Tracey... you did nothing wrong! These contests have been going on for a long time and they were never stopped. The mods of each gallery are there to "moderate" what is going on in the galleries. If it is too overwhelming a job for them then Renderosity needs more mods. Plain and simple. They should not expect anyone to do more than they are capable of doing.

There should never be anything going on in the galleries that the mods are not aware of, and when they become aware of a problem it is passed on to TPTB... so I find it impossible to believe that everyone here was not aware that the contests were going on.

The saddest things I have read here are Tracey's tring to take responsibility for something that was no way, no how her fault, and the outright lie that no one knew contests were bring held. A little honesty goes a long way. Making statements like that makes us all sound like we are dumb enough to believe that...

Thankfully my few competition images were not deleted. I too am in Florida and one of my computers got damaged by one of the many electrical surges we have had recently. A surge protector gone bad (reminder to everyone to replace these every couple years) and I lost alot of my work. I intended to download all of my images on my new computer so I would have them but had not had time. Most of my images go in the galleries both here and at 3DCommune, but the competition images naturally were only here. If they were deleted I would have had no way to replace them...