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On 02/10/2008 @ 01:27, Valacar said:
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> 1. If the Jury was to have the final decision, why was this not announced at the beginning of the contest?

See previous replies to this question.

> 2. Who chose the Jury, and how "stylistically balanced" is it (too lazy to do research about the mags now ;))?

Each magazine sponsor got to propose one of their editors for the jury, MI7 didn't pick them. They represented a pretty wide cross-section of musical taste, both personally and in the mags they worked for.

> 3.Why was the period of voting for users so long?

We wanted to give as many people as possible the chance to both enter and vote - and as it happened we were getting quite a lot of both entries and votes right up to the deadlines, so clearly many other people wanted that as well.

> 4. Why was the Top30 frozen for over a month - and of all things the decisive last month - with no movements or updates at all?

See other post above for reply to this.

> Personally, I would strongly wish that the administration made the next contests of this size more transparent from the very beginning and all throughout the process. Also, there should be a way to prevent users voting who just register here for that one purpose and are never being heard of again - that simply makes the contests into fashion shows of "who can activate the largest fan base?" How about something like "the user should have been a part of MI7 at least two months before the contest", as a precondition for voting?

I do like that idea. I want to make sure these contests are fair just as much as you guys do, trust me. We at MI7 do this stuff because we genuinely love having the ability to bring musicians together, encourage them to communicate, and give them better tools to make music with. That's why we're here. So we really do appreciate your suggestions for making things better - hence this thread in the first place I suppose :-)

Rodney

Thanks Rodney! I understand…

Hi Rodney,

thank you for taking the time to explain some of the misunderstandings.
It is a good thing that mi7 takes the effort to listen to the members. It is indeed time to look ahead and concentrate on new music and collaborations in this inspiring community.
Anyway, to Ann and me it has been a big honour to have made it into the top ten of this contest.

Jef

Hallo ...is there anybody in there???
Once in half a year I would ask you, Rodney, to help me to get rid of this studioprojects mike.
Greetings - Niko

Hi,

we've noticed it too. Will try to find out what has happened and let you know.

Cheers,
/Emil

On 08/13/2008 @ 06:19, Mindmovie said:
> no change in the last 22 days still incredibly slow here

Agreeing with my friend Mindmovie, there are some strong technical problems since a longer time on this site. Some things are still incredibly slow, also a short message problem, often with error message after writing and then posting a short message. So, it´s not inspiring to write these messages again and again.
I hope that we have back the old "drive" very soon again, please check out the MI7 surfer system - or is each technical MI7 crack still in holiday?

High Hopes and greetings..

If you really care about keeping this community alive It would be great and everybody would be more than thankful if you can fix the performance problems. It takes meanwhile hours to load up a new song, even looking into the community or trying to login to my profile is taking ages. In other words - in good old times it was a pleasure to visit this beautiful place - now it has got almost impossible. And this is not my PC or the connection I have a high speed internet connection. Myspace just takes nano second while MI7 takes minutes just to visit a friends profile.
Hey guys please help us to make this paradise again ?

On 09/08/2008 @ 10:48, Emil Hansson said:
> Hi!
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> We are very much aware of the problems with performance and sending private messages but are waiting for our programmers to help.
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> Cheers,
> Emil

Now, see; that was entirely the wrong thing to write. Whether you realize it or not, you represent the entire company when you post something, and you just said the following: "we know what the problem is, but it's not a priority".

Fine. I mean, I know there's probably not a lot of money being in the community business; but I tell you this - there was a period of time when I was very active here, and it had absolutely nothing to do with the competition you were running. There was a healthy community, great musicians, and good company support/interest in keeping it running.

You take that support away, and other things will go away too. Simple as that.

On 09/12/2008 @ 03:08, Emil Hansson said:
> Hi,
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> our programmers have been looking at the problem and have already made some improvements to the performance. As you might have noticed the private messaging error is gone too.
> Performance wise I would say it's good now or do you still think it's slow?
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> Have a nice day!
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> Emil

Hi Emil,
it seems, that you guys had resolved the error problems of several weeks,
now we can only hope, that no too much people had leaved this place. It could be helpful to inform the members in the future, if any error will return here. Thanks for repairing, everything seems to work again!
Blue Planet