika2007 entries. yes just those who voted for the wika2007 entries and that would be our denominator.

    our numerator will be the number of votes (or users who voted) for a particular entry… minus the DUPLICATE IP addresses (if any).

    so if there are 1000 registered voters (without duplicate IPs of course) and let’s say participant Juan dela Cruz (JDC) gets 750 votes, JDC’s rating will be 750/1000 * 100 = 75%

    and so 75% will be JDC’s rating for the Poll.

    next we would combine the poll results with the result from the panel of judges and get the average.

    if JDC gets 60% rating from the judges then we’ll compute JDC’s total rating as follows:

    (PollRating + Judges’Rating) / 2 = FinalRating
    (75% + 60%) / 2 = 67.5%

    or

    (50% of PollRating) + (50% of Judges’Rating) = FinalRating
    75%/2 + 60%/2 = 67.5%

    does that make sense? don’t worry, we will publish all the computations. just wait for the final report ok?

19. dYu on August 21st, 2007 2:13 am

    @AJ sa tingin ko ok lang na iboto ng participant ang sariling entry nya. basta minsan lang hehe.

    at sisikapin nating masigurado na minsan nga lang makaboto sa pamamagitan ng pag-check sa “Registration IP Address” ng user/voter.

    tulad sa totoong election, pwede namang iboto ng kandidato ang sarili nya di ba? kse karapatan nya rin yun

    nakow napunta na tayo sa pulitika. tsk tsk. at inuulit ko yung sinabi ko kanina, sana lang huwag tayo ma-bedolize at ma-garcilize nga ba o ma-garcified? *lol*

    good luck na lang sa lahat at sana nga maging katanggap-tanggap sa karamihan (baka hindi sa lahat) ang magiging resulta ng Wika2007

20. timlight on August 21st, 2007 2:57 am

    “Ang daling makuha ang 50% sa Wika 2007. Kailangan lang gumawa ng maraming accounts sa Pintig Blogosphere at iboto ang sariling entry.” (by filipinayzd) So, kahit ilang beses pwede iboto ang sariling entry ng author?

21. timlight on August 21st, 2007 3:00 am

    “…gumawa ng maraming accounts sa Pintig Blogosphere at iboto ang sariling entry.” Is this for real?

22. ynon on August 21st, 2007 5:45 am

    “our numerator will be the number of votes (or users who voted) for a particular entry… minus the DUPLICATE IP addresses (if any).”

    i guess there would be a big problem if we will discount or disregard DUPLICATE IP ADDRESS in counting the votes just like that. we all know how connections are in corporations, agencies, companies, organizations and the like are. they may be connected in an intranet infrastructure. as i understand it (i have little knowledge with networking hehehe), that means they may share the same IP ADDRESS. however, an IP ADDRESS doesn’t always mean a single user account. further, not all organizations have a one on one user-computer ratio. even a wifi connection has a single IP address but has different users.

    i hope the organizers would be VERY TRANSPARENT on the way the votes are counted. they should at the end of the voting period show the total votes the entry has and also show the “stray” (SAME IP ADDRESS) votes.

    why can’t we just have a competition without this voting thing?

    “pero hindi namin masasabing 100% nitong mapipigilan ang anumang fraud kung meron man. siguro mamiminimize ng konti” referring to dulicate IP address

    let’s have the panel of judges do the selection of the winners. i believe this panel is more credible than online voting (popularity effort).

    thank you.

23. sardonyx on August 21st, 2007 6:50 am

    I agree with Ynon dapat nga wala ng voting from any bloggers, mas maganda yun panel of judges na lang kasi the more relatives and friends you have the more na possibilities na manalo ka kahit walang “K” ang entry mo. Baka nga hindi na basahin ng iba yun entry as long as makapag vote sila sa kakilala nila para lang manalo.

24. ynon on August 21st, 2007 7:04 am

    sa mga organizers, pwede ba nating kunin ang sentimyento ng lahat ng entry participants kung payag sila na tanggalin ang online voting?

25. half on August 21st, 2007 7:26 am

    hmmm I agree re: possibility of same IPs. Kasi dito sa office namin..minsan may mga friends ako na nagcco-comment sa mga blog ko and when I checked sa wordpress — we have same IPs.

    hmmm, paano kaya to ngayon?

26. Liz on August 21st, 2007 7:32 am

    [a participant]

    What about alisin na lang ang online voting? Kasi magiging issue na naman eto as popularity…ang dami pa namang controversial issues sa blogosphere natin ngayon., dadagdag pa to hehehe.

    Let’s leave it to the judges. I believe kukuha naman kayong mga astig na writers / literature experts or whatever as judges.

27. Karlo.PinoyBlogero on August 21st, 2007 8:28 am

    Eto rin ang naging problema ko noong Kalayaan2007. My blog was a little new at that time, wala pang masyadong visitors. Nahirapan akong makipaglaban doon sa mga well established blogs.

    Kumbaga, if you have more traffic, mas mataas ang chances na maraming boboto sayo. E paano yung mga pipol na walang masyadong visitors pero maganda talaga ang gawa?

    Personally, 50% is too big of a percent for an article to get high points. Kaso wala na tayong magagawa. Decided na. All we can do now is to do what others are doing “maghakot ng mga boboto”.

28. ynon on August 21st, 2007 8:28 am

    suggestion:

    if we could not get away with the online voting lessen its weight. it doesn’t have to be 50%. why not build a more rigid criteria such as relevance, creativity, construction … voting can can have the popularity criterion and only share 10 or 20 percent of the score. it’s just a suggestion.

29. dYu on August 21st, 2007 8:38 am

    thanks for letting us know your sentiments about this matter at this early stage of our judging period. we (the wika2007 organizers) will be discussing about it and will keep you guys posted ASAP.

30. dYu on August 21st, 2007 9:18 am

    To help the organizers decide on what to do with the wika2007 poll, we’d like to ask all the participants’ take on this:

    What do you (participants) want to do with the wika2007 poll?

    A. Completely remove the Poll from the official judging criteria and just make it as a Special award (Readers’ choice or Internet Users’ choice)

    B. Make the poll 40% instead of 50% of the total contest rating

    C. Make the poll 30% instead of 50% of the total contest rating

    D. Make the poll 20% instead of 50% of the total contest rating

    E. Make the poll 10% instead of 50% of the total contest rating

    F. Abstain. Don’t care. Bahala na si batman

    G. Let it be. Wala nang dapat baguhin pa. Too late to change the mechanics. Oks na yan Next year na lang magbago ng mechanics.

    Please send your reply to wika2007[at]pinoyblogosphere.com and kindly send it using the email address that you used when you registered in the comment section of the wika2007 page. Only replies sent using the registered emails will be accepted.

    Thanks so much!

    Note: We’ve also sent this to the Wika2007 Participants Mailing List. Please do reply ASAP.

31. Darang Sisa on August 21st, 2007 9:19 am

    personally, i know i am way beyond winning in this competition because i am new to the blogging scene., but i joined still because i would like to support advocacies that aim to preserve Filipino cultures and traditions. it’s more fulfilling than winning P5,000 and a webhosting package. kumbaga, bonus nalang yung prize. this is the cyberage, a new era where pakikibaka sa kalsada has taken a wider audience and a gigantic leap in the form of technology. i’d like to be a part of that era, wider audience and more freedom in the comfort of my own bedroom. I think in a bigger perspective, Wika2007 is not just a mere writing competition, it is preservation of the very roots our blood and flesh are made up of, let’s stick to that and continue to spearhead projects of this nature.Kudos!

32. dYu on August 21st, 2007 9:33 am

    ok so maybe we won’t pursue to disregard the registered voters with duplicate IPs anymore

    any other suggestions guys?

    just continue posting your comments, suggestions, reactions, questions or anything about the wika2007.

    we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

    for now, I just have to go to work first. whew day job. istorbo sa hobby. hahaha ok? see you guys again tonight.

    -signing off-

33. Lionheart on August 21st, 2007 12:09 pm

    Thanks… at least clear na…

34. andianka on August 21st, 2007 2:06 pm

    hahaha! absent lang ako ng isang araw may pinagkakaguluhan na pala kyo. anyway, for the participants, please do relax. nyahahhaha! we all want a fair competition here.

    look on the bright side, kaya nga nagkaroon na tyo ng 50% judges (unlike the Kalayaan2007) dahil may improvement diba? ayaw namin maging popularity contest lang ito. i guess, ngayon din lang natin narealize 50% for poll can be a bit too much parin pala.

    so, the action lies on the question na pinadala ni dyu na sasagutin ng participants. hopefully magreply agad lahat para naman mapagdecisionan natin ‘to ng maaga.

    at sana, manaig parin ang patas at malinis na pagpili ng bobotohan.

35. Filipinayzd on August 21st, 2007 2:21 pm

    Continue the poll (50%) and let the judges decide (50%).

    Judges will read a particular entry, check the entry’s poll rating, and finally rate it.

    Ex A. Judge Mariposa: Entry #77 got 33% (highest) in the poll*. She thinks it’s an AVERAGE entry, gives 89% [or if she thinks it's excellent (96-100%), above average (91-95%), average (81-90%), below average (76-80%), or poor (75-70%)].

    *Ang rating sa poll ay percentage ng lahat ng votes (total no. of cast votes is the denominator). Note that the lowest possible rating that an entry will get from the judges is 70%.

    However, if the rating in the poll is based on the average (total no. of cast votes divided by the total no. of entries is the denominator), judges’ rating should be like this:

    Ex B. Judge Mariposa: Entry #77 got 80% (highest) in the poll. She thinks it’s an AVERAGE entry, gives 89% [or if she thinks it's excellent (91-100%), above average (81-90%), average (71-80%), below average (61-70%), or poor (50-60%)].

    Ex A: Entry #77 (30%) + [(89%)50%] = 74.5%
    Ex B: Entry #77 [(80%)50% + [(89)50%] = 84.5%

    Kung walang ceiling and floor ang rating ng judges, pwedeng ang 80% na rating ng isang judge mataas na pero sa iba mababa. Kung “mataas” ang stardard ng isang judge, hindi sya magbibigay ng 100% or even 90%. Meron namang magbibigay ng 100% or 90% sa higit sa isang entry.

    Waah!

36. bratyfly on August 21st, 2007 4:20 pm

    Does that mean PBS non-members can vote? - inkblots

    Answer: YES! because not all blog readers are bloggers, and not all pbs blog readers are pbs members.

37. bratyfly on August 21st, 2007 4:35 pm

    “…gumawa ng maraming accounts sa Pintig Blogosphere at iboto ang sariling entry.” Is this for real?
    - timlight

    ANSWER: This is definitely NOT allowed. Any participant proven doing this will be disqualified.

38. bratyfly on August 21st, 2007 4:54 pm

    @Inkblots: At first I thought only those members of this blogosphere can vote. - FILIPINAYZD

    ANSWER: anyone can vote. i believe that blogosphere is a ccommunity of bloggers and blog readers. if we will not allow the non-bloggers to vote, then pinoyblurker should not be allowed to vote.

39. Filipinayzd on August 21st, 2007 5:07 pm

    Registered user is not equal to unique individual.

40. trizzz on August 21st, 2007 5:31 pm

    paano naman po kung hindi talaga ikaw yung nagvote sa sarili mo at hindi gumawa ng maraming account sa pintig, but voted for an entry and uses the same ip address as the participant’s? Pano yan I asked some people here to vote for my entry?

    palagay ko dapat tanggalin na lang yung polls, kasi masyadong gumagawa ng issue. And main concern lang naman ng contest is the contents of the entries itself. Siguro naman yung judges are wise enough to decide whose entries are deserving to win, regardless of the votes.

41. Filipinayzd on August 21st, 2007 5:59 pm

    Pano kung ala Top 10 Emering Influential Blogs in 2007 ang voting. Mga blogger (na may atleast 10 posts in his/-er blog) ang makakapagvote by posting his/-er choices in his/-er blog(s?). Required ang paglagay ng link ng Pintig, Wika2007, sponsors etc.

    Dun sa part ng judges: Kung para kay Judge Mariposa ang Entry #77 ay AVERAGE (X + Y = 85%), at ang rating ng Entry #77 sa poll ay very popular (say, 40% = X), 45% (Y) ang ibibigay nya dito.

    Kung para kay Judge Mariposa ang Entry #78 ay EXCELLENT (95%) at ang rating ng entring ito sa poll ay unpopular (say, 15%), ang ibibigay nya dito ay ang maximum grade na 50% kaya ang final rating ng Entry #78 ay 65%. That is the best thing that Juge Mariposa can do since 50% lang mang ang sa judges.

    Kung para kay Judge Mariposa ang Entry #79 ay POOR (70%) at average sa poll (say, 30%), ang ibibigay nya ay 40% (or lower) para maging 70% (lower than Entry #78) ang final rating.

    Entry #77 - 40% + 45% = 85
    Entry #78 - 15% + 50% = 65
    Entry #79 - 30% + 40-0% = 70-30%

    Waah!

42. bratyfly on August 21st, 2007 6:48 pm

    I would like to remind everyone that the mechanics of this contest was dicussed over a conference of PBS members.
    I find it hard to understand why no one raised this issue before the voting starts.

    I tried to look for another poll system that will grab the voter’s hardware address. Sadly, I guess there is none. Since the NIC MAC is not transmitted to a router and dial up modem do not have MAC address. Also IP addresses are dynamically assigned and therefore change daily per internet user and we are expecting that a big fraction of voters will come from a network-based voters who will share the same IP address so we cannot discard votes based on duplicate IPs.

    I also wanted to point out that we are using PINTIGG not for us to gain more click, but we wanted to use a system where people will be required to login with a user id and password and needs a unique email address to avoid them from voting more than once. We need your voices to resolve this issue. Not a comment or a blog entry somewhere attacking the event.

    For all those who provided their comments because they sincerely care, Dios Mabalos po.

43. timlight on August 21st, 2007 8:41 pm

    Filipinayzd: “Registered user is not equal to unique individual.”
    – I agree, voters/registered users on Pintig PBS may have the same IP address but may have been different individuals.

    Bratyfly: “I also wanted to point out that we are using PINTIGG not for us to gain more click, but we wanted to use a system where people will be required to login with a user id and password and needs a unique email address to avoid them from voting more than once. We need your voices to resolve this issue. Not a comment or a blog entry somewhere attacking the event.”
    – It may not be the intention of the Wika2007 organizers to “gain more click” on Pintig PBS but in reality “Voting encourages us to click the site Pintig.pinoyblogosphere.net more” as I mentioned on my “Observations on WIka2007 Judging Issues” post. You said that you need our “voices to resolve this issue” and pointed out that you somehow don’t need “a comment or a blog entry somewhere attacking the event”. But these comments and blog entries represent our voices as participants and members of PBS.

44. bratyfly on August 21st, 2007 9:34 pm

    I was just wondering why just now?
    I agree with one of the participants. “It’s not proper to change the rules in the middle of the game”

    “It may not be the intention of the Wika2007 organizers to “gain more click” on Pintig PBS but in reality “Voting encourages us to click the site Pintig.pinoyblogosphere.net more” - so what’s wrong? Yes we need your voice.I don’t think bringing up this topic could help us resolve the issue.

45. timlight on August 21st, 2007 10:33 pm

    There’s nothing wrong in clicking the Pintig PBS’s voting site for Wika2007 entries. I’m only stating a fact that “Voting encourages us to click the site Pintig.pinoyblogosphere.net more”. Any topic that was brought up to the organizers’ attention would not be able to resolve the “judging” and “voting” issues on Wika2007 because there’s nothing to be resolved. The contest entries are already being judged. People here are only sharing their views on it.

    If there’ll be any change on the registration, the voting, and the judging process, it’s up to the organizers. We, the participants, will just have to wait for the instruction.

    In my case, I was invited to join this contest. It’s a very heartening invitation because it stirred up the Filipino in me to speak up about our own language. Nasasabik rin ako na maipahiwatig ang bugso ng aking damdamin tungkol sa ating wika kahit sa maliit na paraan lamang ng pagkwento at pagsulat nito. Kapayapaan para sa ating lahat.

46. trizzz on August 21st, 2007 10:53 pm

    As for the changes, it’s not really proper to change the system since participants had agreed upon the initial rules, and joining the contest itself means they abide with everything the organizers had stated. Rules and procedures are not clearly stated beforehand, so that makes it more difficult. But everything depends on the organizers, and the participants don’t have any choice if certain changes are made.

    In the issue about attacking the event in blogs and comments, I think the participants/bloggers have every right to voice out their insights about the issue. Certainly, because they are involved in it. But this isn’t an excuse for participants/bloggers to go against the organizers, because in the first place we are just participants here. It would be much better if they themselves speak out their complaints directly to the organizers, so that they will be aware of the growing issue. In that case, things would be much easier to fix,considering both organizers’ and participants’ sides.

    Pintigg may acquire clicks, but I believe this isn’t really the intention of the organizers. I guess Pintigg’s purpose is to let voters vote for their favored entries conveniently. But sad to say, the present issue about the polls makes difficult to convince the participants.

47. bratyfly on August 22nd, 2007 12:21 am

    Using Pintigg should not be an issue here. If we are not going to use pintigg, i don’t know where else can we conduct online polls. Unless meron mag offer na blogger na i-host ang online polls next time. Anyone?

    Ayaw namin gamitin ang PBS Group blog since dadami ang numbers ng members just because of the contest which is not good, right? At pag nagkaganon and if I were to ask kung ilan ang members ng PBS, hindi ko na alam ang isasagot ko.

48. Lester Cavestany on August 22nd, 2007 12:42 am

    Kanya-kanyang Layunin at Tungkulin

    Kasalukuyan po tayong nahaharap sa isang problema. Para sa ‘kin, kailangan nating suriin kung saan hahantong ang mga pwedeng pagpilian. Pero bago natin magagawa ‘to, kailangang pag-usapan muna natin ang mga sumusunod:

    Ang Layunin ng Patimpalak

    Ayon sa http://www.pinoyblogosphere.com/wika2007/...
    “The Wika2007 Blog Writing Contest is a group writing effort aiming to trumpet the beauty and strength of the Filipino Language in line with this year’s Buwan ng Wika theme: “Maraming Wika, Matatag na Bansa” (Free translation: “A gift of tongues for a strong nation”). With the significance of the Internet in shaping the culture today, blogging about the Language will not only enforce the online Filipinos’ love for their native tongue, but also promote it to bloggers around the world.”

    Sa madaling salita, sa pamamagitan ng pag-submit ng blog na may temang Maraming Wika, Matatag na Bansa, makapag-bibigay ng kanya-kanyang opinyon at punto ang mga bloggers tungkol sa Filipino at iba pang mga wika sa Pilipinas.

    Kung sino man ang nakaisip ng pakontes na ‘to na may ganitong layunin ay dapat nating pasalamatan at bigyan ng credit. Alam naman nating ang mundo ng blog ay buhay na buhay at punong-puno ng mga sariwang opinyon at alternatibong ideya. Mga opinyon at ideyang hindi mo mababasa sa mga dyaryo o kung ano pang media na may mga pinangangalagaang interes paminsan.

    Kaya nga kung titingnan mo ang mga rules ng pakontes, blangko ito dahil ganyan talaga ang blog. Walang limitasyon. Walang depinisyon. Ang tanging tuntunin lamang ay sundin ang standard netiquette at walang kabastusan.

    Ang Tungkulin ng Isang Blogger

    Kahit na sinasabing walang limitasyon ang pagsulat ng blog, may mga tungkulin pa ring dapat gampanan ang isang blogger. Lalo na kung iisipin natin na kadalasang bukas sa mata ng publiko ang mga sinusulat sa blog.
    Masasabing sa pagsali ng isang blog-writing contest, may mga automatic na tungkulin na kailangang sundin ang isang participant. Simple lang naman ang mga ito. Tulad ng:
    1) Pag-bigay ng mga makatotohanang impormasyon
    2) Pag-sunod sa tema ng contest - Alam naman nating walang limitasyon ang mga pwedeng isulat sa isang blog entry, pero dahil nga may tema, dapat nasaayos ang mga ideya natin.

    Ang Layunin ng Pagkakaroon ng Poll-Judging

    Usong-uso ngayon ang poll-judging lalo na sa mga napapanood nating mga reality at talent show. Tulad nga ng parating sinasabi ni Ryan Seacrest, “Vote as many times as you can.” Talaga namang nakakadala ang ganitong uso. Kaya nga hindi nakakapagtakang pati ang blog-writing contest na Wika2007 ay may 50% na poll-judging component din.

    Kadalasan nga lang sa mga poll-judging, pre-screened na ng mga judges ang mga participants o finalists bago bigyan ng pagkakataon ang publiko na humatol. Kumbaga sa American Idol, dumadaan muna sa mga galamay nina Randy, Paula, at Simon ang mga gustong sumali at sila ang pumipili ng mga finalists. Pati ang mga ibang reality show na kung saan ang mga manonood ang mga bumoboto kung sino ang mananalo, nasala na nang husto ng mga judges ang mga pagbobotohan ng mga tao. Ang layunin nito ay gusto rin ng mga organizer na bigyan ng kredibilidad ang kanilang patimpalak. Siyempre, bago ilabas sa publiko ang mga posibleng panalo, lahat sila mukhang karapat-dapat nang manalo. Kundi, magiging katatawanan ang patimpalak at baka mauwi lang ito sa paramihan ng kakilala’t kaibigan. Gusto lang naman sana nating maiwasan na ang manalong entry ay nanalo lamang dahil maraming boto, kahit na walang saysay at nilalaman ang blog. Dahil dito, nangangamba ako sa kalalabasan ng resulta ng judging kung may malaking timbang ang poll. Sayang naman ang pagod ng mga nag-sulat ng mga makabuluhang entry pero hindi nanalo dahil wala sila masyadong mga kaibigang nahikayat na mag-log-on sa pinoyblogosphere.net at bumoto. Baka ang mangyari niyan, masira pa ang pangalan ng pinoyblogosphere.net sa mga susunod pang pa-contest. Sayang naman.

    Ano ba ang Mga Tungkulin ng mga Organizer ng Contest?

    Kung ang mga kalahok ay may mga tungkuling ginampanan sa pagsali sa patimpalak, may mga tungkulin din ang mga organizer. Kung ako po ang tatanungin, malinaw sa ‘kin na kailangang masiguro ng mga organizers na maging fair ang pagpili ng mga panalong entry. At dapat sana’y masunod ang nararapat na criteria ayon sa nakasaad sa website - creativity, originality, writing style, composition and organization, substance & relevance to the theme. Huwag naman sana maging batayan ang popularity ng may-akda; lalo na kung pwede palang doktorin ito.

    Pagtatapos

    Malinaw na may kanya-kanyang layunin ang bawat kalahok sa pagsali sa patimpalak na ‘to. Ang iba’y sumali para sa mga papremyo. Mayroong mga sumali para makilala. May mga ibang mahilig lang talaga mag-sulat. Kahit na iba-iba ang ating layunin, alam kong magkakasundo tayo sa iisang bagay – na dapat manalo ang karapat-dapat manalo. May the best man win, ika nga. Kaya naman hinihiling ko sa mga organizer na sana’y pag-aralan nilang mabuti ang kasalukuyang problema. At ako’y nagtitiwala na kung ano man ang inyong maging desisyon, iyon ang nakita niyong makakabuti para sa mga kalahok at para sa patimpalak.

    Salamat po.

    Lester G Cavestany
    August 21, 2007
    http://www.lestercavestany.com

49. empress maruja on August 22nd, 2007 4:32 am

    @ dyu - I agree that we don’t need to change the rules about the poll voting, but I was just wondering how the votes be scored?

    Would the 50% be shared by all of the candidates (with the poll winner getting the majority)? Or would it be based on a gauge system, like say, entries getting 200+ votes get 50%, 100+ votes get 25%, etc?

50. Ayel on August 22nd, 2007 12:32 pm

    Dun sa sinabi ni Filipinayzd na parang the judge will save those excellent but unpopular entries by giving it a maximum rating, I think the panel shouldn’t know standing of the entries in term of votes to avoid halo effect.

    ***

    Since the competition is nearing its end, I think changes in the rules would create much more conflicts.

    However, if the predicament here is on the voting, can we know the fraudulent votes aside from their IP addresses? Can we not count only the votes of the members of those Pintig or PBS members who have joined the community before the voting period? That means, we will not allow votes from people who just joined the community to vote. If they really want to be members, their membership will only approved after the voting period.I dunno if that is sound.

    Sorry po. Ngayon ko lang po nalaman ang probs dito. Kahit noon may mga nakikinita rin akong problem but I didn’t mind because I joined not merely to win.

51. trizzz on August 22nd, 2007 12:33 pm

    I guess settled na yata yung problema. Hay salamat. Judges are now scanning on the entries, whoever wins, sure they deserve it. basahin niyo na lang po dito: http://www.pinoyblogosphere.com/2007/08/22/maraming-reklamo-matatag-na-patimpalak/#comment-16905
    goodluck sa ating lahat!

52. dYu on August 23rd, 2007 4:24 am

    here’s how we’ll compute the poll rating:

    http://www.pinoyblogosphere.com/2007/08/20/vote-for-my-wika-2007-entry#comment-16530

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