Wooooh!
I placed third!
Thank you so much@calumam, you're such a treasure to this community!
About the merit system thing, following the system you made this past week I'd say you did a good job judging. There's no way it was easy in the least, well done on the great job.
Since you're thinking about improving the merit system and stuff and thinking about the role engagement should play, I'd suggest that:
What we really want is for the best posts from the community contestants to be shown on the top 3 winners every week, but if engagement plays so much role in the posts in the top 3 we'd end up relegating some really great posts and put posts with lesser quality above them.
At the same time engagement is really important to our community and this wotw is a really great way to encourage engagement, so engagement can't be thrown away. How about having a different ranking for engagement? Like the main winners are announced solely based on the merits of what they did with the word of the week in their posts and then make a different section of winners gotten from all the contestants but this time based solely on engagements?
That or if you don't want to have to double your work by having to rank engagers then you can take engagement out of the contest but add that there would be extra rewards going for those who engage well enough in no particular order.
You are more than welcome bud, thanks for the laughs, lol.
I like the idea of two separate ranking systems. I want to be able to focus more on high-quality content with engagement being the kicker (we already have a great engagement project by @amr008).
I've got something interesting planned for next week, we'll see how that plays out before I introduce a split system.
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.