RPF 2nd Annual Halloween Contest - Male - VOTE NOW!
- Thread starter Art Andrews
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Howlrunner
Sr Member
The competition is fierce. A lot of fantastic entries, and a lot of time and hard work spent on them. Good work everyone. 
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*** NOTE: We have temporarily closed the voting due to some technical issues. Voting will probably reopen sometime tomorrow. As a result of this issue, the voting will be extended, and we will announce a revised closing date.
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Hello everyone. I am sure you are wondering why we shut down the voting for the costume contest earlier today. If you have looked at the poll results, you are also probably wondering why all the numbers are drastically lower than they were earlier today.
Late yesterday a couple of members recognized a loophole in the polling software that allowed non-members to vote repeatedly for a single entrant. We let it slide because it didn’t appear that anyone was taking advantage of that fact or skewing the contest results. Unfortunately that changed earlier today and got so bad that we were forced to stop the polls.
Our initial intent was to allow both members and non-members vote in this contest, allowing entrants to encourage their friends as well as fellow board members to vote for them. However, because we can’t control non-members from exploiting this loophole and voting repeatedly, we have been forced to block non-members from voting and discounting all non-member votes.
We are very sorry that it has come to this and that a few over-zealous non-members have ruined it for everyone. We are resuming the voting (keeping all members votes) but only allowing members to vote.
To the entrants, you can still have your friends vote for you, but unfortunately, they will have to register to be able to vote. Thank you for your support and understanding.
Because we had to stop the contest and lost a day, we are going to run the contest through Monday, Nov 14 and announce winners on Nov 15.
Late yesterday a couple of members recognized a loophole in the polling software that allowed non-members to vote repeatedly for a single entrant. We let it slide because it didn’t appear that anyone was taking advantage of that fact or skewing the contest results. Unfortunately that changed earlier today and got so bad that we were forced to stop the polls.
Our initial intent was to allow both members and non-members vote in this contest, allowing entrants to encourage their friends as well as fellow board members to vote for them. However, because we can’t control non-members from exploiting this loophole and voting repeatedly, we have been forced to block non-members from voting and discounting all non-member votes.
We are very sorry that it has come to this and that a few over-zealous non-members have ruined it for everyone. We are resuming the voting (keeping all members votes) but only allowing members to vote.
To the entrants, you can still have your friends vote for you, but unfortunately, they will have to register to be able to vote. Thank you for your support and understanding.
Because we had to stop the contest and lost a day, we are going to run the contest through Monday, Nov 14 and announce winners on Nov 15.
Howlrunner
Sr Member
Good call Art. In all honesty, I always wished it was a members-only vote in the first place. There are some FANTASTIC costumes on display here and it was a little sad that it was becoming a popularity contest rather than a true reflection of the hard work and dedication put in by entrants.
Good call Art. In all honesty, I always wished it was a members-only vote in the first place. There are some FANTASTIC costumes on display here and it was a little sad that it was becoming a popularity contest rather than a true reflection of the hard work and dedication put in by entrants.
It is really unfortunate that it came to this, but we were left with no choice.
Dirtyrodriguez
New Member
Great costumes all round, it was tough to choose who to vote for. gotta say hats off to all who entered they are all truely great costumes.
Bizarro Lois
Sr Member
This was a really hard decision to make. I had narrowed my list down to a few favorites, but there was one that kind of called out to me. Lots of really great effort though.
simul8r
Member
The sad thing is some WERE doing really well with their social networking and it sucks that we had to penalize everyone because a few voters couldn't play fairly.
