August Photo of the Month Contest

[poidog]

Isnt potm suppose to b what we have?

+1

plus, are mods allowed to participate? I'm just saying!

 

[Pufferpunk]

I publicly announced before the deadline that I was having trouble uploading my pic & asked the Staff for help with the. Taking pics through glass is not the same at all as just through the water column. In the many reef forum contests I've entered, it just had to be a pic YOU took, didn't matter if it was your tank, a friend's tank or God's tank.

 

[ThisIsFishy]

I publicly announced before the deadline that I was having trouble uploading my pic & asked the Staff for help with the. Taking pics through glass is not the same at all as just through the water column. In the many reef forum contests I've entered, it just had to be a pic YOU took, didn't matter if it was your tank, a friend's tank or God's tank.

I guess the rules need clarification then. It should be something in your tank so there is proof it's your pic, even though without meta data the world will never know. Photo shop makes it easy to remove © and other ownership signatures from the pics.

For taking pics though glass you want the camera to be at a slight angle to the tank and have the glass as clean as possible. Shouldn't be any harder then through the water column if you know what you are doing.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Do you really think it's necessary to cheat for a $15 gift certificate??? Maybe folks should believe in others & that they are honest people, before assuming the worst.

http://www.chicagoreefs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1360

 

[poidog]

ok, this should only matter if there were prizes involved (if there is mod's can't enter)... and there isn't (or is there?), and this forum gets little activity.... so lets all move on. And if I uploaded my pics I'd beat you all! muwhahaha

 

[ThisIsFishy]

ok, this should only matter if there were prizes involved (if there is mod's can't enter)... and there isn't (or is there?),

There is. But moving on is good, it doesn't matter if the pic is hers or not, it was late so it got removed anyway. Back to work

Good luck Tengency!

 

[Pufferpunk]

Mods are allowed to enter any contest on any forum. Why not? No one knows who the pics are taken by.

 

[poidog]

conflict of interest

it's like that fine print at the bottom "employees, etc are exempt from entering said contest"

 

[ThisIsFishy]

conflict of interest

it's like that fine print at the bottom "employees, etc are exempt from entering said contest"

but the other mod did do the right thing and delete the disqualified entries! I kind of always though that moderators were around to moderate and not post much anyway. That's how it is on big forums I'm on.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Moderators have equal rights on any forum I'm on. They are depended on giving good advise & are picked because of their knowledge of the purpose of the forum before anything & to keep threads going in the right direction.

 

[poidog]

I encourage mods to post... they usually have a wealth of info to share.

 

[SaylorsReef]

+1 thisisfishy and poidog. I can't believe sum1 tried to cheat on this contest. Who posted that pic?

Jeni was not cheating. She posted publically in this thread that she needed help, before the deadline date.

As to the other photo that was submitted after the deadline date, I highly doubt that it was done intentionally. So lets all refrain from calling people cheaters.

In addition, mods are allowed to enter contests.

 

[SaylorsReef]

I guess the rules need clarification then. It should be something in your tank so there is proof it's your pic, even though without meta data the world will never know. Photo shop makes it easy to remove © and other ownership signatures from the pics.

The rules were clear. It had to be a picture YOU took.

 

[ThisIsFishy]

The rules were clear. It had to be a picture YOU took.

They probably were not. I was not the only one confused as you can see.

 

[SaylorsReef]

Post #4 in this thread:

Yep, but you must be the one who took the photo to submit it into the contest.

 

[ThisIsFishy]

Post #4 in this thread:

I saw that, it doesn't clarify whether or not the photo has to be of your tank. How hard would it be to write a rule statement at the beginning of every POTM contest or make a sticky?

 

[The reefer]

Well it should b of ur tank cuz not everyone has the opportunity to take pictures for the actual ocean.

 

[SaylorsReef]

Well it should b of ur tank cuz not everyone has the opportunity to take pictures for the actual ocean.

And for the September contest people will complain when they can't enter the contest because they don't have an anemone in their tank.

 

[The reefer]

No it's not that. It's just that it should b on what is in our tanks not in the ocean. Im not complaining cuz I don't have soft corals which I do but didn't feel like mine would win so didn't enter this time.. But if I found a pic on google and posted no one would know that it's not mine. U get me? If not we should have a poll here and ask everyone if they think potm should b what we have in our tanks . It's just an idea

 

[Jeff]

Oh My God!!!!!!