The openmic tag has always been for the open mic contest. That's what it was created for. People use it for all kinds of crazy shit, even stuff not related to music, but it is supposed to be for the contest only.
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I have used it for older music live performances of mine, as i remember it was allowed to do so, but i'm asking because probably there is too much people using the tag and making the voting harder...
It has always been just for the steemit open mic contest. when people use it for other things it makes it harder to find entries to the contest.
Yeah but i mean older videos, as previous weeks there was stated that
"You can still post an older video if you want and enter so you can earn on your post, but prize money will not be paid out for those posts."
So i have used the tag for older videos before, but i am thinking if everybody use the tag for older videos, it could make very hard to find actual contest entries, so we probably better stop doing this?, just an idea, there could be proposed a new tag for older videos, so the openmic tag is dedicated to only new entries... :)
Oh, my bad. Didn;t mean to confuse anyone.
Back then people were grabbing videos they had made before they knew about the Steemit Open MIc contest and using them to enter the contest. I allowed it because the contest was smaller back then and I like to promote
musicians.
But the tag was created for the contest and it was always just for entering the contest, not to promote any video at all. People sometimes use it not knowing there is a contest behind it and I'll usually let them know.
Now that it is growing so fast it is even more important that the openmic tag is ONLY used for the contest. I can't tell you the extra hours it takes to filter out all the people using the tag that are not part of the contest. It really adds to the time requirements.
Yep that is pretty much what i was thinking man!... This has grown too fast and too big!, i remember when i first joined just 2 months ago, there was not so much entries compared to now, i used to check them all easily...
It's about to evolve again. Stay tuned for new announcements.
Actually i got an idea that you could maybe use: Create a new tag, something like "openmic-contest" exclusive for the contest entries, and leave people use the usual openmic tag for older live performances and such... That way you guys can curate, judge and upvote the contest entries, and maybe once that is ready give some upvotes to old tag... That could help to purge the contest entries, and still include all people performances that are not exclusively for the contest...
I think this could work because the openmic tag have evolved into some kind of "trail" for musicians, everybody is using the tag, somehow the contest have brought us all together...