well that's just for this one- there were others that were tainted in other ways - which brings us ( i think) back full circle to: Is there a way of this place running contests fairly. If so how and lets see if these suggestions in the other thread can be implimented. If not then maybe it's time to do away with contest- which would be a shame cause people like contests. It's also nice to see an artist elevated, but perhaps at this time it should be changed to "Renderosity's Administrative Choice Artist of the year"- And to me there is nothing wrong with that- after all, some businesses do have employee of the month, year etc etc so that would alleviate any laws being broken as far as contests go...the members would not get a choice but hey we don't have a choice now as it is. What would really be nice is some input from admin on this. All this pretty much covers this particular contest but what about the others that have been handled badly, not from the membership side but the admin side? ( photo contest swapping prize incident, emoticon incident, etc)