Hello to all hackathon participants and community members, we received several questions from the community members regarding vote-buying. As it should be obvious that vote-buying is not allowed in competitions and voting around the world, the same rule applies here. It is also clear that the goal of hackathon community voting is to select good projects that are popular within the community, not projects that have the most incentives to give out.
However, since we did not explicitly state this obvious vote-buying rule up-front, let us do it now to clarify.
- Hackathon participants can guide your supporters to check out the forum and vote for your project if they like it
- Hackathon participants cannot force someone to vote for you
- Hackathon participants cannot incentivize someone to vote for you (in the form of cash, token, reward, gift, or potential benefit of any kind)
If you have been practicing vote buying, please stop doing this.
If you notice other project teams that have been practicing vote buying, please direct them to check out this post.
The TRON DAO team reserve the right to analyze and remove spam, duplicate or malicious votes, or even disqualify teams with unethical practices to keep the community voting as fair as possible. That’s why we have a waiting period after community voting so the Hackathon team can analyze the votes and user accounts closely.
To all the teams that are participating fairly out there, kudos to you!
To all the Tronics that voice out for a fair hackathon, good on you and thanks for being a part of this!
A great hackathon project should get the community’s support and vote naturally - it shouldn’t need incentivization to gain votes.