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Poll: Have you voted or rated entries in the current ProZ.com Translation contest?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
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Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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NO Jun 20

As I've already said several times and at the risk of repeating myself, I was rather keen on these contests, took part in several between 2008 and 2014 and won a few. By then, I considered these contests both entertaining and challenging, but after a while, I felt they were very poorly designed. One of the flaws is that each contestant is allowed to judge the other fellow contestants. Are we really so impartial to be fair to other people’s entries? Is it possible to be both judge and party in ... See more
As I've already said several times and at the risk of repeating myself, I was rather keen on these contests, took part in several between 2008 and 2014 and won a few. By then, I considered these contests both entertaining and challenging, but after a while, I felt they were very poorly designed. One of the flaws is that each contestant is allowed to judge the other fellow contestants. Are we really so impartial to be fair to other people’s entries? Is it possible to be both judge and party in a contest? I don’t think so! Hence, I will not take part both as contestant and as reviewer until the rules become fair and transparent.

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Michele Fauble
Simon Turner
Inés Cendón Rodríguez
Zea_Mays
Barbara Carrara
Paul Adie
writeaway
 
Christopher Schröder
Christopher Schröder
United Kingdom
Member (2011)
Swedish to English
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No Jun 21

No languages I could vote on.

Even if there were, it’s a waste of time when they don’t choose a winner in most languages. I’ve suggested they give KudoZ points to encourage votes but this has fallen on deaf ears.

Zea_Mays
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Barbara Carrara
Thayenga
 


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