Golden Question of July contest

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TibiaQA.com is proudly announcing the Golden Question of July contest. The goal of this contest is to promote and reward high quality, well-researched and interesting questions posted on TibiaQA.

Contest rules:

• The contest runs from 1. July 2020 00:01 CET, until 31. July 2020 23:59 CEST
• All questions by registered users, who confirmed their e-mail address will automatically take part in the contest
• Users participate by asking interesting, well-researched questions on TibiaQA
• All posted questions must follow TibiaQA guidelines - questions that fail to do so will either be closed or removed and will not participate in the contest
• TibiaQA.com team cannot participate in the contest

Picking the top questions procedure:

• Top 6 questions will be pre-selected by the TibiaQA.com team and forwarded to the CMs and fansite admins (1. August)
• The selection will be impacted by several factors:
  • How interesting is the question
  • How useful is the question to the community
  • How researched is the question
  • Number of views and votes
  • Correctness and grammar
• The CMs and fansite admins will vote for their favorite questions from the top 6 (until 8. August)
• The winning questions are announced based on the received votes from the CMs and fansite admins (until 9. August) and the winners are contacted to pick their reward and provide a character name for which they want to receive the prize for

Rewards:

1. Golden trophy of excellence + Badge of glory + Rune emblem of choice + 50 bonus reputation points on TibiaQA
2. Silver trophy of excellence + Elven trophy + Rune emblem of choice + 25 bonus reputation points on TibiaQA
3. Bronze trophy of excellence + Prismatic ring + Rune emblem of choice + 10 bonus reputation points on TibiaQA

Good luck!
The TibiaQA.com team

Answer 1

Question in regards to 'grammar and correctness'.  If someone other the OP edits your question, is the eligibility of the Question for the competition effected?

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I guess yes since we all dont have the same english level. I think he means that you try your best with the text structure and trying to be the best english you can do.

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I don't mind helping out and editing where I can. Good question to ask, my assumption is if someone edits your post then you're fine but let's wait and see what the Admin says.

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Ya, for me this is one I think Admin needs to answer, because I've already seen a top notch question asked that the OP put some time into and also had some spelling mistakes, and I don't want to touch it till I know I wont screw up their chances in the competition

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Question contest or grammar contest?

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Fair point Trululu. I just don't want to mess with someones chances

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I believe correcting grammar mistakes should be permitted, however, with the limited option- range. As an example, if someone is not using any interpunctions and almost 25% of the question is misspelled in original content - this should be disqualified. I saw several questions and answers not containing single dot or capital letter. Considering that we have so many tools available to translate like: google translator etc etc bad English should not be so much problem. In case the question is unclear comments are available to ask further. Once you have more clear vision- I am sure your help will be appreciated. Nevertheless, If someone’s text is not 75% and above original should be not taken under consideration- it only means that person did not care and put effort into quality of the content. Moderators are here to guide and help- and this is great- but they are not your Personal assistant to clean all your mistakes and do your work.

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Hello,

as long as your question only has edits related to some small typos and some minor corrections, there's absolutely no negative effect on the participation in the contest. If someone had to re-write most of your question because it was barely understandable or asked in a way that doesn't suit this site, then such edits will have a negative impact on the overall chances to be selected (but there's still a chance, given the question excel in all other categories).

Let me know if this helps.

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That does help Ellotris Guardian. Thank you.