hellrazor wrote:Simple, if someone downloads your FILE on another site and likes it then comes here and votes, they only have experience with your single file.
best-mix #5 rules wrote:All forum members (except newly registered voters with no posts) can vote for as many files as they want to win BEST-mix.
While your point isn't necessarily wrong, the rules already safeguard against this. It's set so that essentially only people with some established history on this site, entering or not, can vote. As such, there shouldn't be any excuse for not having access to all the files. If someone from another board were hypothetically to come here, register, and want to vote, they wouldn't be able to due to post count.
hellrazor wrote:Or what if someone comments that your fade-out is bad so you fix the fadeout and re-submit on another site.
I don't exactly get what you mean by "another site" (unless you mean mediafire or something), but if this is released cross-board
during the voting period, it doesn't matter, since to my understanding submissions are locked after midnight tonight(?). In other words, I wouldn't really be able to change anything about my submission at that point.
hellrazor wrote:In order to keep the competition fair to ensure no file tweaking and nobody is downloading only a few files a mass release without sharing on other sites is necessary.
File tweaking: The only time this is allowed is before the deadline, by sending in extra revisions/files/whatever. I'm talking about releasing after the deadline has passed, when you can't even do that stuff anyway. Very likely, I would tweak my cross-board copies of my file based on feedback, but none of that can affect the submission already set in stone.
DLing a few files: these would only be accessible to people who cannot even vote in this competition due to the 0-post vote ban anyway. A lot of this seems to be hinging on hypothetical crazy stepmania fanatics that would be willing to rig online stepmania competitions. Even if upon release I flat out told people to vote for me and no one else, there is a rule already in place to block that.