Sodelicious Campaign Terms

VOTING MECHANICS

• One Vote = One Dot! Casting your vote adds an ellipsis to the "sodelicious…" meter
• One Vote Per Work: You may vote for any/all eligible works once.
• Views =/= Votes: View counts, displayed below the work, do not count towards or against sodelicious… votes.
• Log In. You must be logged in to vote. If you don't already have a scorefol.io account, clicking on vote will prompt our system to create an account for you, sending a passcode link to your provided email.
• Where to vote: Voting takes place on the scorefol.io work page of any eligible work, above the score.
• Where to find eligible works: All eligible works can be found on our official page https://scorefol.io/sodelicious, but you may also arrive at one through other paths. If the work is eligible, you'll know because a sodelicious meter will appear above the score.
• Voting Window: Voting opens on November 16, 2025 and closes on December 16, 2025.

INTEGRITY & FAIRNESS

• No Fakes/Bots: We strictly prohibit voting from multiple accounts or using automated voting tools.
• Disqualification Right: We use programmatic and manual checks to ensure integrity. If we suspect fake votes or automated activity, we reserve the right to disqualify the votes or the submitting composer/account.
• Opt-In/Out: To become eligible for the "sodelicious…" campaign, composers will have already opted in and set their submitted works to "public" on scorefol.io during the open submission period. If the composer wishes to opt-out during the "sodelicious…" campaign, they may hide their submission by setting the work to private. Composers who opt out will still be eligible to have their work selected for the "Follow My Score" track to be presented on our YouTube channel.

TRANSPARENCY IN PRESENTATION

• Why is the order on https://scorefol.io/sodelicious changing? The voting table will randomize periodically to reduce placement bias and ensure every eligible work gets seen fairly. The frequency of randomization may increase at peak voting hours to help ensure fairness.
• Meter Overflow: It is possible (and even likely) that works will receive more votes than the "sodelicious…" meter can display—an intended behavior that provides our team buffer time to monitor for cheating. Any new valid votes added to a full meter will still count, but it will be impossible for visitors to ascertain the raw vote count in this scenario. Results will be displayed when the voting period is over.

THE PRIZE

• The community-selected composer receives $1,000, an interview, and a total of three works produced and posted on our channel.
• In the event of a tie, Score Follower will continue applying 24-hour runoffs until a winner emerges.
• Sodelicious =/= FMS: The sodelicious community voting selection process is independent of the adjudicated Follow My Score selection process. Those who have opted into sodelicious will be eligible for both tracks; those not opted into sodelicious will only be eligible for our standard FMS call where we select 30 works.

APPROPRIATION OF "SODELICIOUS"

On November 15, 2021, a prolific YouTube commenter, already infamous for writing "so good…", "quite good…", and "minimalism…" on thousands of videos across the Score Follower channels and many of our peers' channels, posted a concise message on the Score Follower Discord server: "It can be likened to finding new deliciousness other than sweetness." This was the day sodelicious… began. What started as a food metaphor born from a conversation among a handful of new-music nerds trying to describe the appeal of the music we love, has since become a full-blown community meme.

After November 15 2021, we all observed as videos deserving of "so good…" or "quite good…" comments got "sodelicious…" instead. At first we didn't understand how to interpret it all. "so good…" we thought, was a highest honor, while "minimalism…" was likely borderline derogatory. Where did "sodelicious…" fit in to this value scale? But as time went on, we realized that he was not just integrating a new term into his YouTube comment vocabulary; this was the beginning of a new era: It was ALWAYS "sodelicious…" Every video. He was more focused than ever before. The only variable from video to video was the quantity of ellipses. Do more ellipses signal a greater enthusiasm? Does it mean anything?

We gave him his own channel on our Discord server. Just about any YouTube video he has commented "sodelicious…" on, are archived on the channel. We've since designed shirts/hoodies with the slogan, used the meme in Follow My Score calls, all with his polite permission. We've asked him to be a paid juror several times, but he prefers to stay out of it, and to remain private. We respect that, and deeply honor his commitment to this music, and the lore he has brought to the community.