[unknown] In the correspondence above, we opened the most exciting question and this topic has ceased to be relevant, of course, if our detailed answer is not enough for you, you can tell us about it.
If there are still questions on our Scopuly project, the answers to which would like to receive, please do this in the Scopuly project branch so as not to mix personal with general. Let's keep order.
Thank you for understanding.
I also want to clarify the recent account suspensions. Two kinds of accounts were suspended:
Accounts with an invalid email address.
Having a reachable email address is a requirement for having a GalacticTalk account. If your email bounces with a "this email account doesn't exist" message it will be suspended. If you regain access to your email address you can message support@galactictalk.org from it and I will reactivate the account.
Sockpuppet accounts
If a group of accounts has <same_name>@<different_email_service> emails, posts from the same IP addresses, always in the same topics, the whole group was suspended. Also if you created a post with one account, then delete it and reposted the same content with another account using the same IP address, one account was suspended. I took extra care to double check every suspension.
We’ve started work on a separate web app featuring weighted votes based on a handful of signal items. We’ll still encourage discussion on GalacticTalk because I think it's important - but the voting/project-sorting will not be on GT or Reddit. It will be a site specifically designed for the SCF, iterating on what we’ve learned from this round and what we’ll learn in future rounds."
The web app will likely not be ready until round 3, so the current system will need to continue with some tweaks until then. However, we will definitely be utilizing the community fund channel discussion to figure out how to best weigh signals.
It seems to me that such voting website looks like a good idea for the next round of SCF itself. SDF has so many important things to do right now. Just prepare a short description, and I'm pretty sure that someone from the community will be eager to implement and maintain the open-source voting website for the future SCF rounds. You can host it on your own infrastructure to eliminate possible manipulations from the project developers.
It's kind of cool if SCF competition participants could build the voting platform for the upcoming rounds. As C# core platform developers said once, "every mature programming language should have a compiler written in this language".
Using the example of one project from the top 7, we will analyze an example, and let this example serve as the end of injustice, since it already becomes like a circus, which is extremely unacceptable for such a project.
The Timed Transactions API project (nothing personal, you are cool guys, you have nothing to do with it) now has 19 votes, only 29 votes, but about 10 accounts from April and later means 19 valid, and from these 19, 7 photos of their profile , where there is no activity at all, or several messages in one topic. It follows that 12 valid votes may be offset. If you showed such a courtesy to all, this message would not have followed.
If you have already begun to do the cleaning, let's do it totally, so that in no case no one can refute your decision, thereby putting into question the fairness and decency of voting, and this is a direct way to destruction.
We want only one thing, so that all of us, the developers, will be calm and confident that if the Stellar team makes a decision, then it is flawless and it bears the same value for everyone, and not for individual individuals.
Please do not respond to my message, but just once again carefully double-check all voices, and restore full confidence, which we really lack.
Respectfully, Alex
(Scopuly Team)
AlexGrotesk You bring forth a very valid point in that sock puppet accounts can be less obvious than the credentials the recent account purge was based on.
For example, we can analyze the votes for Scopuly. Of the 24 votes, there are a handful of similarly named accounts where there is no activity at all, or several messages in one topic. The following two accounts were created closely together last year and show post history only within Scopuly topics:
https://galactictalk.org/u/JackLadowsky
https://galactictalk.org/u/desert021
In addition, several new accounts with the FirstnameLastname convention were created closely together after the SCF phase begun. They have no post history and are inactive since giving a like to the Scopuly entry.
Of course this could all be a very odd coincidence 
We draw your attention to the fact that you did not take into account the fact that we do not insist on the return of votes, on the contrary, we insist and urge you to pay attention to the facts we have cited, which should be absolutely relevant to all participants. About our votes that are not counted - we do not claim this.
Yes, and also, it is not necessary to enter into protection when the message was addressed to a completely different client. After all, citing such tough arguments, I am sure it will not be difficult to answer, but I did not insist, but on the contrary did not call for an answer, so let's finally close the topic with voting and achieve justice for all participants.
Of course, it’s best to respond to what you want, and not to what really requires an answer. I understand that the question is not entirely satisfactory, but what to do, we did not think about everything.
Let's not breed a circus, already done enough =)
Good luck to everyone in the final! We are watching the scene =)
Thank!
bkolobara Yes, we had several accounts from the past .. You did everything clearly and correctly. We must inform that we apologize to all participants of this SCF.
In fact, when all these things and the conflict between the participants of the competition pop up - we all, I noticed, get even closer together, because we all have different projects and we all do one big thing - raise Stellar so that he would lift us all.
Therefore, we wish everyone good luck, patience, inexhaustible inspiration and growth of projects!
Hi, I'm trying to post a new topic about our project into Stellar Community Fund but it says that I do not have permission. What should I do?
gratzio I'd start with reading the rules.
citystates thank you very much for your guidance. I did read SCF guidelines previously. Couldn't find anything on permissions though. Please advise.
StellarZac The first SCF round will begin today and end on June 30. Final voting will begin on June 23 and run 1 week.
StellarZac Final voting will be held on /r/Stellar.
StellarZac Voting will last 7 days.
If you didn't see it yet, the winners have been announced:
