Microsoft's advice and other things that make contests on Habré and not only

In the light of the ongoing contest of prototypes on the "Expression blend".

How to organize contests:

1. Advance announce the essence of the competition, the rules and terms.
2. At first works are accepted, participants are not shown, voting is not made.
3. Then acceptance of work is completed, and a vote opens.

Then it will not turn out that someone who has laid out earlier receives additional votes.

This is the basics of organizing such events.
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* By the way, it seemed to me, or there was some time ago a dump of votes for some of the work?