I will describe how we will merge with the Eschaton omega hypercomputer via prosthetic extension into the global webmind. Would have preferred a collective voting by the participants or a panel of judges. Upvotes don't measure quality, they measure popularity.
If you plan on making a post for the contest, be sure to link it in your entry comment.
As for your judging suggestions, which of these suggestions would you say is better and exactly how would you go about arranging it? As much as we recognize that popularity is not always a measure of quality, it does serve as an objective measure that usually does reflect quality once a niche demographic is determined as the voting pool. But we are always open to suggestions on how we can improve our methods. It's just a bit unclear at the moment how the suggested alternatives avoid the same problem.
My reply above does not qualify as entry comment? It does mention the technology I see vital for bringing about the tech-singularity: Prosthetic extension such as e.g. Musk's neuralink.
As to the judging system: Next time perhaps let all participants to the contest judge eachother and indicate a 1,2 and 3rd position. Voting for yourself being forbidden. Just a suggestion.
The entry post needs a link to your reply post. You're supposed to make a whole article. Check for an update of the deadline.
I withdraw. I am overburdened with work this week.
What is the expiry date for this contest? When are final submissions due?
Have a look at this "selfportrait-contest" (use this as tag)
and my contribution and compare it with the other contributions that got more votes and higher rewards. Now you'll see what I mean that if the upvote or the reward determines the winner, the outcome has nothing to do with the quality of the product. Basically it becomes a skewed lottery in favour of those who have a mutual upvoting clan.
We're going off the number of votes on the comment for the entry. Typically bots don't follow comments to vote, and as we are seeing now, the upvotes on the entry comments have only been by people who have read and are participating in the challenge :)