Not Cool Zoofan,Hi everyone.
It has been brought to my attention by several members that a certain someone has in fact been soliciting votes in order to guarantee their 100% attendance rate in the top five. This is not just speculation, as I have seen hard evidence of private messages that have been sent by members who have admitted to being coerced into nominating a certain thread. Usually I would keep matters like these private, but because of the public nature of this competition, I'm sorry but I have to call out @Zoofan15 for privately asking members to nominate his thread. Some may notice I've never stated that this is against the rules of this competition, and that's because this was already against general forum rules. As rule #16 clearly states...
"No Soliciting Likes or Recommendations - Soliciting of likes - requesting or suggesting that people like your content - or colluding with others to like each others content will result in likes being removed in bulk and potentially being banned from the site."
As a result of this, Bovine Import Review has been disqualified. The members who voted for this thread will not get the choice of nominating a replacement thread and only their other two submissions will be counted. Not that this changes much else, but no threads by @Zoofan15 are allowed to be nominated for the remainder of this years competition. To anyone who attempts to solicit votes in the future or do anything similar to privately influence the outcome, consider this your warning.
Come on now guys, this is just a fun little way to celebrate the community every year and all of the great ideas we've created and discussion we've accomplished. The only thing you win in this competition is digital bragging rights. If you're not confident your thread is good enough by itself to win, then it doesn't deserve to win. Hopefully this is the first and last time we will have to have a discussion like this.
Man, this would have been way funnier if this happened last year...
Not cool.
