Concern about hairstyle voting rules

[lynn_]

It sounds like that's just for the scarf thing. I could be wrong, but.

* In order to receive a Scarf of Wondrous Wit from the voting participation sweepstakes on a specific character, you will need to set that character as your main character on the forum, and use this character to press the “Like!” button. After the voting period has concluded, we will be sending prizes to characters that were set as main characters as of September 6, 2015 at 11:00 p.m. PDT. Selected winners will receive their prizes via Moogle Delivery and there will be no announcement as to who was selected for the sweepstakes.
* “Likes!” will only be counted for the last entry you vote on.

So you won't get more entries the more you "like" hairstyles, it'll just count your last like as your entry for the scarf, if that makes sense.

[WellFooled]

This is all too confusing. And now I don't even remember what I voted for last. I should have only voted for one.

I might be wrong, but un-liking a post and then liking it again would likely be considered your latest like, thus making it the one that counts.

But this only matters if the rule in question isn't just referencing the scarf lottery.

[NaliaBrown]

Now that I've read everything again, and the posts here, it sounds like you get entered in the scarf sweepstakes for voting at all. The "only your last like counts" is probably referring to the actual voting on hairstyles, as some folks above have pointed out. Vote for one male and one female style, and they're counting the last vote you made for each.

But again, I could be wrong! I have no idea anymore! Either way, I went back and removed all but one vote in either category.

[NaliaBrown]

Just wanted to bump this and point out that the contest rules have been updated. As of this morning they say to please vote for one male and one female hairstyle. Only your last "like" counts towards the winning hairstyle.

[Grekumah]

Greetings,

We've added additional details to the Hairstyle Design Contest announcement in regards to voting to hopefully clarify questions we've been seeing. (Additions in bold)

* In order to receive a Scarf of Wondrous Wit from the voting participation sweepstakes on a specific character, you will need to set that character as your main character on the forum, and use this character to press the “Like!” button. After the voting period has concluded, we will be sending prizes to characters that were set as main characters as of September 6, 2015 at 11:00 p.m. PDT. Selected winners will receive their prizes via Moogle Delivery and there will be no announcement as to who was selected for the sweepstakes.
* “Likes!” will only be counted for the last entry you vote on.
* Please only vote for one entry in each category by pressing the “Like!” button.
* Due to the way the forum works, the number of "Likes!" will increase each time they are selected; however, only the final "Like!" from each user will be counted, and there may be instances where the numbers shown on the forum are different than the actual results.

[seraseth]

Just went though and unchecked all my likes and only selected one for each male and female. Was a hard choice!

[Risvertasashi]

Greetings,

We've added additional details to the Hairstyle Design Contest announcement in regards to voting to hopefully clarify questions we've been seeing. (Additions in bold)

I still think the "only the last like" thing is an issue. A lot of people are probably going to/have seen those threads without seeing the rules thread (think links passed around FC chat and similar), and the system allowing them to like as many posts as want biases the results towards later entries...

[sydh]

This is a pretty shitty voting system. Just take the over all votes.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Yeah everyone gonna have to redo their votes now. I think they should start this over. Delete and repost the threads and then extend the voting period.

Besides, one of the entries was disqualified because of plagiarism and starting over would be a good opportunity to replace that entry with something else to vote on.

[MsCroc]

I would not unlike everything you like, if I were you.
Just unlike everything, then go back and re-like everything while making sure your favorite gets the last vote.
It sounds like even though there will be one winner, they will likely make more than one of the finalists. So if some of the other entries have high votes, they might include that hair style too.

Thus, it is actually beneficial to vote multiple times, even if only one vote counts for the contest.