A small note about posts auto-archiving (after 7 days)
a post or comment will be archived into the blockchain.
This means any new votes on that item are null/void.
(but trying may still consume voting power)
Commenting on an archived item is still possible,
but
For most purposes, this will be fine.
For contests lasting longer than 7 days, it creates some issue.
A sign of 'upvote' for purpose of the contest could be:
"+1" as a comment.
depending on the contest host and specific rules, this problem may not even exist, but for ❉▦[ Dawn of the Phantasms ]▦❉, this 7 day period has recently ended, and it would not be a very useful tutorial if it didn't reveal this problem upfront. In cases like these, you should look to the host for instruction on how each particular contest handles the 7 day time limit.
This 7 day period being passed also affects certain comments/posts in a few other ways, such as rounding their listed value to "$0.00", which will affect the default comment sorting of "trending". Any comments beyond 7 days will usually lose their default placements if the thread is still active, depending on the specific platform you're using to view the blockchain. (this is a simplified explanation, but don't worry too much for now.)
As a final note: this means that
I could run a blitz contest, I'm pretty sure making each round in a standard-length piecemaker contest a separate thread would be excessive
Sorting comments by 'age' can help a bit for this type of scenario, and it would be possible to have each round take place in response to a host-made comment while the tournament rules are the post itself. Such as the host making a comment "[ROUND 1 ENTRIES]" and people reply to that.
There are other unexplored options as well, but
the primary limitation is that the original post cannot be edited after 7 daysfor things like having (ongoing)/(finished)/etc. in title to show status, or even results edited into the post at the end.This is one downside that will be hard to get around completely here, compared to a normal forum. Most of the common problems people will find here have some sneaky tool that exists to solve it (although it would be quite the overload to express them all upfront), but archiving into blockchain is not something that a simple tool will change, so it's important for everyone to know aboutthe 7 day edit/vote period.fixed it for you 💗
wait... you did what?
it's useful, isn't it?
awesome! ^_^