first of all, the 25% for comment should go to whatever you judge to be the best idea, not number of votes since it can be exploited by the kind of people messaging me on steemit.chat and discord to help with random contests that do the same, it ends up being a challenge of who can spam the most people.
second, the lottery should go to someone random, steemd.com allows you to see the list of ALL voters, where steemit allows only a certain number then says ... and X more. So using that list, you should generate some number then count from top left across until you find their name, simple as that :)
totally agree!!!
You came up with the steemd.com option wich was unknown to me and works out fine. You got the most votes and thus wins this contest according to its rules. I agree that this should not be a spamming or in anyways negative post. For the #2 Lottery I will set a #1 price of 50% and a #2 price of 25%
An amount of $0.36 SBD has been sent :)