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@Artlitsol...And I agree as well. Jan 04 11 12:54 pm Link Laura Dark Photography wrote: I often contemplate whether to voice and opinion or not publicly but I agree with LDP and so on. However...I think most of the frustration can be avoided with Photographer Of The Week and Pic Of The Day if there was a category breakdown or split. Artistic and Conceptual versus Glamour. We will all find that most photographers here on MM are one or the other (in my opinion). There is just too many amazing photographers in the world to have 1 category (or genre) for a contest. I understand if you open one can of worms it will just turn into another but from a conceptual photographer that has never won after countless submissions, always coming in 2nd, 3rd or 4th to a Glamour photo...it gets frustrating to say the least. I respect any and all artists here on MM whether photog or model and everyone has a different view on life...but there's my 2 cents. Is what it is I guess. Jan 04 11 12:55 pm Link anyone who got their regional friends to post for the first or 1100 time and vote for them..congradulations..its a great testomony to your work. also maybe if you condemn vote stacking on here maybe you'll get away with it  . right.. not a single vote..I must really suck lol...ah well..I'll go on and take pluming and hopefully customers will apreciate my pluming skills..last time on here. hasta la vista. Jan 04 11 01:09 pm Link Apparently there is no winner... Lots of hostility today  Here are some notable quotes for everyone: "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell." Buddha "An accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence." Carol Tavris "When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour" Piers Anthony So much for drama free... Jan 04 11 04:15 pm Link Pixel Hax wrote: No votes for me either. Though last week I got a second place finish in this contest for the first time, thanks to the vote stacker infestation. Must've spread here from the POTD and 18+POTD that're hosted by Model Mayhem. Jan 04 11 05:00 pm Link Thank you. Jan 04 11 05:26 pm Link Tom Linkens wrote: I would say we are all winners in this situation.. Just by us submitting our work we are taking the jead and not following and this is what we de, we are on the cutting edge of art. Jan 04 11 06:46 pm Link I agree with Carmine... Jan 04 11 07:47 pm Link I'm not naming names here... but it's a DEAD GIVEAWAY of vote stacking when you have models voting for you who's photos you've entered in the weekly contest... especially when they only have a couple of forum posts in almost 3 years of membership... Jan 04 11 08:11 pm Link    Jan 04 11 08:44 pm Link  This is why I hesitate to move these contests to the main infrastructure as we did the Potd and Potd 18+. We don't get the interaction in those contests anymore. In the forum format we're more like "reality tv" and we all like that right? OK, here's the deal once again. All I need is a heads-up in my mailbox that there might be vote stacking going on. This is like a call to the FBI. No need for anyone to go public at this point. After we get the call, we send an agent in to the field, sometimes me, as is the case tonight, and we investigate these allegations. Sometimes we can't find any solid evidence of vote stacking at all, period. Sometimes we find evidence of stacking very easily, as in newbies generally just don't read the rules. Sometimes it's more difficult to find evidence even when things just don't look right; yes, some of our vote stackers have been around awhile and have learned how to mask the trail by soliciting only people not directly associated with their profiles. We're seeing more facebook solicitation these days as well and we have eyes everywhere so before a contest ends we most likely are aware of what's going on. We take our competitions seriously and we're determined not to allow cheaters to win, even if they didn't know they can't cheat here like do and are even encouraged to do on their "other" sites where incoming traffic is valued over the integrity of competition. At the end of each competition we can honestly say that we've done all we can do to keep the playing field level. With all that being said, let's relax and let me do my job here so we can declare a winner and move on to the next BIG THING~ our "MM Photographer of the Year"!! And all who have submitted entries here will have to resubmit your entries on or after January 11th for them to be recognized....and here's the BIG RED BANNER again.  Jan 04 11 11:02 pm Link thank you. Jan 05 11 02:21 am Link Thank you.. Jan 05 11 02:37 am Link speed of light pictures wrote: Jan 05 11 05:17 am Link I've concluded my investigation of our top contender's votes and have determined that many of them are suspicious. I speculate that several mm members on his friend's list may have contacted their friends in an effort to help this contestant win the competition but I sincerely believe that our contestant had no prior knowledge that his votes were being solicited in this way. For this reason I regret to have to DQ his very artful entry as being non-compliant with Rule #4 of this competition. I have pressing commercial business to attend to today and will return later this afternoon to continue by closely scrutinizing the votes received by our runner up. I regret that this necessary process has delayed the announcement of this week's winner but it's something we must do to maintain the integrity of this important competition. Tonight we will launch our "MM Photographer of the Year" competition and voting will commence immediately upon our presentation of the composite of all our weekly winners for 2010. Thanks for your participation!! Jan 05 11 08:17 am Link Jan 05 11 08:26 am Link CW Images wrote: WELL PUT CARMINE! Jan 05 11 02:52 pm Link  CONGRATULATIONS~ to our very first "MM Photographer of the YEAR" WINNERS~!! MM PHOTOGRAPHER of the YEAR~GOLD MEDALIST~ Laura Dark Photography MM PHOTOGRAPHER of the YEAR~GOLD MEDALIST~MPS-Mr Photo Studios MM PHOTOGRAPHER of the YEAR~SILVER MEDALIST~ ANTHONY NESTE    We'd like to thank MiguelIB and Model Mayhem~ for contributing the follow prizes: GOLD MEDALISTS will receive 1 year VIP membership~!! SILVER MEDALISTS will receive 1/2 year VIP membership~!! In addition, OUR WINNERS will receive Model Mayhem's highest level Award Medallion for their profile page~!! We'd like to thank the following members for their direct supportive efforts. MiguelIB Tom deL xandx Thomas Van Dyke Katie Shawger Cotton Craig Seay Thank you to all who participated this past year in making the Model Mayhem weekly contests the best there are~!! This has been a great learning experience for all of us as we strive to bring the challenges of creative competition to the MM community. We feel the rewards and benefits to all who observe and participate can't be measured, but we know they are great. Looking back on the year 2009, we will take the things we did right and the things we did that at times went wrong, and from this new experience we'll make these competitions even better for all in this new year of 2010. Thanks to all who have contributed with enthusiasm and support, so much to our pioneering efforts in co-creative competition. MM Photographer of the Week /Year MM Model of the Week /Year MM MUA of the Week /Year theLIST presents Newbie Model of the Week /Year Please hold your votes until the collage is posted~!! ~ Craig and theCrew   ********************************************** Jan 05 11 03:21 pm Link CONGRATS to Laura Dark & Karen Jerzyk for POTY and POTW wins. Well deserved. You both inspire me to beat you next year, next week, etc . It may never happen but photographers like yourself give me inspiration. Thank you.Jan 05 11 10:58 pm Link Craig Seay wrote: Jan 06 11 01:05 am Link Jan 06 11 01:44 am Link Congratulations to the Winner of the Sept 11th Photographer of the Week Competition, Cabo Noir Studios.  Better late than never, Cabo Noir can take it's place in the Photographer of the Year Competition xandx wrote: Jan 06 11 02:35 pm Link          Jan 06 11 06:22 pm Link VOTE 10 Jan 06 11 06:47 pm Link #14 Jan 06 11 07:20 pm Link A vote from  #10 Brightonian. Jan 06 11 07:28 pm Link This is incredibly hard... 35 Jan 06 11 07:28 pm Link # 14 Jan 06 11 08:13 pm Link vote #10 Jan 06 11 08:25 pm Link vote 35 Jan 06 11 09:11 pm Link 11 Jan 07 11 06:10 am Link so many great artists! Incredible work, Wow, How can I choose only one. I give my vote to Karen Jerzyk #46 Jan 07 11 05:01 pm Link Vote #35 - love their style, tone, artistry, composition....everything Jan 07 11 07:41 pm Link Vote #5 Congrats to All the nominees! Jan 08 11 12:46 am Link # 30 Jan 08 11 05:42 am Link #5 all the way! Jan 08 11 08:08 am Link A vote from #1 Jan 08 11 10:54 am Link 42 Jan 08 11 03:27 pm Link #5 Jan 08 11 08:17 pm Link vote #10, Brightonian Jan 09 11 02:24 am Link |
