Winter Lottery 2023 (with Omniscient Owl!)

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Hello TibiaQA users!

We are happy to announce the sixth edition of our Winter Lottery event! Every active user of TibiaQA participates!

Event rules

• The event runs from 1. December 2023 00:01 CET, until 29. December 2023 23:59 CET
• All TibiaQA registered users with confirmed e-mail addresses participate in the event
• All users who wrote at least 10 valid posts (questions or answers) on TibiaQA during the mentioned period will be automatically enrolled in the lottery (activity on meta.tibiaqa.com is not tracked and not considered)
• Content that goes against the Help Center guide and content that brings absolutely no value (eg. "nice question", "me too") can be removed without notice and will not be counted
• All users who qualified for the lottery will be announced on 31. December 2023 at the latest, together with the link to the lottery on tibiopedia.pl/tools/lottery
• The lottery will be scheduled to draw on 1. January 2024 20:00 CET
• Winners will be available on tibiopedia.pl/tools/lottery  in the provided link and will also be announced on TibiaQA.com
• You may own only one TibiaQA account. We reserve the right to disqualify all users who attempt to cheat.

Prizes

The top 5 places in the lottery will receive the following prizes:

1. Omniscient Owl
2. Rune emblem of choice + Santa Backpack
3. Rune emblem of choice
4. Rune emblem of choice
5. Rune emblem of choice

Good luck!
The TibiaQA.com team

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Amazing! We shall see a lot of fun questions and answers this December! I like that the second place get the beautiful Santa Backpack, haha!

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Taking into account the changes in the rules compared to previous years - comments don't count, 10 activities instead of 5, the rewards are very... mediocre. For the first time, I won't participate, but I wish everyone good luck.

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That's great news to learn about the lottery!
After a day of running, however, by looking at the recent activity, it seems like the rules provide incentive for quantity over quality.  Maybe only posts with a positive score should be counted towards this activity?
After a half a year of participating in this community, as was able to provide 10 well-researched (sometimes in terms of hours) answers. Meanwhile, we see people posting hearsay unverified claims as answers to questions asking for confirmed knowledge.

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@Alip Aldo, you have a valid point. On the other hand, all our other contests throughout the year are designed to attract quality content. For the winter season, we just wanted to do a fun event for our community, where everyone gets an equal chance to win - especially given that it's been our tradition since our first year of existence. We will continue to host our regular, quality-oriented contests next year too :)

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I've just asked some questions on TibiaQA. How do I know whether they are counted as valid?

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@Tarik by double-checking with our content guidelines
https://www.tibiaqa.com/asking-how-to-ask
https://www.tibiaqa.com/asking-what-to-avoid
https://www.tibiaqa.com/answering-how-to-answer

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@Ellotris Guardian
I see your point. Sadly, I won't qualify for a draw in the lottery with my current rate without sacrificing my ideals. Well I wish everyone a happy holidays season and a reasonable amount of moderation work to do :)!

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I will only truly participate in this contest if quality questions and answers are needed by myself. I had asked a question yesterday in regards to the skinning achievement because I have learned, in the last 48 hours, some skinable monsters do not assist in the skin-deep achievement and was trying to figure out which monsters specifically do. I was met with a troll answer and a non-answer that sent me to wiki.
My hope is that you all do check to make sure people are not submitting insufficient information to make it into a lottery.

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I noticed this, @Libi. I already downvoted the poor content and I we shall make sure that non-answers and troll replies will not be accepted.

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Good Luck to all! I will be downvoting and explaining why in the comments if I find a question/answer to be poor quality and I encourage others to do the same.

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Can I write a question and answer it by myself? I found some cool stories that haven't been discussed here and probably not many player would ever find about that any time soon.

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@Fanjita, yes - https://www.tibiaqa.com/answering-own-questions

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Should all questions/answers be in English only?

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@kevinsabag - yes

Answer 1

Lottery link - https://tibiopedia.pl/tools/lottery/12330

Users qualified for the lottery

Lottery #	User	Number of posts
1.	Arcai	49
2.	drk	24
3.	Fanjita	19
4.	Loqhakk	18
5.	Tarik	17
6.	Kaczy_P	15
7.	Deliziozo3312	15
8.	Zupakode	14
9.	Trululu Gumdrops	14
10.	Anubora	14
11.	Raven	14
12.	FPoPP	14
13.	oezetat	12
14.	Smucker	11
15.	Libi	11
16.	shawtay	11
17.	Idontknow	11
18.	Nareull	10
19.	Raven Branwen	10
20.	Gleemody	10
21.	Yalthus	10
22.	AnneFearless	13
23.	Pochwalona	11
24.	howcio	10

Good luck everyone!

Update 30 Dec, 22:50 CET - There was a problem with a script counting user posts, which caused some of the content posted on the last day of the event (29 December) to not be discovered. We re-run the check to make sure that users who posted on the last day are included too. Three users who properly qualified to the lottery were missed in the original list, but are now added - AnneFearless, Pochwalona and howcio. Due to this fact, the lottery on Tibiopedia was re-created, so that it contains the correct number of lottery tickets.

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Quite high chances to be in TOP5 ^^
Good luck everyone!

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UPDATE!  There was a problem with a script counting user posts, which caused some of the content posted on the last day of the event (29 December) to not be discovered. We re-run the check to make sure that users who posted on the last day are included too. Three users who properly qualified to the lottery were missed in the original list, but are now added - AnneFearless, Pochwalona and howcio. Due to this fact, the lottery on Tibiopedia was re-created, so that it contains the correct number of lottery tickets.

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oh thank you! I wanted to ask but i was to ashamed to do so :$ :D GL everyone!

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Mistakes happen, please feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns :)

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Gl everyone so fun to see a lot of people!