Blaine Dixon wrote:
It seems most if not all of the forum contests have adopted the rule that if you don't vote for any reason your entry gets disqualified from winning. I just declined to accept a win in one of the contests by default because that is really not a win. I did not pay much attention to the discussion previously and I am not sure exactly how this came about or how much input from the members here was considered. I disagree with this rule and will not accept or display any award from such a default decision.

The forum contests are run by the host who is a volunteer and its his contest .
If the  host wishes to include the rule of If you dont vote you win is disallowed , . It is the hosts  choice it is nothing to do with the mods/admin or the site .
If you read this post that is stickied at the top of the contest forum it pertains to the forum contests .
https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=901619

It clearly states in these rules that if you have a problem with the any rules etc to contact the host in question .

As you have stated

Blaine Dixon wrote:
I disagree with this rule and will not accept or display any award from such a default decision.

If you dont like the rule , its simple , dont enter that contest .

SJH photography wrote:

Blaine Dixon wrote:
It seems most if not all of the forum contests have adopted the rule that if you don't vote for any reason your entry gets disqualified from winning. I just declined to accept a win in one of the contests by default because that is really not a win. I did not pay much attention to the discussion previously and I am not sure exactly how this came about or how much input from the members here was considered. I disagree with this rule and will not accept or display any award from such a default decision.

The forum contests are run by the host who is a volunteer and its his contest .
If the  host wishes to include the rule of If you dont vote you win is disallowed , . It is the hosts  choice it is nothing to do with the mods/admin or the site .
If you read this post that is stickied at the top of the contest forum it pertains to the forum contests .
https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=901619

It clearly states in these rules that if you have a problem with the any rules etc to contact the host in question .

As you have stated

If you dont like the rule , its simple , dont enter that contest .


it clearly states

I did and its obvious that most of the contest mods are not interested in the thoughts of the people who participate in the contests.
Its a bad rule and I will not participate in any way with a contest that has that condition.

SJH photography wrote:

Yes that image would of gotten DQ,d
the reason for it would be quite simply
- pubic area (whether hair is present or not)
there is a full list of image rules found here .
https://www.modelmayhem.com/help/rules/images

All images on the site have to abide by these rules wether they are entered into a contest or not .

Just what do you consider "pubic area"?
The problem is that the "pubic area" seems to fluctuate  quite a bit depending on whom the mod is. There needs to be site wide standards not open to individual judgement.

Blaine Dixon wrote:
Just what do you consider "pubic area"?
The problem is that the "pubic area" seems to fluctuate  quite a bit depending on whom the mod is. There needs to be site wide standards not open to individual judgement.

Pubic area = where a male or female would be expected to grow pubic hair.

Blaine Dixon wrote:
Its a bad rule and I will not participate in any way with a contest that has that condition.

You have stated your opinion... and your solution - case closed.

Blaine Dixon wrote:
Not a specific reply but to apply generally to all the years I have been here,  but I am disappointed in the overall negativity and rigidness of what is supposed to be a gathering of progressive artists.

They have to have rules. & I think the rules are reasonable and fairly applied for the most part. Remember judging these things is very subjective. I don't think  rigidity is a problem here and certainly not negativity at least on the part of the contest mods..

Blaine Dixon wrote:
Not a specific reply but to apply generally to all the years I have been here,  but I am disappointed in the overall negativity and rigidness of what is supposed to be a gathering of progressive artists.

You're disappointed that someone who has worked hard developing a forum-based contest doesn't want to change his/her contest to cater to you?

If you don't like their rules don't enter their contest(s).

If you have a "better idea" for a contest, and want to put in many hours to develop and run it... (and have the patience to put up with a never-ending barrage of comments from people that think you are "doing it all wrong") then please send me a CAM and we can start to get your contest set up.

JoJo
Contest Admin

Erin Koski wrote:
As a note, 18+ is not the rule of the forum contest hosts.  18+ rules are outlined in the MM image guidelines of what is acceptable and what is not and how "adult" images need to be classified.  I'm sure plenty of contest hosts would have no problem displaying adult images in their contests, but that would go against site-wide rules. 

Contest hosts have been asked to make sure 18+ images are NOT posted as images and are posted only as linked, and are properly marked as 18+.  That is part of our responsibilities if we want to host a contest.  This is a decision from those in charge of MM and as hosts, we do our best to abide by it. Neither the contest hosts, nor the forum moderators, nor JoJo herself made the rules about what constitutes 18+ and what needs to be done with such images.

We are not perfect and sometimes 18+ images do not get dinked.  If you argue "but this one got by, so why not mine!" I say that just because fewer than 100% of rule-breakers get punished does not mean everyone is free to break rules.   It is like our current justice system.  Even if you don't always get a ticket for speeding, it is still always illegal and you shouldn't gripe when you do get a ticket for it.

+1, fully agree with this well written explanation.

Rick Jolson wrote:
Hey guys- what happened to the results of the December 18th contest (POTD 18+) ?

They''re right here - https://www.modelmayhem.com/contests/po … ups/141218

Eye of the World wrote:
So, again today there is an entry on the vote page that was also in the contest yesterday. It appears the mechanism to catch entries submitted before 15 days is not functioning well.

It has been removed.

Kev Lawson wrote:

JoJo is off right now, I will leave a note for the techs to see why it is not showing.

Aint you so wonderful...But as ALL MODS have said in the past...No Techs work weekends...But Thanks

DOUGLASFOTOS wrote:

Aint you so wonderful...But as ALL MODS have said in the past...No Techs work weekends...But Thanks

That is why I said I will leave them a note, they can check it when they come in on Monday.

SJH photography wrote:
We will not start to get drawn into discussing other images or your own in this thread .

The JUdging  panel thought it was to much EOG on your entered image so it was dqd ..

Obviously, it depends on the photographer. If the phtotg is in the "in group" any of the images are acceptably if you are in the other group, well, I guess the images are dqd.

Desert Shadows Photo wrote:
Obviously, it depends on the photographer. If the phtotg is in the "in group" any of the images are acceptably if you are in the other group, well, I guess the images are dqd.

Incorrect . We do not even know who the photographer/model/digital artist/retoucher/make up artist/hair stylist  is untill the DQ cam is sent ..