Stanley L Moore wrote:

Like antipathy towards males? The man is bound and obviously in a submissive position. Most bondage scenes involve women.

That may be true in the realm of pay per view BDSM porn, but in the real world of BDSM, lots of men are tied and otherwise bound

billy badfinger wrote:
MM Overlords,
Any way to delete my entry for today...I submitted a low res thumb instead
of the full size image...sorry!

Checked today's uploads and yesterday's uploads in the PotD, PotD18+F and the PotDM and couldn't find any entry from your account.

billy badfinger wrote:
Sorry,it's on TODAY'S vote page...I only realized what I had done when I went to
vote (for myself!) and saw that the pic was all jaggy and funky...
I figured it was too late to do anything but,thought I would ask.
Thank you as always.

It's gone

Mark Leighton wrote:
Agreed. There is one clear violation of the rules and another which I would say is against them but could be borderline. In the Mens 18+

I saw 2 in today's 18+ contest that make me wonder how they got in the contest. JoJo must have taken a well-deserved night off....

Update: Thanks for such a quick response, JoJo! Sorry about your router. Glad you got it resolved! -g

Gaze at Photography wrote:
Did JoJo have the night off last night?  Today's seems to be kicked up a notch or two.

Multiple
Male
Genitalia
et al

No - JoJo's router decided to die - try getting a replacement router at 02:00am.

JoJo wrote:

No - JoJo's router decided to die - try getting a replacement router at 02:00am.

My condolences. Flowers?  It's so obvious when you aren't at the helm.

Lifestyle_Images wrote:
3 DIFFERENT images are selected.

That's because the vote page is built to display the images in random order each time the page loads (for fairness I assume).

Nelia wrote:
I just accidentally submitted an image a second time for the POTD 18+ contest.  When I checked my submissions using Sendu's POTD 15 day checker, the image did not show up:

https://www.sendu.me.uk/modelmayhem/15_day/?mm_id=15013

Please delete the duplicate image.  Thanks!

Edit:  I just realized that I submitted the image from my other account.  Still please delete the image I just submitted today.

Thanks for the heads-up... I'll remove the second posting

David Stone Imaging wrote:
...The reason I say this is I cannot recall a photo that was wider than high ever winning.  And I think the reason is that the thumbnail for this kind of image is just too small to get attention.

Of course, immediately you say that, one wins the male comp.

I often click through, but not always.  But it's not a real photography competition, anyway - most people vote for pictures they like, not pictures they consider to be good photographs.  It's the crowd pleaser that usually wins.

Lifestyle_Images wrote:
Wow.... this must be a new record.  9 (NINE) non-18+ images based on MM rules and one image with a finger inserted into a vagina made it through to voting today.

Must be those pesky code bugs that no one will fix. ;-)

No bugs. It's what ppl send in.  Some of those I think are not safe for work, which means they should be in the 18+, others are clearly not 18+

But that doesn't bother me.

What you should do, is cam them all.

Gaze at Photography wrote:
No bugs. It's what ppl send in.  Some of those I think are not safe for work, which means they should be in the 18+, others are clearly not 18+

But that doesn't bother me.

What you should do, is cam them all.

I was being sarcastic as "bugs" have been used by some to excuse lots of things on this site that don't happen the way they are supposed to, usually when the ball dropper was a Mod or Admin.

As far as CAMing, I'm done helping the Mods do their job.

Lifestyle_Images wrote:
Wow.... this must be a new record.  9 (NINE) non-18+ images based on MM rules and one image with a finger inserted into a vagina made it through to voting today.

Must be those pesky code bugs that no one will fix. ;-)

"and one image with a finger inserted into a vagina"

WOW!!! you must have great vision to actually see this.

When I validate the contests I use only my browser (Chrome) set at 125% zoom.
On occasion I zoom to 150% and rarely to 200%.

On the image you mention I zoomed to the maximum of Chrome, 500%...
I then loaded the image into PhotoShop and zoomed in to 1600%.
I wanted to make absolutely sure that there was no actual (explicit) insertion/penetration. There was none.

What you see is implied... and acceptable.



As for the 9 non 18+ images - who's interpretation of the rules are you using?

There are 2 image in the contest that do not properly qualify as 18+ images according to the rules... but these 2 images contain "too much" to be properly classified as acceptable in the PotD.
The submitters of both of these images have read and understand the rules correctly and have chosen to enter the images in the PotD18+.

(and yes, there are images on MM that are "too much" for the PotD but "not enough" for the PotD18+)

Lifestyle_Images wrote:
As far as CAMing, I'm done helping the Mods do their job.

Dare I say “Hallelujah”?

Ron T Photo wrote:
I accidentally posed an image that was used less than 15 days ago. Can it be removed from the 18+ contest please?

It will be taken care of - thanks for the heads-up

Gaze at Photography wrote:
Do you vote on the thumbnail, or do you click through prior?

First, a rant....

How many photographers take the time (or have the inclination) to reduce their finished work down to avatar size or contest thumb size before they release the image?
The presentation of the thumbnail in the contest is VERY important.
Most photographers and retouchers have never thought to do this. They figure the thumbnail is just the small version of their work.
Take a look at the photographers that consistently win - why do their thumbnails in the contest always look so much better than anyone else's entries?
These people know how to 'present' their work... and they win.

Next time you are about to enter an image, stop - reduce the image down to thumb size and take a long look at the thumbnail. What can you do to make the thumbnail look better?
You may say the full sized pic and the thumb are identical... and you would be both correct and incorrect. The two pics ARE the same but if you really take time to look you will "see" different things in the thumb/full sized pic.

No, JoJo has not been smoking her old socks - make your thumbnails POP and you WILL increase your vote standing in the contests - this is called 'presentation' and it DOES work


Now to answer your question...

A small percentage of voters vote just on the thumbnail - their loss.
A smaller percentage of voters just look for the pic they came to vote on - they never look at the other entries.
A very small percentage of voters actually vote from their phones/hand-helds in text-only mode.

During MM's image server problems there were entries that received multiple votes on pics that did not exist... even the thumbs did not exist.

The rest, the vast majority, actually look at the big pics before they vote.

JoJo wrote:
First, a rant....

How many photographers take the time (or have the inclination) to reduce their finished work down to avatar size or contest thumb size before they release the image?

Next time you are about to enter an image, stop - reduce the image down to thumb size and take a long look at the thumbnail. What can you do to make the thumbnail look better?

What are the magic numbers?  I will do whatever it takes to present my images properly.