I agree with everything @lordbutterfly has said here, the Vibes Team is in unison, gratitude is the best attitude to have, humbleness, humility and character are keys to being a great musician as well when connecting with the audience, being a part of the community and supporting, encouraging and inspiring others through music.
And it goes without saying @melitzamusic is the only artist to hold two 2nd place prizes, as of now, and we receive multiple hundreds of entries, and other people also deserve recognition and shine. Even last week 1st place winner @ibukundeborah was the best in my opinion, and that's how the community voted her as well, even though other entries could also have won 1st place, including @melitzamusic's entry, this is the reality of competitions involving the fair community voting process, everyone is involved, and the support we receive is because of Vibes' existence thanks to @lordbutterfly and @silentscreamer for founding it and securing the investors behind it to reward everyone
Vibes is a great opportunity for us all and I am thankful to be a part of it. I hope everyone else realizes that also and shares the same sentiments to want to push it forward and expand it for the benefit of the whole community. Big things are on the horizon.
Please research what a curation trail is in detail. Upvotes on a post through curation and curation trails for an entry does not reflect actual users upvoting the entry as some users are signed up for a curation trail which means if I create a curation trail, and 10 people join it, whatever and whoever I upvote, those 10 accounts from those users also upvote what I upvote, everytime, and some whale accounts have hundreds of people on their curation trail and that does not translate to the actual support or views of a Vibes Entry posted here on the Blockchain. Hence, why the support and votes shown on a Post isn't reflected through the support and votes from the Community voting process before we announce the winners.
@verbal-d, I am sorry that you got confused and did not understand what I mean, I am not referring to upvotes, I am referring to votes in the poll that have nothing to do with the interactions of the publications in hive. For example: What's the use of having 70 votes in a poll when that same publication has 40 views in hive, and the other 30 views where are they? they don't see the video? they don't see the videos of others? the public votes are just inflated numbers that don't interact with the vibes community? it's not the first time it happens, I'm sure you have seen this pattern happen more than once.
It's a good question, thanks for the explanation, votes aren't solely based on the views of only the Hive Post, because entries are being crossed posted on the Web2 platforms, and some votes are coming in from newly created Hive accounts from the onboarding process and they saw the entry on tiktok, youtube, X twitter, then they make the required Hive account and vote for the entry on Hive for the Community Voting poll, but they didn't view the Hive Post that had also the video or link there because they viewed it somewhere else. And we are working behind the scenes to make the competition better, more fair, reduce any possible ways for manipulation and so forth. The winners who have won so far up until now, have been definitely deserving and worthy, and the judging process will only get better with more effort and care.