Exclusive and Deluxe Tier Story Winners
So as most of you know, each month I select one person randomly from the Exclusive and Deluxe tiers to receive a free short story.
Normally I do this via random number generator and then contact the winners to get their prompt. However, for the last few months I have not gotten any response from the winners, which means they don't get their story, so I think it's time to switch to a new system.
The best option I can think of for now is a post made at the beginning of each month, the first person to comment from the respective tier is the winner.
If you have any other suggestions please feel free to comment them below.
Comments (11)
Maybe put the people that comment on a post into a generator after giving a day or two for comments? I think that would be the fairest system, so time zones, school, errands, work, etc. don't interfere.
That's a great idea! That way I know they are likely to respond since they commented within the last 24 hours.
I guess the first comment could work, but I think a random user from the pool of comments would focus on interested people but still leaving some margin for chance.
Maybe just use the random number generator to select from the people who comment on an entry post. That way it's still random, so there's the element of fairness, but you're choosing people who are definitely active.
That sounds better
At least have some sort of rule that the same person can't win twice in a row or something.
I already have that rule in place, I make sure the same person cannot be chosen twice within 6 months
I don’t know, its not exactly fair in regarding time zones and such. Like for me it 04:29 in the morning right now. I usually try to be a sleep by now.
I would schedule the post for a different time each month, so sometimes it will be posted at 1am my time, other times 7am, 10pm etc
I like this idea 😁
Cool. Sounds like a good plan.