RE: The Questions Contest #47 | What would be the best way to spend 100$ today? | Reply and win SBD & Smartcash!
Mandatory vote, you don't, most people if they play they will vote, but demanding one, I am still not sure about. Mandatory resteem you didn't require, I don't think it is right. Yes most people that play in games and contest do resteem, but some do not want their blog page cluttered with other peoples post. So when I say "charge" those are the two things that jump out at me, I have seen contest that now say 100% up vote required to play, that is fine, but they will never get me to play in their game. I am a very firm believer in it is your "vote" do with it what you want. New users are trying to get a leg up, most are not looking for a handout. But they only have so many votes to cast a day. So when pages or people demand that a vote be used, I see that as charging them. After all it is vote that carries the reward, not the comment.
From my point of view if people wants to vote my contest is fine, they gate curator rewards too, it means it interests them and that's why you have voting power that refills. If they resteem the post i'm grateful. Actually asking for an upvote goes against steemit rules so you shouldn't ask for votes to participate. Anyway I feel this rule makes no sense because you are doing nothing wrong asking for a vote to join your game...it's like paying an entrance for a show or playing a slit machine, you play for playing it. Btw, I included one of your hashtags in the last question :)