What Srijan just did here is nothing different what political parties do to attract more attention when their policies and programs fail to attract popular notion of appeal while detractors are on the rise(here Writers)
Paying to top the point charts is cheap gimmick, soon to fail idea that not only will promote unhealthy practices - unnecessary and incessant polling, commenting that has no truth and consequently defeat the purpose of writerbabu.
If a writer writes for fair reviews here, replies have to be truthful and comments constructive, With money on the mind, as i have experienced in the past 24 hours, i have been given speechless which is the worst post ever i have written. Along comes a comment that was better not written.
If writerbabu was losing good writers it will now breed a culture of writing for gains with mal attitudes.
Pathetic idea srijan!
Surely there is a need to improvise. There is a need to improvise in all fields and same is the case for this particular contest. From the next time the reputation gains will be awarded only for comments more than 100 character and one will be able to take polls at the interval of not less than a minute. These things may help in preventing the unnecessary nuisance that people like you might have to face. On other fronts things are improving constantly. Today, I implemented the option to view author's activity history. There you will be able to see all the posts on which he/she had commented in the past. Polls are not included in the feed as they are anonymous activity.
I admit this was a mistake that this competition was launched without proper readiness for all situations. And that is why it is designed to be a weekly event so that it will keep getting improved week on week.
I apologise to every author who had to face such unwanted comments.
P.S: It would have been really great if you were not anonymous.