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Regarding the T-Shirt contest
12 years ago
We couldn't have said it better...thank you Max. (pulled from a post on the last journal)
-He said, and we quote:
"The voting was completely open to the public and at the mercy of the majority rule. Whether or not someone may or may not have prodded their friends to vote for a particular submission is a moot point. Being public voting, every submission is subject to the same treatment and it is at the whim of artists, their friends, fans of artists, fans of submissions, etc to call upon the public or people within their circle to vote for any one submission. Rallying people to vote is not "fixing" the vote; otherwise we may as well not bother voting for any presidents.
Regardless of such, any person prodded to vote for a submission are of their own free will to pick whichever submission they want. This is why it is called public voting. Or in other words, the con staff has no control of the winner.
It's entirely possible the rules were loosened on the criteria for the submissions because there was a lack of any. Just for example, in light of only 3 credible submissions, do you only vote on those three or do you open up the rules to allow more people a chance to win? How is the latter favoritism? Do you think they hand picked particular submissions to allow to slide? I believe it's more they slackened the rules to a point that they got enough submissions to have a variety of choices."
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Everything stated above is well said and absolutely true. What would be the point of "Fixing" the votes when we could have just lied and said that we had so many votes noted to us to make a certain one work to our favor.
Max said it best above there, (and thank you again). Rallying your friends to vote is just what happens in situations like this. We know it doesn't seem fair but it tends to be more of a popularity contest more than an art contest when that happens. Which is why it would have been nice to keep things anonymous, but there is only so much we can do.
And again, yes, the rules were loosened on criteria for the submissions because there was a lack of any being submitted. When we decided to extend the deadline it was because we were holding only 3 submissions. Within that last 2 weeks we got the remainder of those to push forth and get something submitted. So we were actually lucky to have anything to have voted on at all. I know it's a hard truth, but furries are the worst when it comes to procrastinating. Hopefully in future years we will have lots more submissions, but as for now we kinda have to work with what we can get.
We don't want any drama over this, we really are just trying to be fair to everyone who posted an entry and I don't think it would be fair to the current winner, who was voted on by you all, if we told him that he is no longer the winner.
If anyone is truly stuck on a different design than the winning one, then we might be able to work something out. Place a special order with us or something prior to the con.
There is no need for all that drama and hoopla that went on in that last journal guys.
The only things that should have been posted there was, "Congratulations Acrux" (or something along those lines). But instead it was a mob with pitch forks...I mean really, how do you think that would make you feel if you were in his shoes?
-He said, and we quote:
"The voting was completely open to the public and at the mercy of the majority rule. Whether or not someone may or may not have prodded their friends to vote for a particular submission is a moot point. Being public voting, every submission is subject to the same treatment and it is at the whim of artists, their friends, fans of artists, fans of submissions, etc to call upon the public or people within their circle to vote for any one submission. Rallying people to vote is not "fixing" the vote; otherwise we may as well not bother voting for any presidents.
Regardless of such, any person prodded to vote for a submission are of their own free will to pick whichever submission they want. This is why it is called public voting. Or in other words, the con staff has no control of the winner.
It's entirely possible the rules were loosened on the criteria for the submissions because there was a lack of any. Just for example, in light of only 3 credible submissions, do you only vote on those three or do you open up the rules to allow more people a chance to win? How is the latter favoritism? Do you think they hand picked particular submissions to allow to slide? I believe it's more they slackened the rules to a point that they got enough submissions to have a variety of choices."
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Everything stated above is well said and absolutely true. What would be the point of "Fixing" the votes when we could have just lied and said that we had so many votes noted to us to make a certain one work to our favor.
Max said it best above there, (and thank you again). Rallying your friends to vote is just what happens in situations like this. We know it doesn't seem fair but it tends to be more of a popularity contest more than an art contest when that happens. Which is why it would have been nice to keep things anonymous, but there is only so much we can do.
And again, yes, the rules were loosened on criteria for the submissions because there was a lack of any being submitted. When we decided to extend the deadline it was because we were holding only 3 submissions. Within that last 2 weeks we got the remainder of those to push forth and get something submitted. So we were actually lucky to have anything to have voted on at all. I know it's a hard truth, but furries are the worst when it comes to procrastinating. Hopefully in future years we will have lots more submissions, but as for now we kinda have to work with what we can get.
We don't want any drama over this, we really are just trying to be fair to everyone who posted an entry and I don't think it would be fair to the current winner, who was voted on by you all, if we told him that he is no longer the winner.
If anyone is truly stuck on a different design than the winning one, then we might be able to work something out. Place a special order with us or something prior to the con.
There is no need for all that drama and hoopla that went on in that last journal guys.
The only things that should have been posted there was, "Congratulations Acrux" (or something along those lines). But instead it was a mob with pitch forks...I mean really, how do you think that would make you feel if you were in his shoes?
Food for thought.