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  •   almost 12 years ago

no transperancy???

First of all, congratulations to all the winners...

But i am Writing this message with utter shame and serious transparency issues..

1. admin posts this 'Thanks for the questions. In regard to the vote count, we take voting fraud very seriously and actually use a number of manual and automated processes to vet votes for eligibility at the end of the public voting period. The vote counts are purposefully not public. Making them public would allow people to see who is in the lead, and would tell submitters how much "catch up" they need to do in order to become the crowd favorite - thus encouraging cheating." ( http://letsbuildkaec.challengepost.com/forum_topics/3205-clarifications-on-vote )

ok i totally understand all this.. but what now... whats the problem in telling away how many votes did every contestant get. None of us are jobless here to invest our time in working for app development and sharing the same around. I guess it will be fare if you could be transparent enough to tell the contestants how much vote each of them got. Its not question of curiosity its a right i believe. Failing on this i surely doubt there is some transperancy issues..

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Admin posted "Please submit your app and we will work with you directly around testing once we get into the judging phase. Thanks." ( http://letsbuildkaec.challengepost.com/forum_topics/3157-udid )

I wonder how were the apps even tested and selected. We were informed that we will be personally contacted to get the UDID of an iOS 7 but no one ever contacted us. #Admin.. what have you gotta say for this? So did u guys even have a testing on my app. M feeling cheated just like other competitions where they call for a challenge but end up stealing ideas.. With all due respect admin.. i thought challenge-post was different form other online competition forums.

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Another ques, please define on what basis is the winning app selected... i thought it mere went on creativity , innovation and oh ya.. commercialization.
Also appending KAEC or images of kaec had added advantages ??? :P :P
Please clarify the same as i understand there are few other apps which deserves to be in KAEC..

No hard feelings judges or winners or challenge-post team.. its my view as a techie based on innovations and technologies that has been used for developing apps and unique ideas which everyone of us carries.
Sorry if i have hurt-ed anyone's feelings by writing this but some one kindly give me some convincing answers.

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  • Manager   •   almost 12 years ago

    Agreed - congratulations to all the winners and thanks again to all those who participated. It was a great contest.

    Thanks for the questions. I sense your frustrations but I assure you that the winner of the most popular received the most votes and the criteria we followed was the criteria posted on the challenge. Unfortunately, it is our policy to not publish the intricacies of the voting process or results.

    As for testing - and as we communicated to Safad - You will note from the requirements for the contest we require "A semi-functioning proof of concept app". Combined with your YouTube or Vimeo video and screen shots we will judge all the apps. To the extent we wish to test out the complete functionality of your app we will contact you and arrange the additional udids.

    Thanks again for your participation. And best of luck in future competitions.

  •   •   almost 12 years ago

    sense of frustrations?? hahaha... u should be kidding me.. but i still don't seems all my answers still not answered.... well this is the first time i or my team is facing some issues with the challenge post and really loosing respect.

    Also tell me whats harm in knowing how much votes we have got?

    And i guess it would have been better if you guys could " Combined with your YouTube or Vimeo video and screen shots we will judge all the apps. To the extent we wish to test out the complete functionality of your app we will contact you and arrange the additional udids." mention this point before the competition was over. But i still dint understand the logic behind criteria for selection sir.

    Indeed it was great competition but lacked a lot of transperancy.

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